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News from LWGMSCongratulations to Iris and Shannon M., winners in the 2008 Jacob Friedman Writing and Art Contest. Congratulations to Naomi, winner of the Teachers Against Prejudice, Middle School Division, second place award. Students from all over the United States entered their essays that discussed a movie or TV show that raises awareness of discrimination and prejudice. Congratulations to Jena, winner of a City of Seattle Mayor's Scholar Award. Each year only twenty of these awards are given to middle-school "unsung heros" -- responsible and generous community members who give to society and lead by their examples. Congratulations to Sarah, who has been accepted into the Physcian Scientist Training Program at Temple University School of medicine in Philadelphia. The primary purpose of this program is to "prepare brilliant minority students for biomedical research careers." Congratulations to eighth-graders Patricia and Audre for winning the 2008 King County MLK Student Essay Contest! Patricia and Audre are quoted in the P-I in an article about local MLK Day celebrations. See the King County website for a description of the award and this year's celebration.
Seton and Daisy act like typical sixth graders. At least they giggle a lot.
For the second year in a row, LWGMS sixth-graders took two top spots in the
Jacob Friedman Holocaust Creative Writing Contest 2007.
Mimi Jaffe and Thea Jensvold-Rummage won
LWGMS student Molly Tollefson (class of 2008, below, far left) entertains Pulizer Prize-winning playwright
Suzan-Lori Parks (far right)."Last month RVYT [Rainier Valley Youth Theater] students, staff and teachers had an amazing experience with 365 Plays/365 Days Seattle - we got to perform for the author herself, Suzan-Lori Parks! "
"Seattle P-I: Local students won't let us ignore the genocide in Darfur." "Jamie Keene of Lake Washington Girls 
Middle School already was committed to the cause when
she heard about the march this week. The sixth-grader has been studying genocide in her
humanities class ..."Read the full article in the Seattle P.I., April 28, 2006 Out of more than 200 entries in the 2006 Jacob Friedman Holocaust Creative Writing Contest, essays by Jena and Camille received top honors – Camille was awarded second place and Jena third place. They were recognized at the Washington State Holocaust Education Center's Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony on Monday, April 24th. Congratulations Jena and Camille! Talia won first runner up (8th grade) and Jena won first runner up (sixth grade) in the Seattle Storm Women in Sports Essay Contes. Read their essays on the Storm website. Congratulations, Talia and Jena! Read all about it in the Seattle Times and the Seattle P.I. – LWGMS students were  awarded the first
and second prizes in the county-wide King County Civil Rights Commission's essay contest honoring Dr. Martin Luther King.
Congratulations, Lena and Maya!
LWGMS students are karate students and travellers, too. Listen to Patti discuss Rites of Passage on KUOW's The Conversation |
But their worlds are very different. 
first and second places.
Congratulations for carrying on the school tradition, Mimi and Thea!
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