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Congratulations Katie Mullen!

Drawing By Katie Mullen

Junior Katie Mullen has been accepted to the Precollege Visual and Performing Arts Workshop at Oregon State University that takes place this summer. The program is called JumpstART and students will participate in a very rigorous program, focused on fine arts.

Katie will be taking classes in painting and graphic design. This program is highly competitive, and out of the whole state, only 30 students are selected! Not only was Katie accepted into the program, but she was also awarded the Alexander/Friends scholarship based on her portfolio.

Excellent work Katie!

Congratulations Rose!

Congratulations to Rose on coming in 2nd place in the Teen Jeopardy Tournament. We are so proud of you!

2011 Alum Keegan Rogers

Portland Christian High School Alum (2011) Keegan Rogers will be returning for a second season with the Portland Timbers U-23s team as goalkeeper. Rogers also plays collegiately for Western Washington University.

PCHS Concert Choir Participates in Festival

The Portland Christian High School Concert Choir participated in the NW ACDA High School Choral Festival. They were adjudicated and were one of three schools to receive Honorable Mention. Samantha Ruiz participated in the Solo division of the competition and was chosen to perform in the Command performance.

ECE Receives State Designation!

Portland Christian Schools Early Childhood Department has been awarded the


prestigious Oregon Program of Quality (OPQ) Designation!

The OPQ process enhances and recognizes the quality of child care programs, resulting in a state designation as a quality program. Portland Christian Schools Early Childhood Department participated in the first OPQ statewide-cohort. To achieve the designation, we had to meet research-based standards for program quality, including collaborative family partnerships, child development and learning, highly qualified personnel, health and safety practices, developmental environments, and effective administration and business practices. Rhonda Rogers, PC's ECE Program Director and Elementary Principal remarks:

"Portland Christian Schools Early Childhood Department is very proud and excited to have achieved OPQ Designation for our child care program. We have always strived to provide excellent child care services to children and families of our community. We know that quality really makes a difference for children and everyone benefits from being held to a high standard."

Continuing Ed. at Grand Canyon University

Grand Canyon University is proud to offer teachers, staff and parents of CCSC member schools an exclusive 10% discount toward tuition for bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree programs. Click the link below to view more details in their provided PDF or visit them online at gcu.edu/ccsc.

Former Teacher & Coach Tom West Awarded

Former teacher and coach Tom West has been selected as the 2011 Oregon High School Coach of the Year for Girls Basketball. This is a major recognition considering ALL levels , 1A-6A coaches can be nominated for the award. Tom's achievements as a basketball coach are tremendous and this Thursday night (1/26), immediately following the girl's varsity basketball game, we will honor Tom for this award. Please consider coming to the game at Multnomah Univ. to stand and applaud a brother who has served
so well.

Alumni Named All-American

2007 Portland Christian graduate Shawn Evans was named as a First Team All-American in football for his accomplishments at Lewis and Clark College as a Tight End. Shawn was a three sport athlete at Portland Christian. In the 2006-2007 school year, he was instrumental in sending the Football team to the State Semi-Finals, the Basketball team to the State Playoffs, and the Track team to a 3rd Place finish at State.

2008 graduate Kim Hill was named AVCA First Team All-American
for her accomplishments at Pepperdine University as Middle Blocker.
To read more about her outstanding performances at PC and Pepperdine,
visit the link below.

Senior Crystal LeFebvre Awarded

Portland Christian High School is pleased to announce that the National Merit Scholarship Program has awarded senior, Crystal LeFebvre, as a Commended Student for her outstanding performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying test in 2010.

Crystal is one of 50,000 students who are the highest scorers in the nation on the PSAT exam. 16,000 of those students have been designated as Semifinalists and will continue in the competition and the remaining 34,000 high performers are named Commended Students -- for which Crystal is being recognized.

We are very proud of Crystal's academic success on the PSAT and with her studies here at Portland Christian. She is a model student and we anticipate great success in her future collegiate studies.

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