Schools - Oakdale - Lake Elmo Review

Students from Blessed Virgin Mary School on Kennard Street in Maplewood, after fundraising for a teacher with cancer, raised money to pack cancer kits for patients at Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater June 10.

Eagle Scout Jack Murray, an alum of Transfiguration Catholic School on 15th Street in Oakdale, completed his Eagle Scout project through designing an outdoor class and flexible space at the school.

Third graders from Eagle Point Elementary School on 15th Street in Oakdale learned about engineering at The Works Museum in Bloomington June 5.

Skyview Middle School and Maplewood Middle School students participated in a Project Citizen event at the capitol May
15. Students made presentations in front of officials, including District 43 Sen. Chuck Wiger. 

North Dakota State University awarded Oakdale’s Thomas Jackson with the Presidential Honor Award Scholarship. The
$12,000 scholarship recognizes students who scored a 29 to 31 on the ACT and had high academic achievement. Jackson

The Minnesota Masonic Charities’ May 1 announcement of its 2019 Scholarships Program recipients included a Maplewood student. 

The North St. Paul - Maplewood - Oakdale School District was awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Association of School Business Officials International.

North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District nutrition services supervisor Paula Pohlkamp represented the Minnesota School Nutrition Association at the 47th Legislative Action Conference in Washington, D.C., Feb. 24-26.

The Tartan High School knowledge bowl team of Josh Marchetti, Adam Wersonske, Cade Severson, Alex Lopez and Sam Meyer finished in fourth place out of 120 metro teams.

In a Jan. 18 press release, Hill Murray School on Larpenteur Avenue in Maplewood announced it received a $3.2 million gift from alumni. It’s the second largest gift in school history.