Gulf Pine Catholic

Gulf Pine Catholic • March 22, 2019 23 Spotlight on Schools Collection March 30 & 31 A small portion of collection pays for this advertisement. The Mississippi Economic Council and its M.B. Swayze Foundation sponsor the Student-Teacher Recognition Program in an effort to encourage scho- lastic achievement among the state’s high school students. The STAR Program has two specific pur- poses: 1. Emphasize scholastic excellence and encour- age greater scholastic effort among Mississippi stu- dents. 2. Recognize the teaching profession. To be eligible for the STAR student honor, a stu- dent may be a regularly enrolled senior or an approved dually-enrolled student in an accredited public, private or parochial school and/or an accred- ited post-secondary institution. The student must be completing his/her last year of work and must be eligible to receive a diploma in the current school year. The student must have an overall ACT compos- ite score of at least 25 and an overall average of 93 or above in selected subjects in the ninth, tenth, elev- enth and first-semester twelfth grades. Student: Jordan Pete Teacher: Mary Lawson Student: Amelie Million Teacher: Amber Buckley St. Patrick Catholic High School, Biloxi St. Patrick Catholic High School is proud to announce that four students have been named 2019 Student-Teacher Achievement Recognition Program (STAR) students and four teachers have been named STAR teachers, listed below. Student: Max Grill Teacher: Gail Trahan Student: Stephen Azar Teacher: Susie Tavel SPCHS Senior Chad Hudson signed his National Letter of Intent to join the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Soccer Team on Friday, March 8. In front of a large crowd of friends and family, Chad committed to becoming a Bulldog at the MGCCC Perkinston campus.