Six Sartell students from Sauk Rapids-Rice High School were recognized along with 80 others and awarded certificates for perfect attendance during the 2014-15 school year.
They are the following: juniors Marcus Moldaschel and Nathaniel Stidmon; sophomore Chase Thompson; and freshman Jessica Denton, Rachel Taszarek and Jacqueline Yanez Nunez.
Three Sartell High School students (left to right) Alexis Winter, Lexy Oftedahl and Ryan Christle research a project funded by St. Cloud Federal Credit Union to give micro-loans to people in developing countries. Their teacher Roy Snyder launched the program to help students increase their financial and world knowledge and issues surrounding poverty.
SCFCU matches grant funding for Sartell High School financial education and micro-financing initiative
St. Cloud Federal Credit is proud to announce that a $2,500 grant submission to the Minnesota Credit Union Foundation on behalf of Sartell High School was awarded. The credit union also committed to matching the grant if it was awarded; the high school now has $5,000 to fund a financial education program focused on helping people in developing countries.
The social studies department of Sartell High School is now teaching Human Geography to create a lending curriculum to fund student-led micro-financing to people in developing countries around the world. Ninth-graders will create development plans for different parts of the world which will be presented to a panel. Finalized plans will result in research for micro-lending opportunities in those areas of the world selected. In turn the students will partner with Kiva, a global non-profit organization that helps people around the world alleviate poverty through small loans.
Sartell High School Teacher Roy Snyder researched and launched the program. Since the project’s inception, he has seen the students gain an immediate increase in financial and world knowledge and issues surrounding poverty.
“These are real life stories,” Snyder said. “The biggest thing I see is empathy and increasing understanding that helping is not about a handout but about a partnership. They are acquiring financial and world knowledge, confidence and skills to develop passion by having to present their findings that result in a real impact.”
Jed Meyer, president and CEO of St. Cloud Federal Credit Union, submitted the grant and committed to the matching funds. The credit union created a panel of experts the students will present to in order to help determine which countries will receive the grant money.
“We are really excited about this opportunity to help kids in our community,” Meyer said. “We care about improving financial education and this program accomplishes that for these ninth-grade students. In addition to the students, this program is improving the lives of people around the world and is an awesome opportunity we are extremely proud to be a part of.”
Most of the loans granted will be between $50 and $100 and will help the students with lending and collection knowledge in addition to global knowledge of developing countries. The payback of the loans will create a self-perpetuating program to be used by students in future years.
Nine Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minn.
They and their majors are as follows: Alicia Groth, nursing; Melodie Kabanuk Dohm, nursing; Tracy Karl, accounting; Mark Loscheider, exercise physiology; Margaret Minnerath, biochemistry; Mariah Moldaschel, health sciences; Jennifer Picken, health information management; Corinne Skoog, marketing; and Lindsey Tollefson, management.
Students must maintain a minimum 3.75 grade-point to qualify for this honor.
Brigid Brew, daughter of Doug Brew of Sartell, was recently named to the spring dean’s list at Benedictine College, Atchinson, Kan.
Students must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average of 3.5 to qualify for this honor.
Four Sartell students recently graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn.
They and their majors are as follows: Matthew Husmann, public accounting, magna cum laude; Krystal Kreutzer, psychological science, cum laude; Rachel Scharf, biochem and molecular biology, magna cum laude; and Amani Yassin, psychological science.
Callie Frank, Sartell, was recently named to the spring dean’s high honors list at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. Students must achieve a minimum 4.0 grade-point average to qualify.
Two Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s honors list at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall.
They are the following: Michaela Fassler and Carly Spoden.
Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify.
Two Sartell students were recently inducted into the national honor societies at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
They are the following: Katherine Nash, daughter of Vickie Nash and Don Dewitt, a Sartell Senior High School graduate, Beta Beta Beta (the national biological honor society); and Grant Wintheiser, son of Maria and Robb Wintheiser, a Cathedral High School graduate, Phi Beta Kappa (the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society).
Two Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
They are the following: Zachary Heim, College of Letters and Science, and Megan Murphy, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify.
Jared Baxa, Sartell, was recently named to the honor roll at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacology.Students must achieve a 3.25-3.749 grade-point average to qualify.
