The Sterling Scholar Region finals for the Southwest Region were tonight at the Cox Auditorium at Dixie State University. Jaiden won Runner-Up in her category of Speech and Drama!! Jaiden is our third child to be represent their high school as Sterling Scholar (Janika was the FACS Sterling Scholar for Tuacahn High School and Jase was the Math Sterling Scholar for Snow Canyon High School). Jaiden is the first one to win a place at Region.
I dropped her off at the University this morning at 9:15. They had a practice for tonight and then provided lunch for all of the candidates. Then they changed their clothes and had their interviews. The Speech and Drama candidates were asked to prepare a 3 minutes monologue (or monologues). Jaiden did the song "You've Got Possibilities" for 90 seconds and a monologue from Blyth Spirit (using an English accent) for the other 90 seconds and then had the interview for 7 minutes. She said that she felt like it went pretty well!
They had free time from 3:45 to 5:15 and Rick was working at the Institute and brought her home to change, eat dinner, and get ready for tonight. We enjoyed the ceremony and were excited that Jaiden won runner-up! There were only three who won from Snow Canyon High School. Xavier Pinna got Runner-Up in the General Category and Kirstin Carter won Region Sterling Scholar in Music. The music winner performs at the ceremony and Kirstin played a beautiful number on the violin. Jaiden's friend, Ruby Ludlow, (also a winner in the the Distinguished Young Women Program) won Region Sterling Scholar in her area of Social Science! (She is pictured with Jaiden in the bottom left corner of the collage).
As Runner-Up, Jaiden will receive a $200.00 check from her school district and a deposit of $1000.00 will be put into her University account. She already has a full tuition scholarship, but hopefully that money can be applied to school fees or other expenses. Rick and I took her out for ice cream afterwards. Congratulations, Jaiden!! (And I feel like I deserve some of the credit also for the many hours I spent helping her prepare for this!!)
Jaiden
Jensen was the winner of the Distinguished Young Women scholarship competition
for Southern Utah and the first runner up in the state of Utah, winning the
categories of Interview, Self-Expression, and Talent. She has been involved
with student council from elementary school all the way through high school and
is currently serving on the Executive Council as the Activities Representative.
Along with student government, Jaiden has also been involved with drama,
madrigals, choir council, national honor society, dance company, and tumbling,
all while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. She has been involved with numerous theatrical
productions and was recently seen as SpongeBob in The SpongeBob Musical
at Snow Canyon High School.
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