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The High Honor’ s graduates featured on 13 pages in this edition have all achieved a grade point average of 4.0 or higher. The schools they represent are:
Students were notified of this honor by the schools after grades were tabulated. Be sure to congratulate them on this amazing distinction.
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The High Honor’ s graduates featured on 13 pages in this edition have all achieved a grade point average of 4.0 or higher. The schools they represent are:

Students were notified of this honor by the schools after grades were tabulated. Be sure to congratulate them on this amazing distinction.

Jack Bauer
Parents: Brenda and Matthew Bauer Town: Elk River 1. Highlight your involvement in high school classes and extra-curricular activities this past year.
Jack focused on pushing himself as far as he could go, taking 13 AP classes and on the side taking engineering courses like CAD. He tried a wide range of extra-curricular activities like speech and Choir, but finally found his home with robotics where he became captain of the team.
2. What was your most memorable high school experience? Why was it special?
Jack’ s most memorable high school experience was some of his first solos in the choir back in 9th grade with
Ms. Heinonen 3. What are your plans for the future?
Jack is going to Texas A & M to get a bachelor’ s in mechanical engineering and his masters in aerospace engineering. He’ s hoping to make use of his connections with NASA and hopefully spend some of his semesters working with the space program
Ella Hamilton
Parents: Stephanie and
Steve Hamilton Town: Elk River 1. Highlight your involvement in high school classes and extra-curricular activities this past year.
Ella Hamilton took three AP classes her senior year: AP Physics, AP Calculus and AP Literature and Composition. She also took online government and a painting class.
2. What was your most memorable high school experience? Why was it special?
Ella Hamilton’ s most memorable experiences were the ones she spent with her friends and teachers at school. She finds these moments special as they made her classes more
enjoyable and she’ ll likely remember them more than the actual class lessons.
3. What are your plans for the future?
Ella Hamilton plans to attend a community college for two years to stay close to home, then transfer to a four year college for a bachelor’ s degree. She is still unsure of what job she wants in the future but is leaning towards something math related.
Nick Rebrovich
Parents: Jeremy and
Sandy Rebrovich Town: Elk River 1. Highlight your involvement in high school classes and extra-curricular activities this past year.
Nick was involved in AP and honors classes all 4 years of high school while playing for the Elk River boys basketball team. This year, he was voted team captain, rookie of the year, and most improved player for the varsity team.
2. What was your most memorable high school experience? Why was it special?
Nick’ s most memorable high school moment was making it to the basketball section final this year.
3. What are your plans for the future?
Nick plans to attend the University of North Dakota to major in biology and go on to get his doctorate in chiropractic.