Archive for the ‘RIS in the News’ Category

Regional Quiz Bowl Success for Riverstone Students!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Scott and I would like to send out our congratulations to the RIS Quiz Bowl team

for placing 4th at our regional competition today to advance to the

State Competition next Tuesday, March 16th.

Davis Gilton and Ian Cherny also won the prestigious all regional team

member awards (2 of possible 8 team members selected from over 80

students)!!

Please congratulate the team when you see them: Ian C.,

Davis G., Kylie P., Marin A., Remy N., Tatjana T., Will M., Ian R.,

Becca Q., Pragna N., Ryan S., and Paul M.

Our next competition is scheduled for Tuesday, March 16th and will include an all day seminar

series and competition set at Boise Center on the Grove.  As always,

please contact Scott or me if you have any questions.  Thanks for

sharing in our excitement!

Scott and Alex

NHD Success for Riverstone students.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Riverstone students continued their exceptional tradition in the National History Day competition this weekend..

This year’s competition was far larger than previous years with approximately 250 students competing from across the Treasure Valley. From that, Riverstone has 10 students advancing to the State competition on April 16 at the College of Idaho.

Individual Results were as follows (please congratulate these students if you see them):

Youth Individual Documentary – Jack Johnson, 2d place

Senior Individual Documentary – Roan Berg, 1st place

Senior Individual Papers – Regan Bell, 1st place, Lucas Macha, 2d

Place, Andrew Roan, 3d Place

Junior Individual Exhibits – Ava Macha, 1st Place (in her flight),

Mackenzie Roan, 2d Place (in her flight), Zach Snow, 3d Place (in his

flight), Maddi Nelson, 4th Place (in her flight)

Senior Individual Exhibits – (by flight)

Grace Guryan, 1st Place, Sarah Schaff, 2d Place, Elena Snow, 3d

Place, Emma Guzman, 4th Place

Reyada Atanasio, 1st Place, Asher Trapp, 2d Place, Alex Rose, 3d Place.

Congratluations to all the students, these results are remarkable.

Also, thank you to Andy Johnson for taking on the NHD this year and guiding our students through the process.

Andrew

Riverstone Students PSAT success

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Riverstone students in Grades 8 to 11 shone in their recent PSAT tests scoring well above national averages even compared to much older students. What is most remarkable is that 5 Grade 10 students would have earned National Merit Scholar status – unfortunately, they will have to wait until Grade 11.

PSAT GR 8

PSAT GR 9

PSAT GR 10 2009

PSAT GR 11 2009Andrew

Riverstone wins major awards

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

The “Governors Brightest Stars” awards ceremony was held on Tuesday November 10 at BSU.

The awards recognize “ordinary people doing extraordinary things to insure the vitality of Idaho communities”

This year a total of 67 organizations and individuals were nominated for the 6 major awards.
I am delighted to announce that Riverstone received two nominations in the categories of “School of the Year” and “student of the year” (Kylie P)

The awards ceremony was very well attended in the Simplot Ballroom at BSU with Governor and Lady Otter making the presentations.
Riverstone was very well represented by several teachers and students.

Now the big news……we won BOTH categories…School of the Year and Student of the Year!!!
Yes, Riverstone managed a clean sweep!

Thank yo to all of you who do so much for our community in so many ways. Riverstone is truly both and International School and a Community School.

Also, congratulations to Kylie P, who won the 2009 Student of the Year award.

Andrew

Brightest Star

The Trophy!

The Trophy!

Kylie Award

Kylie Award 2

Riverstone Team

Andrew

Bob and James

Boise boy’s ‘Star Wars’ wish wins a national award from Make-a-Wish Foundation

Friday, October 30th, 2009

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho, wish granters Riverstone One Stone Club, and volunteers from the Treasure Valley have been honored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America with it’s 2009 INFINITE WISH Award for Mitch’s wish project STAR WAITERS.  The INFINITE WISH Award is given to the chapter that involves a whole community in granting a wish and Mitch Kohler’s wish to be a movie producer and be in a STAR WARS fan film was chosen for the organization’s 2009 award from 13,600 wishes granted this year.

This is the second time in 5 years that a Riverstone One Stone Make-A-Wish project has been recognized with the national organization’s INFINITE WISH Award.  One Stone Executive Director Teresa Poppen said “It’s great! And I think it’s unheard of to be honored twice with this Award.”

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho Executive Director, Torene Bonner, and Program Services Director, Nancy Berry, received the award last week at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

Much credit goes to the One Stone students who poured their time and creative effort into this wish.  The wish movie was volunteer produced by Riverstone parent Ben Shedd and dozens of Riverstone families became part of Mitch’s wish when they joined the big Bollywood/Boisewood dance at the movie’s end, showing indeed “We are Fam-i-lee.”

Many Kudos to the Riverstone One Stone Club for its numerous service projects throughout the Treasure Valley and for this national recognition – for a second time – from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.

For the STAR WAITERS Riverstone One Stone team, volunteers, and dance families, there are now STAR WAITERS DVDs to say thanks to you for joining this community in making Mitch’s wish happen.  The DVDs are available at the front desks of both the Broadway and Warm Springs Campus.

The OneStone Team

The OneStone Team

Riverstone sets the academic standard!

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Riverstone received its ACT summary results earlier this week.

We are delighted to announce that yet again, the results demonstrate Riverstone’s commitment to academic excellence.

Percentage of students ready for College-Level work:

English Comprehension

State: 72%     National: 67%     Riverstone: 100%

Math

State: 45%     National: 42%     Riverstone: 100%

Social Science

State: 60%     National: 53%     Riverstone: 100%

Biology

State: 30%     National: 28%     Riverstone: 100%

Student meeting all benchmarks

State: 24%     National: 23%     Riverstone: 100%

These results come in addition to the world class IB results and our 25th place national ranking based on college level courses.

Andrew Derry

Dance Success for Juliana

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Last weekend, the International Grand Ballroom (IGB) dance competition took place in San Francisco with competitors flying in from all across the USA, Canada and Europe.

Riverstone graduate, Juliana Myhre representing Dance Necessities, Boise, danced away with a host of honors.

Juliana Myhre, dancing with Jessie Villalobos:

3rd place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Smooth Multidance Championship.

2nd place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Rhythm Multidance Championship.

5th place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Latin Multidance Championship.

Semi-finalists in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Standard Scholarship.

2nd place in the Pro/Am Closed Bronze Smooth Scholarship.

1 of the Top 20 World Pro/Am DanceSport Series overall students at the competition all weekend.

Congratulations to Juliana and Jessie!

Andrew Derry


Riverstone among top school in the country, press article.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

 click here to see the press article about Riverstone’s ranking among the tops school’s in the country.

Riverstone ranks among top schools in the country

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Newsweek released its annual public school rankings earlier this week. The rankings use an index that basically divides the number of AP courses taken by the students this year by the total number of graduating students. 

 Click here to see Newsweek list of the top 500 school

Unfortunately, Riverstone was not permitted to be part of the study as an independent school. However, it is worth noting that Riverstone’s index is 5.97 for 2009, placing it firmly at 25th place across the entire USA.

Congratulations to all of our IB students for such an achievement.

 

Andrew Derry

Riverstone scientists in the news!

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Riverstone International School scientists make the news!

Alex Ide, Head of Science, and his Gd 11 IB biology group were part of a group of student studying Boise river water quality this week.

Click here to read the article in the Statesman

Click here to view video

click here to listen to NPR story

Click here to see Boise City press release:   release-nsf-wq-testing-final-web51

 

Andrew Derry