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Johnson is Student of the Year

ESCANABA — Bark River-Harris High School senior Kaylin Johnson has been selected as the Daily Press 2017 Student of the Year. The daughter of Erik and Diane Johnson, she is ranked first in her school’s senior class and has a cumulative 4.0 GPA. She plans to attend Ferris State University in the fall to study English with a minor in business.

Johnson has been an active student at Bark River-Harris. She has been a member of the cheer team since junior high. She is also a member of the golf team and is active in the school’s music department. She is a two-year member of the National Honor Society and has been class vice president since her sophomore year. She often volunteers in the preschool and first grade and has been a Sunday school teacher for two years.

Johnson has been dual-enrolled at Bay College since her junior year.

As Student of the Year, Johnson will receive a $1,000 monetary award from the Daily Press.

The Student of the Year program kicks off with Student of the Week in the fall, where students are selected by their schools for the weekly recognition in the Daily Press. At the end of the school year, each school selects a finalist among graduating seniors who were picked as Students of the Week throughout the year. The finalists were instructed to write an essay on why they should be chosen as Student of the Year.

“We love having the opportunity to honor so many of the area’s talented students in the Student of the Week program,” said Daily Press Editor Brian Rowell. “We’ve had the Student of the Week program in place for a number of years now, and we feel honoring these deserving students is an important part of what we do here at the paper. It’s great to know that we have so many exceptional young people in our community.”

Johnson is featured on the Student of the Week page — page 8A of today’s Daily Press. All other Student of the Year finalists will receive $100 monetary awards.

Student of the Year finalists were: Caitlin Sefcik – Big Bay de Noc School, Rhyan Murtha – Gladstone High School, Josh Simmons – Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District, Abby Schwartz – Manistique High School, Sarah Hanson – Mid Peninsula School, Seth Polfus – North Central High School, David Welling – Nah Tah Wahsh PSA, Rhiley Hubert – Rapid River High School, Hannah Nygaard – Escanaba High School.

Schools that participate in the Student of the Week program are Bark River-Harris, Rapid River, Big Bay de Noc, Mid Peninsula, Escanaba, Student Success Center, Gladstone, Bark River-Harris, North Central, Nah Tah Wahsh PSA, Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District, and Holy Name.

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