Shyanna Halfaday

ESCANABA — Nah Tah Wahsh PSA senior Shyanna Halfaday has been selected as the Daily Press 2025 Student of the Year.

As Student of the Year, she 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.”

Shyanna is featured on the Student of the Week page — page 12A of today’s Daily Press. Student of the Year finalists were: Dixie Morris – Big Bay de Noc School, Hope Varoni – Bark River-Harris Schools, Mary Hook – Escanaba High School, Lucy DeGroot – Gladstone High School, Marcel Raiche – Holy Name High School, Alexia Slater – Manistique High School, Deziray Casey – Mid Peninsula School, Hoyt Shinnaberry, Delta-Schoolcrat ISD, Madison LaCrosse – Rapid River, and Madalynn Corrigan – North Central High School.

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