Education

The Oldham County Dollars for Scholars program, funded by local businesses and organizations, distributed 64 scholarships to 51 recipients, worth about $63,000 to local high school seniors Monday. Oldham County Dollars for Scholars scholarship donors and recipients include:

• Buckner Elementary PTA, $500 scholarship to Edward Brady, an OCHS student planning to attend Wittenberg University to study biology and marketing/international studies;

Oldham students named to dean’s list at University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky recently recognized several students from Oldham County named to the dean’s list for the fall semester.  Students from Pewee Valley named to the dean’s list include Kelli Brewer, a sophomore studying pre-accounting; Samuel Brewer, a junior studying economics; John Malueg, a sophomore studying undergraduate studies; Abby Shields, a freshman studying undergraduate studies; John Siegel, a sophomore studying undergraduate studies; and Jenna Smialek, a sen

The Pyramid Awards are teacher grants sponsored annually by the Oldham County Educational Foundation.

For 2009, OCEF distributed $15,437.24 to fund 16 projects at 10 schools.

Academic team members from all Oldham County middle schools and St. Aloysius recently competed at South Oldham Middle School during the district Governor’s Cup competition, an event sponsored by the Kentucky Association for Academic Competition.

The Governor’s Cup features eight events, including future problem solving, quick recall, written composition, and five subject-area written assessment tests.