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CONTRIBUTED Rancho Tehama SERRF Expanded Learning Program students participated in Coins for Kindness during the Great Kindness Challenge Week, the last week in January. Rancho Tehama Elementary School and its SERRF program made it a collaborative effort to raise money. Donations collected will be used to send children to Camp Kesem, a free summer camp for children who have a parent or grandparent battling cancer. RANCHOTEHAMA SERRFstudents learn about kindness CONTRIBUTED Richfield SERRF has started its annual Go Out For A Run, or GO FAR, program. Students are encouraged to run and complete a race at the end of the 10weeks. The program is designed to help students learn to live a healthy lifestyle by choosing healthy foods and regular exercise. Pictured are students Clay Ricci and Filipe Diaz. RICHFIELD SERRF students learn about running California State Univer- sity, Chico will host the 2017 CSU, Chico Student Research Competition 5:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7 in Colusa Hall, Room 100. The interdisciplin- ary competition will give students the chance to showcase their scholarly achievements and creative work while getting the feedback needed to fur- ther fine-tune their pre- sentation and communi- cation skills. Now in its 31st year, the competition is open to un- dergraduate or graduate students who are currently studying at the University. CSU, Chico graduates who received their degree in the spring, summer or fall of 2016 are also eligible to en- ter. The contest "offers stu- dent participants a rare opportunity to polish their work and hone their ora- tory skills in preparation for a public presentation to an audience of peers, fam- ily, faculty mentors and faculty judges," said Sha- ron Barrios, interim dean of the Office of Graduate Studies and coordinator of the competition. The event is divided into sessions based on disci- pline—encompassing the sciences, business, engi- neering, education and the arts—as well as by class standing. Student com- petitors have 10 minutes to present their research to a faculty jury and gen- eral audience, followed by a short Q&A. The students will be judged on criteria includ- ing clarity of purpose, ap- propriateness of method- ology, interpretation of re- sults and the value of their research or creative activ- ity. The student presenters will also be judged based on their ability to articu- late their research, their ability to effectively an- swer questions and how well the material being presented is organized. Cash prizes will be awarded to the outstand- ing presenter and the run- ner-up in each category in the undergraduate and graduate divisions. As many as 10 local winners will be selected to compete at the presti- gious systemwide compe- tition on April 28—29 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, "where they will compete against hundreds of stu- dents from across the 23 CSU campuses," said Bar- rios. Participation in the broader CSU event "offers our students a chance to showcase their own excep- tional work before a bigger audience. Every year, their success at this event adds luster to our campus' rep- utation as a quality edu- cational institution," said Barrios. Maria Olson, a master's student in Communica- tion Studies, participated in last year's local compe- tition. She presented her research about the com- munication that occurs between international stu- dents and their college ad- visors. "I suspected there was a skillset that was required in order to be an effective advisor with international students," said Olson, who also believes it is possible for every advisor to learn those abilities. "I thought some of [the skills] were innate, but that some of them could be learned," said Olson. Olson said being ex- pected to clearly explain her research to people from outside her discipline made her think in new ways. The process "really pushes you to your bound- aries, of being able to jug- gle your presentation and your thoughts and your motives with being cohe- sive and clear," said Olson, who said she was awarded second place in her group last year. CHICO STATE Students to present research at competition Simpson University named more than 200 stu- dents to the Dean's List for the fall 2016 semester. The following local stu- dents were named to the Dean's List: April All- wardt of Red Bluff, Pre- Nursing; Madison Cambra of Cottonwood, Psychol- ogy; Kara Goff of Cotton- wood, Music; Chelsey Jau- regui of Red Bluff, Biol- ogy; Zane Medeiros of Red Bluff, Business Adminstra- tion; Autumn Poole of Red Bluff, Pre-Nursing; Jacob Price of Cottonwood, Eng- lish. To be eligible for the Dean's List, a student must have a semester grade-point average of 3.50 or higher. SIMPSON UNIVERSITY Local students named to the Dean's List The Red Bluff Garden Club is again offering up to three $1,500 scholar- ships to Tehama County high school seniors who will graduate in 2017. Applications are avail- able from counseling cen- ters at Corning, Centen- nial, Los Molinos, Red Bluff, Mercy and Salisbury high schools, or write to PO Box 8393, Red Bluff. The deadline for the appli- cations is Friday, March 24. The scholarships are available to students with a grade point average of B or better, 3.0 out of 4. Students who plan to pursue a career in any field related to horticul- ture or related environ- mental sciences, such as botany, conservation, natu- ral resources, plant aspects of agriculture, entomology, floriculture, forestry, soil or crop science or urban plan- ning, are eligible for these scholarships. Community support of the garden club's Holiday Boutique and Green Sale every December, as well as donations, are the primary funding for the scholarship program. The scholarship has been named the Red Bluff Garden Club Inc. Lorna Bonham Memorial Schol- arship. Bonham was a long time member of the club and advocate for students and gardening who passed away in 2015. The club is more than 50 years old and provides many community proj- ects, programs and events. Meeting are held at the Community Center the last Tuesday of each month, of- ten featuring guest speak- ers or special projects. In- terested people are invited to attend and consider join- ing. You can find the club on Facebook. GARDEN CLUB Sc hol ar sh ip s o ff er ed t o gr ad ua te s By John Hanna TheAssociatedPress TOPEKA, KAN. Kansas' highest court on Thurs- day ordered the state to in- crease its spending on pub- lic schools, which could fur- ther complicate the state's dire budget problems and increase pressure to undo large tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. The unanimous state Su- preme Court ruling gave the Republican-controlled Legislature until the end of June to enact a new school funding law. Lawmakers were already working on one and considering raising incometaxcutstohelpclose projected budget shortfalls totaling more than a $1 bil- lion through June 2019. Brownback said in a statement that lawmak- ers have a chance to pur- sue "transformative educa- tional reform" and called for new school choice mea- sures, without being more specific. The court did not spec- ify the size of a school fund- ing increase, fueling debate over how much lawmakers mustboostthestate'snearly $4.1 billion in annual aid to its 286 school districts. At- torneys for four school dis- tricts that sued the state over education funding in 2010 said the increase must be at least $800 million, but lawmakers didn't immedi- ately accept the figure. "We'll be like the prover- bialchickenonaJunebugif the state tries to do it on the cheap," said Alan Rupe, one of the districts' attorneys. Many moderate Republi- cans and Democrats in the Legislature favor rolling back the large income tax cuts enacted in 2012 and 2013, which the conserva- tive governor pushed as a way to stimulate the econ- omy. The state has strug- gled to balance its budget ever since, and even some Republican voters have come to view the tax cuts as a failure. Lawmakers last month approved a bill that would have increased income taxes to raise more than $1 billion over two years, but Brownback vetoed it. He fa- vors raising cigarette and li- quor taxes and business fil- ingfees,alongwithinternal government borrowing and other accounting moves. 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