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Of the 20 students named to the 2021 Norfolk Daily News All-Academic Team, 12 topped their class in grade-point average and 15 had ACT scores of 33 or better — including one student who scored a perfect 36 and another with a 35.
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Northeast Community College will celebrate the success of its graduates this month. The college will hold six commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 21, and Saturday, May 22, in the Cox Activities Center on the Norfolk campus.
WAYNE — More than 600 degrees were awarded to graduates during two separate commencement ceremonies at Wayne State College on Saturday.
OMAHA — At the University of Nebraska at Omaha May commencement at Baxter Arena in Omaha, graduates included:
KEARNEY — Graduate and undergraduate degrees were conferred for 685 spring graduates at University of Nebraska at Kearney commencement exercises last Friday and Saturday at UNK's Health and Sports Center.
LINCOLN — The University of Nebraska–Lincoln conferred a record 3,594 degrees during commencement exercises May 7-8.
Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) is accepting applications for the 2021-22 Third District Youth Advisory Council and encourages high school sophomores, juniors and seniors to submit their applications by July 15.
(Grand Island) — Central Community College honored its graduate candidates May 7 during its commencement ceremony.
Graduation festivities in Northeast and North Central Nebraska started this past weekend for many schools — including Lutheran High Northeast, Norfolk Catholic and Wayne State College. Click through the photos to get a glimpse of the ceremonies.
Lutheran High Northeast recently celebrated its prom on April 16. Two students were selected for prom royalty. The theme was “Rustic Romance.” Grant Colligan was named prom king, and Chloe Spence was named prom queen.
Norfolk Catholic High School recently celebrated its prom on April 23. Prom king was Ethan Pinnt (left), son of Roy and Laurie Pinnt. Prom queen was Taylor Kautz, daughter of Chris and Kelli Kautz.
Norfolk High School celebrated its prom on Saturday. The event was the first prom since 2019 because last year’s prom was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. There were seven candidates for prom king and queen.
KEARNEY — A student from Hartington is among 10 students being recognized by the University of Nebraska at Kearney with the Mary Jane and William R. Nester Student Leadership Award.
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Photos of graduating high school and college seniors are still being accepted for a special graduation edition next month.
Howells-Dodge Consolidated Schools recently won the top prize in a national popcorn-based education challenge from the national Popcorn Board.
Wayne State College will hold three graduation ceremonies on Saturday, May 8, to celebrate graduates from the Class of 2020 and 2021.
Northeast Community College has recently landed on several rankings lists among other schools around Nebraska and the U.S. that offer trade education and online associate’s degrees.
A number of employers recently met with potential future employees face-to-face at a career fair on the Norfolk campus of Northeast Community College.
About 60 students at Northeast Community College have qualified for membership in the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), Tau Chi Chapter.
While some might not understand Horton and its noisy, calculated moves, the robot has a mission — to dominate competition while spreading STEM awareness throughout the Norfolk community.
For 10 weeks, students at Lutheran High Northeast prepared to perform “Footloose” as their spring musical. That hard work paid off as the students strutted their stuff for family, friends and more during performances in Norfolk.
Norfolk Catholic Players presented three performances of Disney's “Aladdin Jr.” earlier this month at Johnny Carson Theatre in Norfolk.
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