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Awards and Achievements

Thompson Valley High School was named one of the top 1,300 public high schools in the country by Newsweek magazine. The magazine lists 1,300 top ranking schools based on a formula that includes the number of students who take Advanced Placement tests. The school was also listed in the magazine in 2006 and 2007. Only a small number of Colorado high schools were included on the list.

Berthoud High School student Becky Pope was one of 50 students nation-wide to receive a $20,000 Coca-Cola scholarship.

Thompson Valley High School senior Sarah Kay Hurst received a Boettcher Foundation Scholarship. She has received much recognition at TVHS for outstanding academic achievement, leadership and community service.

The Loveland High School Wind Symphony received the highest honor of Superior with Distinction in the state concert band finals at Colorado State University.

Latina magazine named Mountain View High School senior Jeanette Rojas one of five winners of their $10,000 Latina and Maybelline New York Opportunities through Education scholarship contest. There were over 900 applicants.

Becky Fuchs, art teacher at Lucile Erwin Middle School, received a Fulbright scholarship to Japan. Elizabeth Swanson, science teacher at Conrad Ball Middle School, received a Fulbright scholarship to India.

Loveland High School senior Sara Schwartzkopf received a full-tuition Martin Luther King Scholarship at the University of Denver. Out of 8,200 applicants for the DU freshman class of fall 2009, Sara was one of the top 16 students to earn such an honor.

Loveland High School world language and cultures teacher Toni Theisen was named Southwest Regional World Languages Teacher of the Year at the regional language conference in Salt Lake City.

Brianne Beemer, a senior at Mountain View High School, won the female Wendy's High School Heisman award for Colorado and advanced to the national competition. Each year, high schools select a male and female student to represent their school in the local, state and national competition which honors community service, athletic performance and academic performance. MVHS senior Tim Stumbaugh was a state finalist.

Conrad Ball Middle School was named one of three middle schools to be named a 2008 Colorado Trailblazer School to Watch. Schools to Watch is a joint project of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform and the state partnership team led by the Colorado Association of Middle Level Education.

Three district students made it to the final oral rounds in the state spelling bee sponsored by the Rocky Mountain News in Denver: Ian Collett from Lucile Erwin Middle School, Irina Huang from Conrad Ball Middle School and Alexandra Ward from Bill Reed Middle School. Out of 239 kids who sat for the written test, only 40 made it to the final oral rounds.

Teams from Truscott Elementary, Berthoud High School and Mountain View High School qualified for the Odyssey of the Mind World Competition being held in College Park, Maryland.

Thompson Valley High School student Marielle Butters received the National Merit Award in Visual Arts. Her artwork placed in the top 5% of 8,000 national high school applicants. Butters was also awarded the Colorado Regional Award in Visual Arts, recognizing her as one of the most accomplished artists to participate in Young Arts 2008 from Colorado. Butters also received the Marie Walsh Foundation Scholarship (only two students were chosen in Colorado). This was a working scholarship; she spent two weeks (all expenses paid) at Colorado College in Colorado Springs studying art with leading artists and high school student artists from all over the nation.

Teachers Linda Pfeiffer and Heather Flesner were inducted into the Colorado Academy of Educators of the Gifted and Talented and Creative in January. The Academy recognizes educators throughout the State of Colorado who have contributed to gifted education in meaningful ways.

Stacey Naughton, an 8th grade math teacher at Conrad Ball Middle School, received a regional Teacher of the Year award from the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Thompson Valley High School's girls track team won the Class 4A state title.

Berthoud High School's football team won the Class 3A state football championship.

The Mountain View High School girls volleyball team won the Class 4A state title for the third year in a row.

Diana Benkert from Berthoud High School was honored during the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention in November for her award as one of 24 National Teachers of Excellence. The award is sponsored by the Secondary Section of the NCTE and is based on evidence of excellent classroom teaching of English at the secondary levels.

Thompson School District earned the Certificate for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the U.S. and Canada. The certificate is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting. This is the 19th consecutive year the district earned the award.

Thompson School District won the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO International) Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting for its 2006 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. This is the 9th consecutive year the district has earned the award.