EVSC Foundation presented ten checks totaling $116,282 to each of the EVSC’s five high school principals and athletic directors in the corporation during tonight’s School Board meeting, from sponsorship proceeds of the L.E.D. scoreboards at each of the five multipurpose complexes.

The funding is used as building leaders deem appropriate, for a variety of projects and needs at each school.  Some of the things that have been funded through these monies include: classroom strategies for interactive learning, response to intervention services, student memberships in a variety of organizations, senior honor roll luncheon, student travel to academic competitions, and a class set of Advanced Placement textbooks.

Students at Daniel Wertz School on Evansville's west side are in the middle of a war-- a penny war!

Today students attended a kick-off assembly for their Pennies for Patients program.  For the next two weeks they're being asked to bring in pennies for the Leukemia Society.  That money will benefit patients with leukemia or lymphoma.

This year the school's goal is $350.  Each class is competing to see who can bring in the most pennies.  The winning class will get to celebrate with a pizza party.

More than 600 University of Southern Indiana students are eligible to participate in two Fall 2012 Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, December 8, in the Physical Activities Center (PAC) on the USI campus. Of those, five will graduate summa cum laude, 29 magna cum laude, and 50 cum laude.

Students in the College of Business and Pott College of Science and Engineering will receive degrees in a 10 a.m. ceremony. Doors to the PAC open at 8 a.m. Students in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, College of Liberal Arts, and Division of Outreach and Engagement will receive degrees at 1 p.m. Doors open at noon.