Daniel Pacurar is not quite positive when he first became a Christian, but he knew it when it happened because he felt God's presence, and he knows that God certainly listens to his prayers. Dan's goal for the future is to attend vocational school to become an auto mechanic.
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Shawna Palmer moved from California two years ago and began school with Academy Northwest. Homeschooling provided Shawna with the freedom and flexibility to visit family in California and travel to Mexico and Hawaii. Last summer, Shawna traveled to Tuba City, Arizona as part of a mission to a new church on the Navajo Indian Reservation. This great experience consisted of helping with the church's construction projects, roofing a house and building a porch for an elderly lady, and gathering free wood for the community. Her favorite activities are going to Kane Hodder shows, creating scrapbooks, traveling, and visiting old friends in Utah. After graduating, she will be moving to Utah temporarily to work and be with friends, and then it's back to sunny California.
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Emily Parsons has been a gymnast longer than a student. When not in the gym, she enjoys shopping and having fun like most normal teens. Her enrollment in Academy Northwest has enabled her to travel around the country during competitive seasons of gymnastics. Being a competitive gymnast involves long hours of practice, but Emily has not been alone in that process. God, her parents, coaches, friends, physical therapists, doctors, and trainers have all helped her stay motivated to do her best and work through every hard situation, including a torn right Achilles tendon in the summer of 2002. As devastating as that seemed at the time, less than a year later she completed her best season ever, winning state, regional, and national championships. This fall Emily will attend the University of Nebraska on a full gymnastics scholarship and a New Nebraskan Academic scholarship—which should save the athletic department a little bit of money.
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Sergey Pavlov is seventeen years old, and over the course of his life he has traveled, had fun, played around, met people, and done stupid stuff! He loves being outside, playing a variety of sports; during the winter he snowboards with family and friends. He plans to go to college to major in business management. Someday, Sergey hopes to own his own company.
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Erick Peirson doesn't have a lot of time to spend on hobbies between school, eating, and sleeping. However, he has managed to fit a few things into his twisted schedule. He plays both the guitar and the electric bass, a bit of piano, and a mean radio, and co-founded the experimental weirdness band "The Amazing Coelacanth." He currently owns and operates a Linux-based web server and is in the process of constructing a Beowulf super-computer using obsolete PCs. He also writes for a local church newsletter, and contributes to various other media-related projects. During the summer he hopes to land an internship with a local newspaper or magazine to keep his skills honed, and to keep his pockets from imploding. The current plan is to take a year off between high school and college, partly because he is exhausted, and partly because he is a bit young to do the college thing right away. He is, however, considering getting involved with YWAM overseas.
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Brett Pemberton
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Mary Pop enjoys the one-on-one learning environment and has learned so much more since starting classes with Penny three years ago.
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Julia Poronko works at a local restaurant, and also a couple of hours a week at a gym, which allows for her to work out for free. When Julie first enrolled with Academy Northwest, she was behind in her classes, but with the help of her teacher, she soon caught up. Julie is thankful for Mrs. Collier's availability to help her, even though she assigned a lot of homework at times.
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Kellsie Rasler choseAcademy Northwest because she wanted to graduate from high school because a diploma will give her more opportunities in the future. She was not able to graduate from public schoolsince she was ill and missed too much school in her senior year. She did not want to return because she felt too old, and she did not learn well there. She feels she learns better if she can concentrate in her own way, and home school allowed her to work one-on-one with her teacher and do homework at her own pace.She believes Academy Northwest really works well for someone like her with learning problems.
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Rosario Rieger was encouraged by her aunt and uncle to get a head start on college, so by attending Academy Northwest, Rosario was able to take a couple of courses at Mount Hood Community College. She plans to continue with her college courses, and while not sure what she wants to study, Rosario is interested in attending a fine arts school to study films.
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Seth Riley considers himself to be a friendly, likable nerd, who enjoys writing humorous short stories, working on a novel called Liberate St. Peter, making people laugh, listening to music, dreaming about sports cars, working with computers, and playing rock guitar. He completed his first two years of college with honors as a Running Start student, and was recently accepted to the University of Washington with distinction where he will pursue a degree in English. Eventually, Seth hopes to share his Christian worldview and convictions with a large audience through novels and theological books. He is also entertaining thoughts of starting a band on the side. However, on a more practical level, Seth is considering using his English degree to work in business and possibly marketing, or becoming an English professor at the community college level.
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Timothy Roberson was born in Nacogdoches, Texas, but was raised, and is currently living, in Hinesville, Georgia. He enjoys classical piano, contemporary Christian music, and orchestral music. He is working part-time as a laboratory technician in a local doctor's office, and is also a full-time employee as a gymnastics instructor at the Liberty County YMCA. Timothy, a National Piano Playing Association member, is accepted at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee where he will work towards becoming a physician's assistant and continue to advance his piano abilities so that he can become a full-time piano player for his church.
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Breanne Roche
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Madeline Roerig
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Ryan Ross enjoys golf, music, baseball, working hard and socializing. His philosophy is "There's a lot of money to be made, and I want some of it."
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Paul Rovianek has attended Academy Northwest for all of his high school years. Home schooling has given Paul the opportunity to travel and to live with a family in Guatemala for two months. He is currently working toward his Certified Toast Master in Toastmasters. He has played soccer for Horizon Christian School, and this year made 1st Team Mountain West Conference. Paul's passion is snowboarding. He competed on the Summit Snowboard Team varsity squad, placing 1st in the state of Oregon four years in a row. He also placed first in slopestyle, and second in bordercross for the State of Oregon. Paul is now building his first house and will be backpacking in Europe in the fall. Winter semester Paul will begin his college studies in Portland working on a business degree.
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Katherine Ryan is the first one in her family to graduate. Her hobbies include riding quads with Kenny and taking her dogs on walks with Austin. She plans to attend cosmetology school. Katherine thanks her family and Mr. McDicen for not giving up on her. She loves you guys!
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Joseph Ryba 's hobbies include riding motorcycles, working on cars, and installing car audio systems. He has held a part-time job throughout high school. While working he has held honors and high honors and lettered in soccer during his senior year. Joseph is unsure about his future school career plans, but he thinks he would like to attend school in the fall to learn more about auto mechanics. Joseph was baptized on April 18, 2004 and he thanks God for helping him through everything. All that he has done is because of Him, and it is His will as to what Joseph will do with his life.
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Andrea Sanchez works fulltime at Starbucks, likes to snowboard, dance, and go shopping with friends. She is very unique and fun to be around and plans to attend Bellevue Community College before transferring to a four-year university
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Jesse Sanders plays basketball, watches sports on T.V., and is especially interested in creative writing. Jesse plans to attend community college for a couple of years before transferring to the University of Washington.
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Callie Schneckloth has spent the past three birthdays with her youth group on mission trips to Mexico. In past years, she has helped build three houses; this year, she will teach vacation Bible school. Callie coordinates activities for her youth group, works at the UPS store, and models for the Shelter Clothing Company snowboarding line. This September, Callie begins school at the Gene Juarez Academy of Beauty.
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E. Schoenberg is a very hard worker: intuitive, smart with a great sense of humor, and loves cars... especially his own! He has a great group of close friends and spends as much time as he can with them. His career goal is to pursue a degree in architectural engineering and eventually own a high-end construction development company.
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Christina Schultz likes horses, music, and trucks. She would like to move to Everett, Washington or Cody, Wyoming. Her career choice is to become an auto mechanic.
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Maria Schwager is deeply involved in her church and youth group. To those who know her, she is best associated with art, history, writing, swimming, poetry, opera, singing, dance, traveling, and the theatre. She especially favors drawing and painting and has received several 4-H and other awards. She has also participated in several drama classes, performing in skits and plays. Often you can find Maria up late at night listening to opera, going wild with her imagination, and putting it on paper. She has received poetry awards and is currently working on several stories. Maria plans to attend college in the fall, taking some basic courses in dance, drama, art, and writing. Then she will see what God's will is for the future.
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Jeremy Seeley would like to rebuild or restore an old car for fun and fix up his own car, for real. He is interested in attending a technical school to prepare for a career in the computer programming industry in the area of games, or a career in audio tech for concerts.
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Meagan Seymour enjoys spending time with her friends and participating in her church youth group. Next summer she plans to go on a mission trip to South Africa. In the fall of 200,5 she plans to attend Great Lakes University in Michigan to prepare for a career as an x-ray technician.
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Breanna Sharp , with her bubbly personality, has been a cheerleader all through high school and during her junior year, she was a competition cheerleader for the Pacific Storm Senior All-stars. Basketball is another one of the sports she enjoys, earning an honorable mention in her senior year as well as other awards in her past years of playing. She enjoys snowboarding in the winter and volunteering in the summer as a camp counselor for Camp Berachah as well as helping out at the Everett Food Bank. Breanna is planning to further her education by attending college in the fall.
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Tanya Shavlovsky came to America at the age of two via Austria, Belgium, and a three-month pit stop in Rome while waiting for permission to proceed. She enrolled in Academy Northwest, in part, so that she could help out in her father's café. While there are some things about public school that she misses, there are also highlights to her current educational path—such as graduating early, and being able to focus more on God and the way she should be living.
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Megan Shulke took classes at Lower Columbia College through the Running Start program. In her spare time she hangs out with friends, creates scrapbooks, reads, takes hip-hop dance lessons, and participates in youth group activities. She also plays sports at the local public school in Castle Rock. In high school she earned four varsity letters in both volleyball and track. During the winter of 2003, in conjunction with a mission trip, she spent eighteen days experiencing the culture and touring the sites of London, Spain, and Morocco. This summer she plans to go to Mexico on a youth group outreach to orphans. Megan hopes to earn a degree in business administration from one of the Christian liberal arts schools located here in the Pacific Northwest, with Seattle Pacific University her preferred choice.
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