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AMY PARTAIN

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February 16, 2018  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. The 2018-2019 school year is bringing some fun new, or returning, courses to the line-up at St. Mary’s High School. These offerings include several fine arts courses and the return of French. Offering fun and informative electives is all part of St. Mary’s mission to educate the whole student.
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February 2, 2018  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. Sometimes success comes with being presented the right opportunities. Alexander Hamilton is a prime example, achieving great things thanks to the generosity of sponsors who provided him an education he couldn’t have accessed without financial assistance from generous benefactors. Now St. Mary’s High School is providing similar opportunities to students through its new Hamilton Scholar program.
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January 19, 2018  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. Last January, hundreds of Catholic students in the Colorado Springs area converged on St. Mary’s High School for Embrace Vocations Day to learn more about discerning God’s will for their lives as they continue their faith journey. St. Mary’s is again hosting the diocesan-wide Embrace Vocations Day on Jan. 30, with this year’s theme being “Discernment and Calling: How Do I Live Out God’s Plan?”
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December 15, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. Each December, St. Mary’s High School honors grandparents when they are invited to join the student body in celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. This year the multi-generational group gathered in the school gym on Friday, Dec. 8, for Mass, which was followed by a reception for the grandparents.
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November 17, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. Sydney Burtwistle’s 17th birthday was a memorable one; that day she landed in Rome for her first trip overseas. Two days later, she and her family were scheduled to go to the Vatican where they would meet Pope Francis. While exciting, the trip was bittersweet for Sydney and her family, who were invited to the Vatican so the youngest member of the Burtwistle family, Olivia, could be blessed by the Pope. Olivia was diagnosed with Juvenile Batten Disease in 2011, just two months shy of her eighth birthday.
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November 3, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. When Mike Biondini retired from the Widefield School District after 31 years, he wasn’t sure what interests he would pursue. He was working toward joining an investment group when he heard that St. Mary’s High School had a counselor position open. Interested in the possibility of returning to his alma mater, Biondini applied for the position and began working at St. Mary’s.
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October 20, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. In the span of life, the four years spent in high school can seem small. Yet the impact that those four years can have on a life is far from insignificant. Each October St. Mary’s High School recognizes former high school athletes for their contributions on the field by inducting new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame and new teams into the Exemplary Sports Team Enshrinement. And each year, the inductees note the positive impact that their high school experiences had on their lives.
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October 6, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. Living out the Catholic faith means working to make the world a better place. That goal aligned perfectly with the Future City competition, which one St. Mary’s High School student participated in all three years of middle school. Not only did the competition teach Alex Baburnic, now a sophomore at St. Mary’s, to look for physical ways to change the world, but it gave him the confidence that he could succeed in doing just that.
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September 16, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. High school is a time to investigate interests. This year students at St. Mary’s High School have more areas of interests in science to explore, thanks to three new semester-long classes. During the fall semester, marine biology and nuclear chemistry were added to the course catalog. In the spring semester, a new microbiology class will be added.
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September 1, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. St. Mary’s High School is a family united by community. St. Mary’s Golf Classic is a great way for the Pirate community to not only renew relationships, but to support current and future Pirates as well. The 41st Annual Golf Classic is set for Sept. 18 at the Kissing Camels Golf Course, 3320 Mesa Rd., in Colorado Springs.
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August 18, 2017  |  By AMY PARTAIN
COLORADO SPRINGS. The Project Lead the Way (PLTW) engineering program at St. Mary’s High School will be fully in place this fall with the addition of the fourth course completing a highly successful four-year roll out. The PLTW engineering program strengthens St. Mary’s already strong STEM (science technology engineering math) offerings.
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