Lake County briefs
Concerts at Stevenson
The Stevenson High School music department will host band and choral concerts featuring students from Stevenson and area junior high schools this month. The Consortium 125 choral concert will begin at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26. Additionally, the Consortium 125 band festival is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27. Both concerts will be held in Stevenson's performing arts center, at 1 Stevenson Drive in Lincolnshire. Admission is free.
Candidate fundraiser
Residents of Wauconda Township are invited to the Wauconda Township Team Campaign Kick-off on Thursday, Jan. 29 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, 515 S. Main St., Wauconda. Meet Legendary Chicago Bears players Dan Hampton and Glen Kozlowski, as well as the candidates running as the Wauconda Township Team. The candidates are: Glenn Swanson, incumbent candidate for township supervisor; Pat Oaks, incumbent candidate for assessor; Joe Munson, incumbent candidate for highway commissioner; John Amrich, incumbent candidate for trustee; Mary Taylor, candidate for clerk; and Lorraine Jankowski, Mary Schorr and Ron Richards, candidate for trustee. For more info, contact Swanson at (847) 533-6975.
122 schools to compete in Spelling Bee
Students from 122 public and private schools will compete in three spelling bee contests next month. Four finalists from each sectional competition held on Feb. 24, 25 and 26, will move on to the Lake County Final Spelling Bee at the College of Lake County on Mar. 17. One final winner will win a trip to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. on May 27. For more information, contact Roycealee J. Wood, Regional Superintendent of Schools at (847) 543-7833.
IMSA team tops in contest
A team of students from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora earned the highest ranking possible at the 11th annual High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling, which attracts teams from all over the world. The team - comprised of Jessica Durden of Lake Barrington, Bohao Liu of Schaumburg and Ilya Nepomnyashchiy and Justin Troyka, both of Carol Stream - was one of only four, out of 270 teams competing, that earned the ranking of "national outstanding." A second IMSA team received the "regional outstanding" commendation. The contest gives participating teams 36 hours to solve a mathematical modeling problem. IMSA's top-ranked team had to build a mathematical model to help understand the national debt and make forecasts based on different taxing and spending scenarios.