Shooting Stars 2013 Performing Arts

 

Shooting Stars 2013 is going to be a show you will not want to miss!

Anything You Can Do

Boogie Shoes

Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man

Celtic Storm

Dance Dance Dance

Do Re Mi

Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

Down to the River to Pray

Dragon

Fast Car

His Steps

Julie-O

Justin Bieber

Jr. Globetrotters

One Day More

So What if I am a Black Woman?

Somethin’s Got a Hold on Me

Stand Up of Bailey Shuford

Taylor Swift Medley

Temporary Home

The Four Violinists

The Gungor Music Collective

The Strife is O’er

The Way to Life

Wizard of Oz

 

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CONGRATS to 2013 Shooting Stars VISUAL ARTS Winners!!!

Samuel Broman-Fulkes, Parkway

Logan Brown, Parkway

Chy Bryant, WHS

Patrick Burton, WHS

Joshua Crenshaw, Parkway

Joel Crothers, Hardin Park

Cady Donadio, Cove Creek

Natalie Eggers, Bethel

Rebecca Eggers, Parkway

Kristina Foster, WHS

Maggie Furman, WHS

Khushbu Gosai, WHS

Megan Gottfried, WHS

Seth Greene, Bethel

Julia Handley, Valle Crucis

Kristen Jones, WHS

Caroline Lovins, WHS

Ellary Maiden, Cove Creek

A.J. Martinez, Bethel

Caleb Michael, Valle Crucis

Brielynn Myers, Hardin Park

Logen Norris, Bethel

MacKenzie Norris, Bethel

Cade Quick, Green Valley

Marley Robinson, Parkway

Ethan Rothrock, Hardin Park

Amber Parker, Green Valley

Alexus Potter, Green Valley

Jamie Schaller, WHS

Shaelyn Sheaff, Parkway

Bailey Shoeford, Valle Crucis

Olivia Souto, Parkway

Emily Steinbacher, Green Valley

Tucker Stone, WHS

Tiffany Tapanes, Green Valley

Michael Walker, Blowing Rock

Peyton Walton, Green Valley

Riley Warmuth, Parkway

McKenzie Watson, Green Valley

Samantha Watson, Parkway

Andie Waugh, Hardin Park

Madison Welch, Mabel

Kaitlin Winebarger, Green Valley

 

2012 Artwork by James Furman

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Shooting Stars 2013, Price Deverick Teacher Scholarships, & Kate Swift Reese Scholarship

Watauga Education Foundation is SUPER busy!!!

SHOOTING STARS
Mark your calendars for SHOOTING STARS 2013!
April 19, 2013 at Watauga High School

All the necessary forms for Shooting Stars 2013 are available on our website:   Shooting Stars 2013 Forms 

PRICE DEVERICK TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP   Applications are due February 15, 2013.  Price Deverick Application

KATE SWIFT REESE SCHOLARSHIP    Applications are now available!   Kate Swift Reese Educational Scholarship Endowment for Watauga County 2013 Application

 

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Shooting Stars 2013

Mark your calendars now for Shooting Stars which will be held April 19, 2013! If you are a student, it’s time to get your act together and start practicing or painting or otherwise preparing your entry. Individual schools will be hosting tryouts/talent shows, so check with your drama/music/band teachers to find out when you can audition at the school level. Each school will then send its winning acts to county auditions. These will be held on Tuesday, March 19th and Wednesday, March 20th at the Blowing Rock School.  

 

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Flap Jack Flip is Saturday!

Make plans to attend Watauga Education Foundation’s FlapJack Flip and Boone Service League’s Holiday Market on Saturday, December 1st from 8:00-11:00!     New this year~   High Country Local First is providing the food!!!!    Tickets are $5 per person.  Join us for great PANCAKES, coffee, milk, and juice!    Boone Service League will have lots of fabulous items for purchase–   jewelry, handmade bags, pillows, Christmas wreaths and trees, and more.   Santa will be ready for pictures with the kids!

We appreciate our SPONSORS:

 Spot Light Sponsors (over $1500)

First Citizens

Pathology Associates of Boone

Robbie Bridgeman, DDS

Frontier Natural Gas

Michael Mayhew, DDS

Wells Fargo

FlapJack Flip EVENT SPONSORS (over $300)

BB&T

Blue Ridge Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Western Carolina Eye Associates

Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff

Carroll Companies

Daniel Boone Inn

Weichert Realtors – Weber/Hodges Group

Lifestore

Reed Orthodontics

New River Tire

US Buildings

Andy Harkins Nationwide Insurance

Johnson Price & Sprinkle

Deal, Mosely, Smith

Walker & Divenere

Blue Ridge Electric & Blue Ridge Energies

Appalachian Management

Farm Bureau Insurance

Appalachian Innkeepers

Ronnie Jones Construction Co., Inc

MTMT Commercial Properties

And A HUGE THANK YOU to High Country Local First and the Appalachian District Health Department for providing the food!

            

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FlapJack Flip is December 1st!!!

Make plans to attend Watauga Education Foundation’s FlapJack Flip and Boone Service League’s Holiday Market on Saturday, December 1st!     New this year~   High Country Local First is providing the food!!!!    Tickets are $5 per person.  Join us for great PANCAKES, coffee, milk, and juice!    Boone Service League will have lots of fabulous items for purchase–   jewelry, handmade bags, pillows, Christmas wreaths and trees, and more.   Santa will be ready for pictures with the kids!

A raffle drawing will take place at 10:30 for the fabulous raffle packages.   To purchase raffle tickets, click HERE.

1)  Go Apps!  Two 2013 season tickets for ASU FOOTBALL and Four 2013-2014 season tickets for ASU BASKETBALL

2) Merle Fest  Two tickets for all four days for Merle Fest 2013   (value $560)

3) Disney!  Four one day park-hopper tickets (value $496)

4)  Dining Out! $40 Canyons, $40 Red Onion, $50 Vidalia, $40 Bistro Roca, Dan’l Boone Inn- Dinner for 2 , $40 Storie Street Grill, $40 The Game Keeper, $100 Mellow Mushroom, The Best Cellar & The Inn at Ragged Gardens one nights stay and $50 for dinner

5)  Adventure! Magic Cycles bicycle tune-up ($60), PING Nanotech Putter (from Elk River), Golf for 4 at Blowing Rock Country Club, Golf for 4 at Hound Ears Club, Golf for 4 at Linville Ridge, Golf for 4 at Boone Golf Club  (Mon-Thurs), $25 Mast Store certificate, Apparel from Appalachian Ski Mountain, Apparel from Farmer’s Sk

 

 

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2012-2013 Grant Applications Now Available

It’s an exciting time for the WEF when we review and award teacher grants.   It is our mission to support educators who foster a love of learning, and our vision to improve and enhance the success of every student in the Watauga School System.  That’s why, in the past ten years, we have raised and given away over $250,000 to teachers in the Watauga County Public School System.

Below you will find the 2012-2013 grant application.

Please submit to:

Watauga Education Foundation

PO Box 2658

Boone, NC  28607

or

info@wataugaeducationfoundation.org

September 15, 2012 is the Deadline!!!!

 

2012-2013 Grant Application in Word … click here.

2012-2013 Grant Application in PDF … click here.

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An Exciting Spring!

God Girls

What a great Spring for the Watauga Education Foundation!  Shooting Stars, our premier event, was the best one yet.  Each year, the performances and artwork get better and better and we feel privileged to provide the opportunity to our talented students.  Kudos to Wells Fargo Bank for their support, the Farthing Auditorium “crew” for their expertise, John Carter for emceeing and to each of you who attended.

 

Watauga Education Foundation

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Shooting Stars 2012

Act Name
 A Fiddle Tune
A Friend’s Lighthouse
Abbott and Costello Comedy Skit
All Your Life
Butterfly Fly Away – Kathryn Greene
Celtic Twilight
Country Clogger Duo
Fanny Pack
Gabriel’s OboeGod’s Girls
Jaidyn Toomey
Joy of Drums
Max the Magician
Paquita
Party Rock Anthem – Faith Ann Henson
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Rockin’ in the Free World
Shake it Up
Soul Shine
The Great Charlie
The Little Soloist
The Upside
This Little Light of Mine
Two Sisters
Vienna for a Friend

Wishing You Were Somehow Here

Yo-Yoing

 

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Shooting Stars Dates

Please visit our Shooting Stars page under “Events” on the right side for information, dates and forms for performing and visual Continue reading

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