Chesapeake Contest Awards $16,000 To Local Schools

Through their "Discovering Tomorrow's Leaders" program Chesapeake Energy Corporation awarded $16,000 to area schools, recognizing young leaders in our community. Students in Bossier and Caddo parishes were recognized for their outstanding service in organizations such as 4H and FCA.

Beginning on February 14, for eight weeks one student from Caddo Parish and one student from Bossier Parish were selected by the Alliance for Education to be recognized in front of a group of their peers for demonstrations of leadership in a nonprofit organization like 4H or FCA. Each winning student was featured in The Shreveport Times and on Kiss Country radio and the winning student’s school received $1,000 for equipment or technology supplies.

Weekly Winners:
Caddo Parish
Kendrick Thomas – home school
Ryan Kinel – C.E. Byrd High School
James McCain – Northwood High School
Myracle Harris – Booker T. Washington New Tech High School
Joseph Woodley – Loyola College Prep
Allyssia Clayton – Judson Fundamental Magnet
Katlin Reames – Huntington High School
Jessica Thigpen – Calvary Baptist Academy

Bossier Parish
Tiffany St. John – Haughton Middle School
Kendall Orms – Benton Elementary School
Camryn Weems – Stockwell Place Elementary School
Chelsea Feducia – Parkway High School
Erin Molineaux – Plantation Park Elementary School
Brent Wroblewski – Rusheon Middle School
Cayleigh Phipps – Cope Middle School
Kylie Moore – Benton High School

At the end of the contest, a final banquet was held April 24 for all the weekly winners and two from each parish were randomly chosen to win a new laptop computer.

From Left to Right: Camryn Weems, and FCA member from Stockwell Place Elementary School; Chelsea Feducia, a member of SADD from Parkway High School; Joseph Woodley, a volunteer for Operation Support Our Troops from Loyola College Prep and Thomas Kendrick, a volunteer for Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission who is home schooled.