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Winners

View the current list of winners for this year’s Scholar of the Week program. The Scholar of the Week program is a partnership between Dakota News Now and your local Touchstone Energy Cooperatives that honors the region’s accomplished high school students. Each weekly winner receives a cash award from their local Touchstone Energy Cooperative and is featured on Dakota News Now. All winners are also eligible to receive one of the three scholarships that are given away at the annual Scholar of the Year banquet. Nominations for the weekly awards are submitted by area school principals and faculty, whose selections were based on excellence in the classroom and service in the community.

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Caleb Preszler

November 30, 2014 - December 6, 2014

School
Menno High School
GPA
4
Activities
Activities: Football, Basketball, Track, FFA, One Act Play, Student Council, FCA, National Honor Society, Chorus for three years Honors: Always have been on the Roll of Excellence, Selected for Governors Luncheon in 2013 Community Involvement: Numerous mission projects around town.

Caleb Preszler is from Menno, SD, located within Southeastern Electric Coop, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative.

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Chesney Arend

November 23, 2014 - November 29, 2014

School
Bridgewater-Emery High School
GPA
3.82
Activities
Volleyball Track Cheerleading Football Statistician Student Council President Oral Interp Drama Journalism National Honor Society FCCLA - Officer Band Choir Journalism

Chesney Arend is from Emery, SD, located within Central Electric Cooperative, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative.

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Sharon Folk

November 16, 2014 - November 22, 2014

School
Milbank High School
GPA
4
Activities
Volunteering at the Orphan Grain Train. Volunteer work at St John's Lutheran Church. Teach Sunday School. School Activities--Band, Choir, Oral Interp, debate, theater, FFA, Art Club. Member of the Milbank National Honor Society.

Sharon Folk is from Milbank, SD, located within Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative.

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Jonathan Linke

November 2, 2014 - November 8, 2014

School
Woonsocket High School
GPA
4
Activities
Band, Jazz Band, Winter Drumline, Choir, All-State Chorus, FFA (Chapter President-District IV President- State Star Green Hand-State livestock Winning Team), Student Council (President), National Honor Society Member, Quiz Bowl, Baseball, 4-H (Club President-State Fair Beef Premier Exhibitor), Junior Angus Assoc. Member, Modern Woodman of America Member, SD Farmers Union, St. Wilfrid's Youth Group.

Jonathan Linke is from Woonsocket, SD, located within Central Electric Cooperative, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative.

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Bailey Zerfoss

October 19, 2014 - October 25, 2014

School
Wolsey-Wessington School
GPA
3.9
Activities
Volleyball, Student Council President, Basketball, Warbirds Influencing Lifelong Decisions member, Football Stats, Interact Member, National Honor Society member, FFA Historian, Oral Interp Captain, HOSA parliamentarian, Track manager

Bailey Zerfoss is from Huron, SD, located within Dakota Energy Cooperative, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative.

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Colton Hageman

October 12, 2014 - October 18, 2014

School
Lake Preston School District
GPA
4
Activities
FB, BBB, Track, Math team, NHS, Annual, newspaper, student council, Swing choir, choir, band, marching band, basically everything we offer

Colton Hageman is from Lake Preston, SD, located within Kingsbury Electric Cooperative, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative.