Tag: award
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Columbine High School graduate honored as top Navy recruit
By O’Dell Isaac A Colorado native was recently honored as the top graduate of her class at Navy basic training, according to a news release. Airman Apprentice Bailey Burke, a 2025 graduate of Columbine High School, earned the Military Excellence Award, presented by the Navy Club of the United States to the recruit who exemplifies…
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Feds award $75 million to Entegris for tech firm’s new $600 million Colorado Springs manufacturing center
Entegris, the Massachusetts-based supplier of electronic materials for semiconductor makers and other industries, is slated to receive $75 million from a federal program designed to boost the nation’s chipmaking capacity — money that would support construction of the company’s state-of-the-art, $600 million manufacturing facility being built in Colorado Springs. The company and the U.S. Department of…
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Colorado Springs teacher honored as Red Cross Hero for resuscitating stricken athlete
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Laura Smith, a science teacher and athletic trainer at Widefield High School, is being honored for saving the life of a teen athlete who collapsed during a soccer game. But Smith is uncomfortable with being referred to as a hero. She has trouble even saying…
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Colorado Springs teacher honored as Red Cross Hero for resuscitating stricken athlete
Laura Smith, a science teacher and athletic trainer at Widefield High School, is being honored for saving the life of a teen athlete who collapsed during a soccer game. But Smith is uncomfortable with being referred to as a hero. She has trouble even saying it. “I don’t think of myself as…that,” she said. “I…