Christion Doan is one of several students who debuted artwork at ProDeo Youth Center’s inaugural showcase, Structures, Sketches, & Strokes: The Story of Us, last Friday.

Thank you to Miss Wheelchair America 2020 Hilary Muehlberger, of Greenwood, for visiting with the Lee’s Summit North girls tennis team last week. Hilary shared her story of finding adaptive tennis after a spinal cord injury in a 2015 car accident.

She’s a Lee’s Summit North art student who makes fonts in her spare time and is considering a career in graphic design. LSR7 caught up with senior Annie McCord, the 17-year-old the ProDeo Youth Center tapped to design its marketing materials for its August fundraiser, “Structures, Sketches and Strokes: The Story of Us.

They debated in a simulated Congress, and performed in ten-minute plays. They delivered speeches they wrote themselves, and engaged in debates after learning the topic 30 minutes ahead of time.

Lee’s Summit R-7 high schoolers had an impressive showing at the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Dallas, Texas late last month, with several competitors placing in the top 30. The event is the premier competition for speech and debate students, many of whom have already had stand-out performances at local and state events.

Eleven students in the LSR7 French program from each high school spent the first two weeks of their summer vacation in France with teachers Madame Caitlin McKinney (LSN) and Madame Bess Hayles (LSHS).