FINDLAY, Ohio — Kiley Clinton of Cabot was awarded the Ritz Memorial Scholarship for 2014-2015 at the University of Findlay.

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INDIANA — The following students were recognized as Provost Scholars at Indiana (Pa.) University:

Butler: Brooke Balliet, Jacob Christensen, Shannon Kovalchick, Taylor Kriley, Katherine Miller, Alisa O’Donnell, Alison Rykaczewski, Bradley Swartzlander and Sabrina Turner

Cabot: Sarah Tapling

Cranberry Township: Alyssa Appleba, Daniel Crum, Melanie Dunbar, Hannah Huber and Edward Kremmel

Ellwood City: Katlyn Plotzer and Tamra Recce

Emlenton: Michaela Sullivan

Freeport: Marina Fox

Grove City: Brittany McCord

Harmony: Andrew Reubi

Parker: Taylor Armstrong

Rimersburg: Heather Anthony and Matthew Curry

Sarver: Jason Gurski and Tyler Singer

Saxonburg: Brooke Armahizer, Emily Doran and Brooke Laidlaw

Slippery Rock: Kate McIlwain

Worthington: Sarah Malarik

Provost scholars are juniors at the start of the fall semester who have a minimum of 45 semester hours earned at IUP and a cumulative GPA 3.5 or higher.

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JACKSON TWP — The Seneca Valley Academic Games Team competed in the Propaganda tournament held earlier this month.

In Propaganda, players identify techniques of persuasion used by advertisers, politicians, editorial writers and others.

Haine Middle School (HMS) teams placed first, second and fifth. They also had eight national qualifiers, who scored in the top fifteen percent of the students who competed in the tournament.

The first place team was Beniafer Sepai, Anoop Savio, Parker Louge, Zach Garcia and Renhan Xu.

The second place team included Ananya Rao, Megan Bablak, Dilini Ranaweera, Arya Nayak and Brenna Wrubel.

The fifth place team was Dora White, Nate Trost, Jack Veverka, Jason Hartenstein and Matt Murphy.

National qualifiers for the Propaganda tournament were Parker Louge, Zach Garcia, Megan Bablak, Anoop Savio, Brenna Wrubel, Dilini Ranaweera, Arya Nayak and Matt Murphy.

Evans City Middle School also had four national qualifiers, Derek Wessel, David Choi, Rob Appling and Kaitlyn Moore.

Seneca Valley Middle School (SVMS) seventh and eighth graders who qualified in Propaganda include Tori Beck, Ben Hess, Connor McDonald, Ani Ponugoti, Kate Scanlan, Jonathan Simoes and Brian Vogel.

In the junior division, Lucy Geronime also qualified for nationals.