Elementary student winners of January Optimist Super Citizen Awards were recognized recently.

The Lee's Summit Noon Rotary Club presented its March high school student of the month awards.

Summit Lakes Middle School students recently captured awards in the Optimist Club Oration Contest.

Sam Chinnery, a seventh-grader at Summit Christian Academy, qualified to compete in a national spelling bee May 12 in Washington, D.C., by capturing the recent Association of Christian Schools International Regional Spelling Bee in Dallas.

Princess Pride, Sir Brags-a-lot, and their curious band recently led Summit Christian Academy families on an amazing trek in a faraway land as the fifth-grade class presented the musical "Happily Ever After."

MCC-Longview’s Kappa Tau chapter of the Phi Theta Phi international honor society recently received high awards at the Missouri Regional Conference in Jefferson City.

The Rotary Club of Lee's Summit presented its High School Student of the Month awards for the month of February to, from left, Amanda Steele and Yesen Zhou of Lee's Summit High School, Lynne Pierce and Dallas Woods of Lee's Summit North, and Jenna Klausing and Seth Gilgus of Lee's Summit West.

Seven students from Summit Technology Academy advanced to the third round of competition as part of the CyberPatriot IV Open Division.

Kelly Lamb of Lee’s Summit was named the February Student Leader of the Month at the University of Arkansas.

Summit Christian Academy will be hosting the Third Annual Eagle Egg 5K Run/Walk at 9 a.m. March 31.

Two local students were named to the fall-semester dean’s list at Columbia College Chicago. They are Bret Hamilton, a film and video major from Greenwood, and Jessica Woska, a fashion business major from Lee’s Summit.

Five distinguished alumni will be inducted into the Lee’s Summit High School Hall of Fame on April 14.

Three Lee’s Summit R-7 School District high school seniors recently were selected for the 2012 Missouri Scholars 100, a statewide program that honors 100 of Missouri’s top academic students in the graduating class of 2012. Students will be recognized at a luncheon in Columbia on April 29.

Students in the Lee’s Summit High School DECA marketing program recently participated in district competition, with nine qualifying for the state contest March 18-20 at Lake of the Ozarks.

The Physical Education Department at Pleasant Lea Middle School selected the High 5 winners for January. Winners, pictured from left with PLMS principal Janette Miller, were George Harding, Most Improved Seventh-grader; Courtney Goth, Outstanding Seventh-grader; Erica Ripley, Outstanding Eighth-grader, and Sam Nelson, Most Improved Eighth-grader. The school's Partners In Education, Lee's Summit Medical Center and Mazuma Credit Union, sponsor the awards. They are designed to promote academic excellence. Lee's Summit Medical Center presents each winner with $10 Target gift cards, and Mazuma Credit Union presents gift cards for Sonic.