Education notes News-Chronicle Rachel Evans, Vienna Trindal, Emily Valine, Janelle VanderKelen and Courtney Lawyer, Green Bay home-school students, emerged as national finalists for the National History Day event June 15-19 in College Park, Md., following a statewide competition May 3 in Madison. The group won in the junior group performance category with their presentation of "Babies in the Mill: The Crusade Against Child Labor During the Industrial Revolution." Pulaski High School students Leslie Curran, Kyle VanDenLangenberg and Lindsay Woodbridge have been named commended students in the 2003 National Merit Scholarship Program. Commended students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1 million students who entered the 2003 competition by taking the 2001 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Several De Pere High School students were the best in their competitions from all schools in attendance at the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Tech Challenge May 1. Those who earned Star Scholarships receive $300 toward a full-time enrollment in an NWTC program. First-place winners received gold medals. The categories and winning students were: word processing I - Alyssa Daul, Brian Drewiske and Jon Kordes, all receiving Star Scholarships, and Jenna Gerke, Samantha Nivens and Tanya Wollenberg, all first-place winners; word processing II - Alicia Ehlen, Star Scholarship, and Jenni Collette, first place; PowerPoint - Alyssa Daul, Elizabeth Olewinski and Jenna Lindgren, all receiving Star Scholarships, and Brian Drewiske, Sarah Hettmann, Stephanie Karner and Justin Linzmeier, all first-place winners; Excel - Brian Filyes, Star Scholarship, and Eric Lentz, first place; keyboarding five-minute timings - Alyssa Daul and Jenna Treml, both Star Scholarship winners; proofreading - Jon Kordes, Star Scholarship; machine calculation - Tanya Wollenberg, first place; anatomy/physiology - Maggie Ridder, Star Scholarship, and Sarah Geissler, Kendall Yates, Miranda Plier, Kacy Pasterski, Hugh Leasum, Amir Jazqyeri and Kyle Hager, all first-place winners; chemistry - Kevin Denis, Lauren Higgins, Amir Jazqyeri, Ashley List and Sarah Stellpflug, all first-place winners; general science - Amir Jazqyeri, first place. The De Pere High School business education department has named the business students of the month for April. The winners include: business basics - Caitlin Enright, Joe Faulds and Holden Healy; personal typing - Kayla Janssen and Megan Lee; information processing - Ashlee Reinke; computer applications II - Alyssa Daul and Jon Kordes; office technology - Brian Drewiske; business procedures - Jenni Collette; accounting - Kait Kavalkovich; international business - Whitney VanVonderen; English IV - Andrea Marino and Jeni Wasson; marketing careers - Jeremiah Johnson; marketing I - Riley O'Connor; marketing II - Nick Instefjord. The Brown County Home Builders Association has announced the winners of the 40th annual home plan competition. The winners are: CAD I architectural design by computer - Carrie Mleziva, Luxemburg-Casco High School, first place; Ryan Klarner, Bay Port High School, second place; Caroline Abts, Preble High School, third place. CAD II architectural design by computer - Kelli Johnson, Luxemburg-Casco High School, first place; Luis Vasquez, Preble High School, second place; David Vanden Avond, Preble High School, third place. Diane Adler of Green Bay won the Faculty and Staff Scholarship from Marian College. She is majoring in social and behavioral sciences and was honored at the college's annual Student Recognition Banquet.