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Honors from A1
Charter University of Salt
Lake City Utah, is a pro-
gram for high school stu-
dents who want to become
physicians or go into med-
ical research fields. Invita-
tion is by academic nom-
ination only and students
must have a minimum 3.25
GPA to attend.
Nobel Laureates, lumi-
naries and experts in their
field will be in attendance
to inform and guide stu-
dent delegates.
Kassity, who’s main-
tained straight As since
middle school, has long
held a special affinity for
the sciences.
“I’ve always been really
interested in the science
field. I love science,” she
said.
While attending a STEM
(Science, Technology, En-
gineering and Math) camp
at Oregon State University
last year, Kassity’s passion
for the subject made an
impression on one of the
supervising educators. It
was enough to prompt the
supervisor to submit an ap-
plication for Kassity to the
program.
When Kassity got the
nomination letter, she
could barely control her
excitement.
“My parents weren’t
home, so I’m freaking out
waiting for one of them to
come in the door,” she said.
“Pretty sure I tackled my
dad saying, ‘Look at this, I
got a letter from Harvard
and it says I get to go to
Boston for a medical con-
ference.’ I was so excited.”
Kassity’s
letter
was
signed by Dr. Mario
Capecchi, science director
of the National Academy
of Future Physicians and
Medical Scientists and
winner of the Nobel Prize
in Medicine. The letter
states she had been chosen
to represent Oregon based
on her “academic achieve-
ment, leadership potential
and determination to serve
humanity in the field of
medicine.”
The event’s stated pur-
pose is to honor, inspire,
motivate and direct the
top students in the country
who aspire to be physicians
or medical scientists. Af-
ter the event, the program
promises to provide a path-
way and resources to help
them reach their goal.
“I will get to meet with
Nobel prize winners. …
there are multiple kids who
are actually my age who
have won Nobels,” said
Kassity. “I get to watch a
live surgery, which is super
amazing. It’s crazy. I’m hop-
ing it’s a cardiac surgery be-
cause that is so cool.”
The event also gives stu-
dents tools to carve out a
direction for themselves.
“It’s to help the kids get a
mentor to help them reach
their goals,” said Alicia,
Kassity’s mother. “Espe-
cially if you’re female, it’s
really hard to get in to the
science area.”
The mentors will be
people who are experts in
their field, Nobel Laureates
and teachers from Boston
University. Delegates will
be able to choose from the
daunting list of mentors —
and more than one if they
desire.
The three-day confer-
ence will feature presenta-
tions by people represent-
ing a vast array of fields
including biology, geneal-
ogy, engineering, bionics,
oncology, chemistry and
many others.
a full schedule of hobbies.
“I’m a cheerleader and I
hunt,” she said.
As a full-time cheerlead-
er, Kassity cheers during
football season, basketball
season and participates in
competitive cheerleading
in the summer.
Academically,
Kassity
has yet to find her specific
calling, however.
“I do want to do some-
thing in the medical field,
but I haven’t really quite
decided,” she said.
Right now, Kassity’s fa-
vorite class in high school
is chemistry.
“It’s so fun to learn, do-
ing all the experiments”
she said. “I love, mostly, the
teacher. Because she treats
us like adults. … That’s
something you don’t often
get. I mean, there’s lots of
teachers to treat you like
adults, but then don’t speak
to you like adults.”
Alicia is hopeful the
mentorship and insight
gained from her trip will
equip Kassity with some
ideas for her future.
“[The mentorship] will
be like monthly check-ins
through her junior year
and then her senior year,”
Alicia said. “They’ll help
her write grants to get
funding for college, and
find what kind of college
will help her go the direc-
tion she wants to go.”
Kassity will also receive
one college credit after
writing a five-page paper
on what she learns from
the conference.
“I’d like to go to either
OSU, Harvard wouldn’t be
bad, or Queensland Uni-
versity in Australia,” Kassi-
ty said.
With so much to learn
in front of her, perhaps
Kassity’s first lesson from
the conference will be that
there are no free lunches.
“Just for the conference
alone is $1,800,” Alicia said.
“That is not our airfare,
that is not her hotel cost,
that is her 8:30-to-11:00-
at-night-3-day conference.”
She estimates that air-
fare, hotel and car rental
K
assity was seven when
her interest in science
was first sparked by a fasci-
nation with sharks.
“I love the way they
swim. I love their spot pat-
terns,” she said. “I like tiger
sharks because they can eat
jellyfish and that’s just cool.
I don’t know why.”
Alicia vividly remem-
bered the moment Kassity
made her decision.
“I came home and she’s
like, ‘I’ve decided to be a
ichthyologist,’” Alicia said.
“And she was very clear,
so at eight we took her to
Crescent City, to Ocean
World down there, so she
could pet a live shark. And
then we started taking her
to aquariums.”
Alicia told Kassity that
she had her parents’ sup-
port, but she needed to
concentrate on science.
Now in high school, Kas-
sity is exceeding expecta-
tions.
“She’s actually a sopho-
more taking junior science
and junior math,” said Ali-
cia.
Next year, Kassity will be
taking senior-level classes
and her counselor is look-
ing into getting her access
to college-level classes for
her senior year.
On top of her academic
performance, Kassity keeps
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The family’s fundraising
efforts started as soon as
the nomination letter ar-
rived in April. As it turns
out, they have found recy-
cling to be the most suc-
cessful tactic so far.
“I’m doing pretty well.
I’ve returned a whole
bunch of cans and bottles
people have donated to
me, which is super amaz-
ing,” Kassity said. “Like the
Portland Shockwaves, an
all-women’s football team,
donated to me and that was
so incredible considering
I did football when I was
younger. It meant every-
thing to me that they did
that.”
Kassity has also received
bottle and can donations
from Bates Steak House &
Catering. Various commu-
nity members have pitched
in as well.
“Some people are more
willing to give you cans
than give you money,” Ali-
cia said, “and so asking for
cans was an easy way.”
Even with her busy
schedule, Kassity has com-
mitted much of her free
time to the fundraising ef-
fort.
“Pretty sure it’s every day
I’m recycling,” Kassity said.
Some monetary dona-
tions have flowed in from
an online fundraising ac-
count.
“That paid for half the
conference and my hus-
band and I paid for the
other half,” Alicia said.
“Currently we’re trying to
help cut down on some of
the costs for the airfare.”
Alicia figured about
$1,000 have been raised in
total through fundraising
so far.
“At least half of it from
cans,” she said. “We’ve told
everybody that if you don’t
want to do GoFundMe, you
can contact me for some-
thing else or if you want
to donate cans, we’ll come
and pick them up.”
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6th & Gibbs Church of Christ
195 N. 6th St. • 541-942-3822
10:00am
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3rd and Adams St
541-942-4479
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Calvary Baptist Church
77873 S 6th St • 541-942-4290
Pastor: Riley Hendricks
Sunday School: 9:45am
Worship: 11:00am
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Hope Fellowship
United Pentecostal Church
100 S. Gateway Blvd.
541-942-2061
Pastor: Dave Bragg
Worship: 11:00am Sunday
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Church of Christ
420 Monroe St • 541-942-8565
Sunday Service: 10:30am
Cottage Grove Bible Church
1200 East Quincy Avenue
541-942-4771
Pastor:Bob Singer
Worship 11am
Sunday School:9:45am
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Wednesdays Sept-May, 6:30pm
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Cottage Grove Faith Center
33761 Row River Rd.
541-942-4851
Lead Pastor: Kevin Pruett
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Full Childrenʼs Ministry available
Services: 9:00am & 10:45am
Delight Valley
Church of Christ
33087 Saginaw Rd. East
541-942-7711 • Pastor: Bob Friend
Two Services:
9am - Classic in the Chapel
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Auditorium
First Baptist Church
301 S. 6th st • 541-942-8242
Pastor: David Chhangte
Sunday School 9:30am
Worship Service 11:00am
Youth Wednesday 6:30pm
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St. Philip Benizi, Creswell
552 Holbrook Lane
Sunday 8:30 AM
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
1301 W. Main • 541-767-9050
Rev. Lawrence Crumb
“Church with the fl ags.”
Worship: Sunday 10:30am
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
820 South 10th Street
541-942-5213
Pastor: Kevin Miller
Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am
Worship Service: Saturday, 10:40
Mid-week Service: Wednesday, 1:00
Living Faith Assembly
467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612
Trinity Lutheran Church
Worship Services Sundays: 9a & 11a 6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373
Youth Worship Sundays: 11a (all
Pastor: James L. Markus
ages welcome)
Sunday School & Adult Education
Mondays: 5:30p (6th-12th grades) 9:15am
Sunday Worship 10:30 am
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5:00pm TLC Groups
1041 Pennoyer Ave
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541-942-8928
Preacher: Tony Martin
United Methodist Church
Sunday Bible Study:10:00am
334 Washington • 541-942-3033
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Worship: 10:30am
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Old Time Gospel Fellowship
103 S. 5th St. • 541-942-4999
“VICTORY” Country Church
Pastor: Jim Edwards
913 S. 6th Street • 541-942-5913
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541-942-3420
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75 S 4th S • 541-895-3419
Rev. Seth Wheeler
Adult Sunday School 9:15am
Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am
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