This week’s Starlight Senior is a Blue Star Awards standout. She won the 2019 Blue Star Award for Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role and went on to represent Starlight at the Jimmy Awards in New York City last year, in addition to serving the past two years on the Blue Star Awards Student Council. … Continued
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With graduation season officially under way, we are thrilled to continue to shine a light on several highly dedicated students. This week’s featured Starlight Senior is a two-year member of our Blue Star Awards Student Council. Throughout her years at Liberty North High School, she excelled in leading creative and technical efforts behind the scenes … Continued
Each Broadway season, a talented troupe of high school students known as the Starlight Stars performs for guests before our shows and at community events. We raise the curtain this week on a Starlight Senior who polished her singing, dancing and leadership skills as a Starlight Star for three straight summers. DANIELLE WOODS Senior, Olathe … Continued
Our second Starlight Senior from the Vincent Legacy Scholarship program won her performing arts training scholarship as a seventh-grader at Arrowhead Middle School in Kansas City, Kan., in 2015. Worth noting is that she was awarded a split scholarship that she shared with her one-year-younger sister. T’KHARA JONES Senior, Sumner Academy of Arts and Science … Continued
This week’s featured Starlight Senior will soon graduate virtually from the UMKC Bloch School of Business. He excelled as a member of Starlight’s 2019 class of Bob Rohlf Interns, and now he is set to return this summer as a Starlight Operations intern. JACOB BORESOW Senior, University of Missouri-Kansas City 2019 Starlight Bob Rohlf Intern, … Continued
In this week’s installment of Starlight Seniors, we shine the spotlight on a second member of our Blue Star Awards Student Council. Recently sporting purple hair for her lead role in Disney’s Descendants, this senior shines in the theatre department of Leavenworth High School. HALEY BELL Senior, Leavenworth High School Member, Starlight Blue Star Awards Student … Continued
Three members of Starlight's Vincent Legacy Scholarship family will graduate from high school in May. Since receiving their $2,500 scholarships in middle school, these young people have excelled not only in their training in the performing arts but in academic, leadership and other pursuits. We can't wait to see how they'll impact the world in … Continued
Each summer Starlight gets a boost of youthful energy and creative thinking when our newest class of Bob Rohlf Interns arrives. Some of our awesome summer 2019 interns aren’t concluding their college careers quite as they expected, but they’re making the best of a tough situation. We proudly give them a virtual round of applause, … Continued
It isn’t the end that students across Kansas City and around the nation envisioned for their senior years, but they are a resilient, optimistic and forward-looking group. That’s why we are proud to give a virtual standing ovation to some very special Starlight seniors. We start with a senior who has honed her talents on … Continued
At Starlight, there are many incredibly talented graduates of the class of 2020 who have been involved in numerous Starlight programs throughout their middle school, high school and college years. Whether it’s through Starlight’s Blue Star Awards, Starlight Stars, Vincent Legacy Scholarship or Bob Rohlf Internship programs, these students are some of the most driven … Continued