FAVORITE SONS & DAUGHTERS

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View welcomes announcements of recent achievements of Favorite Sons & Daughters who have graduated from local high schools. Achievements may run the gamut from earning a college degree to successfully climbing Mount Everest. Please include student's name, age, area high school attended and graduation year, parents' names and city of residence. Send announcements and photos by mail to: Lynn Benson, View, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0070; by fax to 477-3852; or by e-mail, viewcalendars@viewnews.com.

Samantha Grodski, 17, and the Boulder City High School cheerleaders won the Silver State Spirit Championship title in the 3A Show Large Division for the second straight year.

The team also took runner up position in the 3A Pom competition and first place in United Cheerleading Association's cheer camp.

Grodski also won first place in the Boulder City High School Winter Art Festival.

She is the daughter of Tom and Cheri Grodski of Boulder City.

Stacy (Raagas) Nelson has graduated Cum Laude from UNLV's mechanical engineering program.

She received an outstanding mechanical engineering student award and an outstanding UNLV graduate award. At UNLV, Nelson organized the Diversity Action Grant Program with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and chaired UNLV's student chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering.

Nelson helped design products for the local Make-A-Wish Foundation and Opportunity Village.

She led UNLV to a first place at the West Coast Human Powered Vehicle Competition, and she serves as a mentor to Legacy High School's FIRST Robotics team.

Her plans are to remain at UNLV, working toward her master's degree. She has been awarded a research assistantship.

She is the daughter of Larry and Debbie Raagas of North Las Vegas.

Damien Dawahare, 17, won grand prize in Nevada Reading Week's Logo Contest.

Dawahare, a junior at Green Valley High School, studies with art teacher Susan Silva.

Dawahare's "A Reader for All Seasons" was featured on T-shirts and stationary as part of the contest. Dawahare also won Gold Key and American Visions Awards as part of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. His drawing for that contest, "La Vida De Un Hombre," will be sent to New York for national competition.

He is the son of Mark and Tracy Dawahare of Henderson.