{"id":21119,"date":"2020-01-25T07:19:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62627"},"modified":"2020-01-25T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:19:17","slug":"middle-park-counselor-chosen-from-state-for-notable-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/middle-park-counselor-chosen-from-state-for-notable-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Park counselor chosen from state for notable award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Ben-Polonowski-1024x684.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Ben-Polonowski-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Ben-Polonowski-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Ben-Polonowski-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Ben Polonowski<\/strong><br \/><em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A counselor at Middle Park High School has been selected for a prestigious award from the Rocky Mountain Association for College Admissions Counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Polonowski has been selected for the Cynthia Gayles Award, the highest award offered by the Rocky Mountain Association. Only one counselor from each of the five affiliated states in the association is selected each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be selected to represent the state of Colorado is beyond description,\u201d Polonowski said.<\/p>\n<p>The award is given for outstanding service in the field of college admissions to a counselor who has demonstrated hard work to get students ready for college.<\/p>\n<p>Polonowski\u2019s work as a counselor includes helping to grow the annual Middle Park scholarship fair, increasing college credit programs at the high school and expanding opportunities for students to visit and hear from different higher education options. He also spent five years as a regional representative for the Colorado School Counselor Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a fantastic award,\u201d Polonowski said. \u201cI feel fortunate to be a part of a wonderful system at East Grand School District and Middle Park High School, surrounded by a community of active learners \u2014 both students and teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The award includes a full scholarship to a counseling conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Polonowski said he hopes to continue helping Grand County students move from high school to higher education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt inspires me to continue to advocate for a community college in this county,\u201d Polonowski said. \u201cWe are one of few counties in the state that does not have a community college within its boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/middle-park-counselor-chosen-from-state-for-notable-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Polonowski A counselor at Middle Park High School has been selected for a prestigious award from the Rocky Mountain Association for College Admissions Counseling. Ben Polonowski has been selected for the Cynthia Gayles Award, the highest award offered by the Rocky Mountain Association. Only one counselor from each of the five affiliated states in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 17:06:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}