Everett Community College celebrates 2022 Honors program graduates

Release Date: June 15, 2022

Contact: honorsateverett@everettcc.edu

 Everett Community College President Darrell Cain (center) with Honors program graduates Joy Edwards (left), Grace Setiawan, Courtney-Jo Sauter, Rion Sakashita, Richard Roslof and Travis Hanes (right). 

Photo: Everett Community College President Darrell Cain (center) with Honors program graduates Joy Edwards (left), Grace Setiawan, Courtney-Jo Sauter, Rion Sakashita, Richard Roslof and Travis Hanes (right). 
 
EVERETT, Wash. - Everett Community College 2022 Honors program graduates presented their final projects at the college’s honors forum. 

Honors program graduates include Joy Edwards, Travis Hanes, Richard Roslof, Rion Sakashita, Courtney-Jo Sauter and Grace Setiawan.

This is the tenth year students have graduated from the program. EvCC started the program in fall 2011 to provide advanced academic challenges to students and enable students to stand out when they transfer to 4-year schools. Honors graduates’ achievements are reflected on their transcripts. This program is supported in part by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

Students’ capstone projects include: 

  • Joy Edwards’ project focused on three films that used music and/or sound in a creative way.  Her analysis paper examined how film uses sound and music to effectively manipulate the viewers’ experience.
  • Travis Hanes worked on his draft of an original fantasy novel. His work concentrated on point of view, three dimensional characters, scene, dialogue and exposition.
  • Richard Roslof designed and implemented a Markov chain text generator, a program that uses a graph data structure to read input text and generate similar text from that sample. The text generation is controlled using a graphical interface.
  • Rion Sakashita researched how to become a successful social influencer. She developed a best practices list and will demonstrate how she changed her Instagram account after studying successful influencers.
  • Courtney-Jo Sauter wrote a 25-page paper about selected plays of Euripides. She focused on on the representation of female violence, particularly as it is situated in the larger context of intra-familial murder in the fourth-century Athenian tragedy.
  • Grace Setiawan studied graph theory, focusing on vertex coloring and edge coloring. This project involves logic, reasoning and graphs most often used by architects, surveyors, drafters and engineers.

Any student who has earned a B or higher in English 101 and has an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher is eligible to join the honors program. To graduate from the honors program, students must complete 15 credits of honors classes plus a 5-credit capstone project.  

For more information about the honors program, visit EverettCC.edu/Honors to learn more.

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