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Lake County Office of Education announces Drive 4 Perfect Attendance recipient
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Office of Education announced that David Carter is the 2019-20 Drive for Perfect Attendance Main Event and recipient of the 2020 Chevy Spark offered through the event.
Carter is currently a fourth grader at Terrace Middle School but was gifted the car based on his attendance at Lakeport Elementary School in the Lakeport Unified School District.
The main event took place virtually due to the pandemic at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15.
Lake County Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg conducted the event and did the drawings of all the recipients.
“The idea behind this event is to promote school attendance for all Lake County students and to help publicize the importance of regular school attendance,” Falkenberg said.
Along with the vehicle, Carter was also gifted funding to cover auto insurance for up to one year for $2,000 and 12 $100 gas cards to help pay for fuel for a year.
The other 11 finalists also received scholarships for postsecondary education that were started by the Lake County Office of Education and matched by the Redwood Credit Union. Each scholarship varied from $100 to $600.
Each month that a student has perfect attendance, their name goes into a drawing. Each district holds a drawing to select their student representative. How many representatives are chosen in a district is dependent on the student population.
“Whether you are attending school virtually or attending school physically, attendance has been shown to be the number one factor in student success,” Falkenberg said.
The Drive 4 Perfect Attendance is sponsored by the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, in partnership with Mazzei Chevrolet and the Redwood Credit Union. It was also administered by the Lake County Office of Education to help promote school attendance for students in Lake County public schools.
The contest began on Aug. 10, 2019. It was scheduled to end on June 15, 2020, at 3 p.m. However, due to COVID-19, it ran through the month of February.
To view a list of all recipients, please visit www.lakecoe.org/Drive.