Two Newton Middle School students were chosen to participate in the 2017 Colorado Middle School All-State Choir. Seventh graders Jareb Ramos and Michael Kilfoyle sang with the Men's Choir under the direction of Mr. Jake Narverud from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Participants were selected from more 1,500 submitted auditions. “The students were selected through a rigorous and highly competitive audition process in which they sang a prepared song, sight-read musical examples, sang a major scale and performed several lines of aural recall,” said Newton music teacher Pattie Andrews.

Pictured: 7th graders Michael Kilfoyle and Jareb Ramos with Newton music teacher Pattie Andrews.