Longfellow earns FBI Safe Online Surfing Internet Challenge yet again

From left to right, Jolynn Petersen, Mary Krell, Ashton Heth, Lisa Heckenlaible and Rebecca King pose for a photo on May 10, 2023, during an award presentation at Longfellow Elementary in Mitchell.

By Mitchell Republic

May 17, 2023 at 9:48 AM

MITCHELL — The Minneapolis Division of the FBI presented Mitchell's Longfellow Elementary School with an award for high marks in the Safe Online Surfing (SOS) test recently.

This is the third consecutive year the school was honored with the award, which was given on May 10. Mary Krell teaches the curriculum as part of her guidance lesson and internet safety.

One of the school's students, Ashton Heth, scored a 100 percent two consecutive years, so he earned "the challenge coin" from the FBI. As a school, Longfellow collectively scored a 92.56 percent. That's an improvement from the past two years as it scored a 92.12 last year and a 91.6 the year before that.

A story from last year reviewing the honor can be found here:

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