TODAY AT BRECK
SUMMER 2013
TODAY AT 123 OTTaWA ave. North
Breck Students Recognized for Success in Modern Language
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Senior Nicholas Thyr won a scholarship from the Minnesota
And in the National French Exam, two seventh graders,
chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Maya Czeneszew and Zoe Vogel, placed first in their catego-
Portuguese for his high score on the National Spanish Exam.
ries. More results are listed on the website.
A number of other Breck students also achieved high scores
In addition, 22 were inducted into the Chinese National
on the National Spanish Exam, including 11 Middle School
Honor Society. They are seniors William Naylor and Josh
and two Upper School students who placed at the Gold level
Stillman, juniors Christopher Anderson, Blaze Beecher,
nationally. A complete list of award winners is on the Breck
Madison Diehl, Madison Ernst, Trevor Larsen, Luke
website.
LeBlanc, Anjali Madhok, Lucas McCormick, Peter Metzger,
Of special note is that Emma Cowan, Melanie Blazar, Alexa Helm, Sarah Gunderson, Catherine Schmoker, Emma Senner, and Nicolas Thyr were all invited to attend the luncheon of the Minnesota chapter of the American Association of Teachers of
Hannah Price, Carter Roland, Nath Samaratunga, Jack Sheehy, Sunny Tang, Lucas Wille, Maddi Youngdale and Patricia Zhao, and sophomores Sofie Kim, Grace Kirkpatrick and Julian Maddox.
Spanish and Portuguese on May 18.
Artists Win Awards in State High School League Show Several Upper School artists took part in the Minnesota State High School League art show, and 11 won awards, including best in show for Emily Colwell and Maddi Youngdale. Claire Drysdale, Maddie Diehl, Evie Mackenzie and Alyssa Quast won superior awards, Emily Colwell, Kristina Genau and Maddi Youngdale won excellent awards, and Adria Duncan and Niara Hill won achievement awards.
Recognition for Advanced Science, Math Research Students Work by students in Breck’s Advanced Science Research
• Darius Bieganski won a 4th grand award in engineering
program won national recognition this spring, including the
and the Forward Thinker Award at the International Sci-
following:
ence and Engineering Fair (ISEF).
• Caleb Kumar has been selected as one of ten U.S. high
• Advanced Math Research program participant Patrick
school students to receive an AXA Achievement national
Curoe, along with program advisor Brad Kohl, led a
scholarship. His bio is among those featured in U.S. News
workshop at the Minnesota PFLAG (Parents and Friends of
and the AXA website. Caleb’s scholarship is for $25,000.
Lesbians and Gays) conference, presenting new information
• Paige Dempsey won a grand award bronze in environmental science and Elliott Weiler won a grand award bronze in engineering at the International Sustainable World (Engineering, Energy & Environment) Project Olympiad
about the issue of GLBT bullying. Patrick was one of only 16 people chosen to lead workshops at the event—and the first math research student to give a workshop at a conference. • Patrick, along with fellow math researchers Amy Yin,
(ISWEEEP). Students from over 70 countries participated in
Eden Motto and Emma Quirk-Durben, presented research
ISWEEEP.
projects in the Service Learning Showcase at the National Service Learning Conference in Denver.
Who Knew?
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Number of technology department employees named Ryan (left to right: Ryan Wilson, Ryan Mann, Ryan Flanders)