National Scholastic Honors for Breck Artist and Writers
Lower School Runners Get in Gear
Senior Sarah Hu’s modern architectural drawing won a Gold
Lower School students participated in the 2015 Get in Gear
Key in the National Scholastic Art competition, entitling her
Fun Run (2k) on Friday, April 24. The run is held annually
to attend the awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New
at Minnehaha Falls. This was the eighth year that the
York City. Sarah’s drawing was one of 40 entries from Breck
“Running Mustangs” have participated in the event. Leading
recognized with awards in the Minnesota state Scholastic
up to the run, the Lower School students participated in
competition.
weekly training runs that were held after school. In addition,
Additionally, two Breck students garnered national awards for their writing in the National Scholastic Writing competition. Freshman Annabel Chosy won a Silver Key for her one-act play, and senior Maria Bell won five awards: a Gold Key for flash fiction, Silver Keys for flash fiction, poetry and science fiction, and Honorable Mention for her short story.
Cum Laude Society Inducts New Members From the Classes of 2015 and 2016 Last year 20 students were inducted into Breck’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society. Juniors Erica Buckingham, Sara Carle, Claire Cousineau, Darartu Gamada, Charles Gamer, Tait Helgaas, Taylor Hendrickson, Ingrid Thyr, Seamus Walsh and Lewis White; and seniors Henry Cousineau, Jack Dickinson, Donovan Ennevor, Julia Florey, Sarah Hu, Evalyn Mackenzie, Maxwell Miao, Sophie O’Bryan, Simon Parish and Nichole Showalter. They join the seniors who were inducted last year: Maria Bell, Peter Kiesel, Sofie Kim, Grace Kirkpatrick, Edward Kuhns, Jacob Levy, Madison Lommen, Parsa Najmaie, Andrew Stuempfig and Eve Zelickson.
Breck received $250 toward physical education equipment for having the most students/parents (75) participate in the 2015 run. The group was led by Lower School teaching assistant Abby Kordosky and Breck physical education teachers Merrill Harris, Rob Little, Peggy Fifield and Michelle Carlson.
Upper School Students Named Scholars of Distinction Breck students were recognized seventeen times in the Minnesota State Department of Education’s Scholars of Distinction program for 2015. Our Scholars of Distinction are Grant Two Bulls (Social Studies – Applied History); Darartu Gamada, Grace Kirkpatrick, Evelyn McChesney, Madeline McCure, Annie McFarland, Karsten Salveson, and Grant Two Bulls (Science); Darartu Gamada, Rustam Kosherbay, Zhuang Miao, Luke Onopa, and Eve Zelickson (Mathematics), and Brennan Clark and Prashant Godishala (STEM). Meritorious Performance awards went to Jack Dickinson, Siddarth Eswarachari, Andrew Sit and Moira Southern (STEM).
$5,000 Money raised by the Parents Association’s used uniform sales — contributed to the school’s sustainability initiatives
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