Eighth Graders Win Junior Division in National World Savvy Competition Congratulations to the team of Claire Cousineau, Charlie Gamer, Kendall Kozikowski, Everett Naylor and Seamus Walsh, whose sustainability solution won the national World Savvy competition. The team devised a plan to
Great Success for Advanced Science Research Team Senior Taylor McCanna won second grand prize in electrical and mechanical engineering at the International Science and Engineering Fair for her project titled “Engineering an Inexpensive Mobile Electric Field Mill to Measure Changes in the Global Electric Circuit with the Goal of Tracking Global Climate Change.”
combat air pollution by installing solar panels on the
Seniors Alejandro Fenn and Andrew Engel won fourth
Fieldhouse and implementing an incentives program to
grand prize in materials and biomedical engineering at
encourage more people to carpool and ride the bus.
the International Science and Engineering Fair for their
The World Savvy competition challenges students to propose solutions to global problems and is now part of the curricu-
project titled “Engineering an Optical Cell to Improve Lithium-ion Battery Safety.” Junior Caleb Kumar and senior Roshny Vijayakar were
lum (replacing History Day) for Breck eighth graders. A number of projects from Breck qualified for nationals after the regional competition, created by students Justin Bergerson, Robert Christianson, Christopher DeMaris, Logan Denzer, Sid Eswarachari, Atlas Finch, Prashant Godishala,
selected as finalists in the BioGENEius competition. This means that they will be two of just 15 students who entered the United States’ open-competition who will be going on to the national BioGENEius competition in Boston in June.
Griffin Groethe, Tait Helgaas, Taylor H endrickson, Megan
Robby Dorn, Alejandro Fenn, and Caleb Kumar were
Johnson, Max Jundt, Joshua Langendorf, Spencer Larsen,
named Scholars of Distinction in Science by the Minnesota
Madeline McCue, Elizabeth McKenna, Nate Nys, Miles
State Department of Education while Anna Hendrickson,
Olowu, Erykah Starr, Ellen Vroege, Olivia Weiner and
Claire Simpson, and Jessica Ryvlin earned Meritorious
Austin Wong.
Performance. Caleb was also named a Scholar of Distinction in Mathematics.
Two Students Honored for Artwork Senior Sarah Mevissen
And sophomore Claire
has earned national
Drysdale’s drawing,
recognition in the
“Fledgling in the Forest,”
Scholastic Art and
won two awards. As winner
Writing Awards. Her
of the Minnesota Fifth
ceramic piece, entitled
Congressional District
“Spiked,” won an
competition, her piece will
American Visions
hang in the U.S. Capitol for a
medal—equivalent to a
year. It also won the Judge’s
Best of Show—and her
Choice Spotlight on the Arts
portfolio also earned a national silver medal. The Scholas-
award at the 2012 Minne-
tic contest is the nation’s longest-running and most
sota State Visual Arts High
prestigious program for teenage artists and writers.
School exhibition.
28
Temporary Upper School classrooms to be constructed in the Fieldhouse
15 cubic yards
Amount of compost made from Breck organic recycling, returned to the school by Hennepin County for our use in landscaping
9