Mark Plaiss, CCHS Religious Studies Faculty, Authors Fourth Book Deacon Mark Plaiss, Carmel Catholic Religious Studies faculty member, has authored his fourth book, No End to The Search: Experiencing Monastic Life. According to Abbot Vincent Bataille of Marmion Abbey, “Mark Plaiss describes in detail the daily routine of a monastic’s life. He explains, as well, how the monastic values and routine have influenced his own life, a married layman in the teaching profession.”
L I F E
In November, three Introduction to Engineering classes implemented their knowledge of the manufacturing process to create an assembly line of sandwiches. They chose to donate the fruits of their production lines to two local homeless shelters. Initially estimating that they would create 100 sandwiches to be donated, driven by the cause for which they were working, the classes ended up with more than 800 sandwiches to split between two shelters. According to their teacher, Mrs. Erin Major, the students enthusiastically augmented not only their understanding of a productive manufacturing process, but also how the mission of Carmel Catholic can extend beyond their religion classes.
C A M P U S
The following seniors have been named Semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program: Sarah Nelson, Madison Sasman, Theresa Thiel and Coral Wang. These academically talented students have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered this spring. Additionally, eight seniors have been named Commended Students in the National Merit Program: Mary Brinkman, Jake Cerwin, Celia DeKeyser, Julia Elert, Scott Haseman, Rierson Johnson, Madeline Motzel and Calla Schultz.
Engineering Students Use Principles Learned in Class to Feed Homeless
Natalie Koenig ’18 Selected as an Illinois STEM Scholar Senior Natalie Koenig was selected to the Illinois 14th Congressional District STEM Scholars for the Class of 2018. Given her strong interest, achievements and recommendations, Natalie has demonstrated herself as a qualified candidate to advise U.S. Representative Randy Hultgren (IL-14) on the struggles students face in developing STEM knowledge and skills. Natalie’s leadership proves her commitment to discovering the solutions needed to not only improve educational outcomes for students in her community, but dramatically improve lives with the STEM solutions that are on the horizon.
CARMEL SUMMER 2018
Academic credit courses and enrichment camps More details coming soon at
carmelhs.org/CS18
COMPASS | Winter 2017
Students Named Semifinalists, Commended Students in National Merit Scholarship Program
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