Significantly CSG Kameron Millner ’15 Finalist for Two National Awards Kameron Millner ’15 was recognized as a Finalist for the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program and as a Scholar for the College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program. Kameron is one of only 1,300 Black American high school seniors who were chosen as a finalist for the 51st annual National Achievement Scholarship Program. Over 160,000 high school juniors requested consideration in the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program when they took the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The College Board’s National Bottom row, Left to Right: Erica Sims, Valerie Du, Rebecca O’Donovan, Alexandra Verzella; Middle row, Left to Right: Alexa Raasch, Myrial Holbrook; Top row, Left to Right: Megan Gumina, Kameron Millner, Katherine Tierney.
Nine CSG Students Recognized by 2015 National Merit® Scholarship Program Nine students at CSG were recognized by the 2015 National Merit® Scholarship Program, an academic competition for recognition and scholarships. The CSG students are: • Valerie Du ’15 – National Merit® Finalist • Megan Gumina ’15 – National Merit® Finalist • Myrial Holbrook ’15 – National Merit® Commended Student (placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who took the 2013 PSAT) • Kameron Millner ’15 – National Achievement Finalist & National Hispanic Scholar • Rebecca O’Donovan ’15 – National Merit® Finalist • Alexa Raasch ’15 – National Merit® Commended Student (placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who took the 2013 PSAT) • Erika Sims ’15 – National Achievement Outstanding Participant (scored in the top 3 percent of more than 160,000 Black Americans who took the 2013 PSAT) • Katherine Tierney ’15 – National Merit® Finalist • Alexandra Verzella ’15 – National Merit Commended Student (placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who took the 2013 PSAT)
Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) honors about 5,000 of the highest-scoring Hispanic/Latino high school students from over 250,000 Hispanic/Latin juniors who take the PSAT/NMSQT.
Megan Gumina ’15 Named Semifinalist of 74th Annual Science Talent Search Megan Gumina ’15 was named as a semifinalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS), a program of Society for Science & the Public and the nation’s oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition. During last summer, Megan participated in a selective research internship at Vanderbilt University through Vanderbilt’s Research Experience for High School Students program. She performed an individual project centered on the relationship between HDL (good cholesterol) and micro-RNA in high-sugar environments. Her project sheds more light on the association between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Megan was one of only five high school seniors in the state of Ohio and one of 300 in the nation to receive this honor out of more than 1,800 entrants from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. She has received a $1,000 award from the Intel Foundation, and an additional $1,000 will be gifted to CSG.
FORTE ET GRATUM • SPRING 2015
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