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For the first time in 23 years, the St. George’s Math Team came in first place at the Rhode Island State Math Competition. A tip of the calculator to Joa nna Xu ’13, who had the highest score in her division in Rhode Island, Michae l K im ’12, Ja e Shin ’13, Mike Kong ’13, Tao Ouyang ’12 and William Kim ’12. And speaking of Michael Kim ’12: The math and science departments can’t keep his pencils sharp long enough before he’s off to another competition. For the second year in a row, Kim scored high enough on the state math test—among the top 25 in the U.S.—to win an invitation to compete for a spot on the U.S. Math Michael Kim ’12 Olympic Team—and he accomplished the same feat in physics. Optimi Discipuli: Results are in from the National Latin Exam and five of our stellar students earned Silver Maxima Cum Laude Awards: Lily Sanford ’14, Joanna Xu ’13, Michael Kim ’12, Esi Ozemebhoya ’11 and Sophie Layton ’12. Six students earned Magna Cum Laude distinction: Scott Allen ’12, Alex Hope ’12, Theresa Salud ’13, Miles Matule ’14, Josephine Cannell ’13 and Annetta O’Leru ’11. Huck Joon “Scott” Yang ’11, who heads to New York University this fall, received a Siemens Award for Advanced Placement Scholarship this spring for his performance on A.P. tests in math and science. Established in 1998, the program awards $2,000 college scholarships to students from each of the 50 states Scott Yang ’11 who have earned the greatest number of scores of 5 on exams in the following AP courses: Biology, Calculus BC, Chemistry, Computer Science A, Environmental Science, Statistics, Physics C Mechanics and Physics C Electricity and Magnetism.
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Yang, who also enjoys sailing, says his favorite A.P. course actually was in economics. He plans to study economics and robotics at NYU with the aspiration of becoming an entrepreneur in robotics. What sparked his interest in science and math? “Building remote controlled cars and planes.” Rahil Fazelboy ’13, Up Punyagupta ’13, Raleigh Silvia ’13, Maddie Parker ’13, Carine Kanimba ’12 and Caroline Thompson ’13 all won prizes in the Rhode Island Mathematics Contest this spring. Their projects will be on display at the 2011 Fall Conference for the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England (ATMNE). Helen Weston ’12 was the recipient of a special scholarship award from Centro Mundo Lengua to attend their Spanish immersion program in Cadiz, Spain, in July. The rigorous and specialized precollege high school Spanish program has collaborative arrangements with local Spanish high schools to use their facilities and was codesigned by the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Program to help students prepare for AP tests Helen Weston ’12 and improve language skills. For the second consecutive year a St. George’s student won the top prize in the local Redwood Library Student Poetry Contest. This year, the award went to Tao Ouyang ’12 for his poem “Mirror.” Tao and Julia Carrellas ’11, who heads to Brown University this fall, joined six students from other Aquidneck Island secondary Tao Ouyang ’12 schools in April at the library for a reading of their poems and a discussion of their work.