Newsmakers
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The Middle School Chorus, under the direction of Ginny Flynn, Middle School music teacher, won its fourth straight “First Place Women’s Choir” honor and its third consecutive “Best Overall Choir” award at the 2014 Music in the Parks competition at Hershey Park, Pa.
“Grizzly Town,” one of two GFS Middle School entries in the 2014 national Future City engineering/city planning competition, garnered the Student Choice Award and Outstanding First Year Participant Award for teammates (from left) Serena Shafer ’19, Alyssa Magaha ’19 and Lauren McEachin ’19.
Vasi Argeroplos ’17 (left) and Amanda Rein ’17 won the Encouragement Award for their performance in the first Confucius Institute Cup International Composition Competition for Chinese Language Learners sponsored by The Confucius Institute Headquarters/Hanban. The recognition for their essays written in Chinese is even more impressive given that when they entered as Eighth Grade students, neither had completed Level One Chinese. GFS offers Chinese through the school’s Confucius Classroom program.
Yeon Ji Kim ’14 won a national Silver Medal in the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition for her writing portfolio. For the regional competition, 14 GFS writers and visual artists, including Yeon Ji, won awards.
Jackie Magaha ’16 (left) and Emily Oleisky ’16, students in AP Computer Science through Online School for Girls, won the 2014 National Center for Women & Information Technology Award for Aspirations in Computing, the first two GFS NCWIT recipients.
Soccer: Anna Schaefer ‘14 Softball: Kayla Boswell ‘17
From left: Olivia Herlein ’18, Ashley Wells ’18 and Charlotte Nanteza ’18 were selected to the prestigious Maryland All-State Junior Chorus. More than 1,200 seventh through ninth grade students auditioned for the 160 slots.
2013 Gladiator by SGI/NFHCA High School National Academic Squad:
The Gladiator Program recognizes athletes with a minimum cumulative, unweighted GPA of 3.5 out of 4.0. Bayly and Meghan achieved “Scholar of Distinction” status, a new award honoring those athletes with a minimum cumulative, unweighted GPA of 3.9 out of 4.0.
Hannah Reynolds ‘18
Stephanie Burroughs ’14 Bayly Jarrett ’14 Julie LeGar ’14 Meghan McCann ’14 Megan Rossi ’14
Polo: USPA Girls’ Interscholastic Regional All-Stars:
Maryland State Field Hockey Coaches Association Senior Game Selection: Stephanie Burroughs ‘14
Polo: USPA Girls’ Interscholastic Prelim All-Stars: Demitra Hajimihalis ‘15
Katie Elder ‘14 Hannah Reynolds ‘18
2014 GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL