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MERIT ROLL Ten Hathaway Brown seniors have been chosen as National Merit Finalists for their high scores on the preliminary SAT, which is double or more than double the number of Finalists at any other CCIS school. Less than one percent of high school seniors across the country are part of this prestigious list. HB’s 2016 National Merit Finalists are Caroline Jobson, Anna Lietman, Maaryah Malik, Isabella Nilsson, Kavya Ravichandran, Kelsey Rich, McKenna Ritter, Aarathi Sahadevan, Nitya Thakore, and Claire Xu. Congratulations also are in order for the seven members of the Hathaway Brown Class of 2016 who received Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise, based on their Preliminary Scholastic Achievement Test scores. This year’s HB National Merit Commended Students are Olivia Asmar, Kacey Gill, Olivia Leslie, Alexandra Margulies, Sophia Richards, Evie Schumann, and Molly Sharpe. To learn more about the National Merit Scholarship Program, visit www.nationalmerit.org.
Helping Hands Honored HB’s Middle School GROW (Girls Reaching Others Worldwide) Foundation members were nominated for Volunteer Group of the Year at New Avenues to Independence, Inc. and invited to be guests of honor at the community service organization’s holiday ball. Created in 2000, GROW inspires girls to develop an early interest in Girls Reaching Others Worldwide philanthropy. The foundation’s goal is to encourage and support learning in connection with service. Members meet regularly throughout the school year to raise money and award grants to organizations and institutions in the Greater Cleveland area and beyond.
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HIGH HONORS HB seniors Olivia Asmar, Halle Leneghan, and Kavya Ravichandran were named semifinalists in the prestigious 2015 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology for their multiyear original research projects completed through the school’s signature Science Research & Engineering Program. These three students are the only Siemens competition semifinalists from Northeast Ohio. Kavya has worked for four years on her research in the Case Western Reserve University Department of Biomedical Engineering. The research she submitted to Siemens is on the topic of “A Nanomedical Approach for Targeted Thrombolysis,” focused on rapid thrombolysis achieved through site-targeted delivery of treatment. Halle and Olivia worked as a team at NASA Glenn Research Center for the past four years on “The Effect of 1.5 Years of Space Exposure on the Optical Properties of Spacecraft Polymers.” The samples, analyzed for total and diffuse reflectance and transmittance, had been exposed to increased solar radiation while mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station. The analyses conducted by Olivia and Halle are for use by NASA and private companies such as Space X as they design long-duration spacecraft. Kavya also was named one of 40 finalists in the country in the Society for Science and the Public’s Intel Science Talent Search competition. She is the only student in the state to be recognized by both the Siemens Foundation Competition and Intel STS for her work this school year. The Intel STS is one of the nation’s most prestigious math and science competitions and rewards rigorous original research conducted by high school seniors. Kavya has been recognized for her work in Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, where she is helping to develop a targeted therapy for heart attack, stroke, and other vascular diseases. She worked in the laboratory of Dr. Anirban Sen Gupta under the mentorship of post-doctoral fellow Dr. Christa Pawlowski. In March, Kavya traveled to Washington, D. C. for additional judging. While she was there she had an opportunity to visit the White House, and at a special gala awards ceremony headlined by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, she recieved a Third Place Medal of Distinction and a $35,000 prize. This is the highest honor ever to be earned by an HB student at Intel STS.