ON CAMPUS Thirteen Students Named 2015 National Merit Finalists The Hockaday School is proud to recognize the following 13 members of the Class of 2016 who are finalists in the 60th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, a national academic competition for recognition and scholarship that began in 1955. The finalists include Avita Anand, Kathryn Banks, Alyssa Berger, Isabel Billig, Bridget Colliton, Shriya Das, Alexis Espinosa, Jane Gu, Anne-Marie Hwang, Ahona Mukherjee, Lakshmipriya Uppalapati, Mary Zhong, and Sarah Zhou.
Mona Rejino Receives Distinguished Alumna Award
Team MECCAS after FIRST LEGO League Championship
Each year the West Texas A&M University School of Music presents
Team MECCAS Dominates at the FIRST LEGO League Championships
a Distinguished Alumnus Award to successful WTAMU graduates who contribute time and support to the
Middle School students Meredith Jones, Clarissa Fuentes, Sarah Crow, Audrey Martin, and Swiler Boyd (Team MECCAS) entered the 2014 FIRST LEGO LeagueCLASS
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Challenge and had a fantastic showing at the North Texas Regional Championship Tournament last February. The MECCAS competed against 250 teams to make it to the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) championship tournament, where they competed against 51 other teams. They won the prestigious Project Award for Research, recognizing a team that utilizes diverse resources to formulate an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the problem they have identified. The girls investigated the best ways to help students learn how to type. The judges remarked about how incredibly thorough the girls’ research was, and that their research was in a class of its own. They even recommended that the girls take their textured typing skins global, using a site such as Pinterest!
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University and to humanitarian causes. This year, Hockaday piano teacher Mona Rejino was one of three recipients. An accomplished pianist and teacher, Rejino is co-author of the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library and Adult Piano Method. Rejino received her bachelor’s degree in piano performance and music education at West Texas State University and completed her master of music in piano performance degree at the University of North Texas.