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Campus Digest Faculty & Staff Honors Upper school art teacher Diane Marks has been selected as a juror for the Texas Art Education Association’s Visual Arts Scholastic Event. Upper school science teacher and science lab manager Ann Bowe and her Anatomy and Physiology class have been selected to be part of a new two-week instructional unit, “Scientific Decision-Making,” created by The Center for Educational Outreach at Baylor College of Medicine. The unit is described this way: “While investigating three simulated cases, students will learn about the cardiovascular system, evidence-based decision-making, and exercise and diet.” Middle school science teacher Shari Hiltbrand’s poster session proposal, “Angry Birds Tech,” has been accepted for presentation at next summer’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference. The presentation will describe the “Angry Birds” project Ms. Hiltbrand designed for her eighth-grade science classes. Upper School Chief Technology Officer Larry Kahn was the subject of an alumni feature posted on the web site for The Key School, www.keyschool.org, a pre-K through 12th grade coeducational day school in Annapolis, Maryland.
Student Honors Amber Chen ’14 received second place at the Thirteenth Annual Houston Premedical Academy Research Symposium for her poster titled, “Optimizing Imaging of the
You Make A Difference, formerly Who’s Who, is a group of wellrounded students selected by the faculty of the Upper School. Those nominated for this honor must display excellence in some, if not all, of the following areas: Academics, Athletics, Arts and other extracurricular activities. These students must also have leadership qualities and reflect in their attitudes, conduct and character, the highest ideals of the School.
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Fasciculus Retroflexus in the Mouse Brain” based on her internship in the lab of Dr. Mariella De Biasi, in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine.
recognizes not only her fine writing skills but also her commitment to community service, particularly for her work at the Salvation Army where she teaches piano.
This year the Kinkaid Model UN team participated in three conferences: Central Texas Model UN (hosted by University of Texas), Model United Nations San Antonio (hosted by the International School of the Americas) and Johns Hopkins Model UN (hosted by Johns Hopkins University). Mirel Baysal ’13, Selim Baysal ’14 and Christopher Combs ’16 received awards at the conferences.
Joseph Edwards ’16 won first place in the Regional (GCTAME) Gulf Coast Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Math and Science Competition. In addition to his first-place award in Geometry, Joseph won third place in Biology. Joseph advances to the State TAME Competition held in April at Texas A&M University.
In January, the Kinkaid Middle School Robotics Club teams participated in the TCEA Area 4 Robotics Contest. Kinkaid had three teams competing in the Arena games division: Techno Clan (Dani Knobloch ’19 and Niki Munsif ’20), Nerd Herd A (Julian Meyers ’19, Daniel King ’19 and Charlie Finch ’19) and iBots (Zubair Mukhi ’17, Seb Seager ’19 and Amy Ho ’19). Out of 55 teams competing, the Kinkaid teams placed 8th, 24th and 42nd. Kinkaid also had three teams competing in the Inventions division: Robot Artists (Sophia Ghauri ’20 and Sasha Busa ’20), Sonic Boomers (Christos Papandreou ’18, Graham Parsons ’19, Daniel Mirzai ’19 and Andrew Yang ’19), and Nerd Herd I (Brian Schroeder ’19, Cameron Rudin ’19, Rohan Kumar ’19 and Jason Gordon ’19). Out of 15 teams competing, the Kinkaid teams placed 6th, 10th and 13th. Annie Roff ’13 won first place in the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizens Contest. Her first-place finish
School Honors The 2012-2013 “Kinkaidian” has won two honors. Portions of our yearbook will be highlighted and reproduced in the annual yearbook publication produced by the publishing company. The publication is given to advisors throughout the country as a teaching tool and an inspiration for theme and design. Kinkaid’s editors will be videotaped and included on a QR code on the featured pages. In addition, the yearbook has been selected as a national sample for Balfour Yearbooks. This very select group represents less than 4% of the publications Balfour Taylor will produce this year. Congratulations to last year’s editors, Maggie Bremer ’12, Carly Gray ’12, Emily Lahourcade ’12 and Annie Stephens ’12, as well as the entire Kinkaidian staff. The 2011-2012 “Falcon” earned a Silver Medalist ranking at Columbia University’s Scholastic Press Association contest. This is a huge honor for last year’s editor Anna Nichols ’12, as well as the entire Falcon newspaper staff.
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Joe Cozby
Ray Brown
Sumant Agrawal
Alondra Reyes
Taylor Daniel
Dahlgren Baker
Arin Drtil
Katherine Drews
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Graham Marsh
Madi Goeringer
Frances Andrews
Lizzy McGee
Jenna McGaw
Allison Dyer
Paige Poe
Jake Pardee
Courtney Greer
Edie Powers
Nicholas Ho
Zach Rosenthal
Kendall Masterson
Sam Sands