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CONGRATULATIONS TO MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY SENIOR, AND WESTFIELD RESIDENT, ANDREW STAHL WHO WAS SELECTED AS THE WINNER OF A 2018 NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP. From approximately 1.6 million students who entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program, only about 16,000 were named Semifinalists. In order to advance in the competition and be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, a Semifinalist had to become a Finalist by fulfilling several requirements that included submitting a detailed scholarship application and presenting a record of very high academic performance. Only 7,500 National Merit Scholarships were chosen from a group of 15,000 distinguished Finalists. In receiving this prestigious award, Andrew was recognized among the nation’s most academically talented students. Andrew is attending the University of Chicago.
CONGRATULATIONS TO MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY SENIOR, AND MONTCLAIR RESIDENT, DOMINIC FLOCCO WHO WAS SELECTED TO BE A JOHN M. BELK SCHOLAR AT DAVIDSON COLLEGE.
MKA brought 26 students from the Upper and Middle Schools to the Essex County Math League. The Cougars came home with three awards—the Calculus team, made up of juniors (now seniors) Dylan Hall, James Lukenda, Casey Szilagyi, Ronny Bhatia, and Michael Golub, won 2nd place. Ronny Bhatia (junior, now senior) earned a perfect score to earn an individual award in Calculus, and Rohan Moniz (freshman, now sophomore) earned a perfect score plus the tie-breaker to come in 1st place in Advanced Mathematics!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ZOE LYNCH ’21 ON WINNING THE 2017 THE CONGRESSIONAL APP CHALLENGE WITH HER APP GETGIVENJ! The app pairs people in need with charitable organizations that provide local services and helps pair donors with local charities. Zoe traveled to Washington DC earlier in April to give a demo of her app to members of Congress, and on April 30th, Congressman Donald M. Payne Jr. presented the award to her!
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Davidson College, annually recognized as one of the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country, offers the John M. Belk Scholarship to recognize and reward the most powerful students in each entering class—students of exceptional intellectual accomplishment and great promise in myriad areas of academic and community life. Belk Scholars are described as “uniquely talented” and are further recognized as “challenge seekers, intellectual explorers, servant leaders, [and] catalysts for change”. The Belk is among the elite group of college scholarships that include the Jefferson at UVA and the Moorhead-Cain at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dominic was one of eight, first-year students chosen out of a pool of 1,293 applicants.
MKA SENIOR SHAURYA SALWAN WILL HAVE THE HONOR OF SEEING HIS JUNIOR INDEPENDENT HISTORY THESIS, “TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT: A SHABBY RESORT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC HEGEMONY,” PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING 2018 ISSUE OF THE CONCORD REVIEW. Founded in l987, this prestigious publication recognizes exemplary history essays by high school students and is distributed to 44 states in the US and in 38 countries around the world. His is the second Concord Review paper from the class of 2018, the fourth in the past four years, and the tenth MKA paper to be published in the Concord Review since 2007. Upper School History Department Chair David Korfhage says, “I’m very proud of Shaurya’s achievement. The history department is proud to have another student paper published in the Concord Review, which we view as a testament to the strength of our history research program. This is a track record to be proud of.” The Junior History Research Project is an alternative to the traditional American History AP course and requires every member of the junior class to spend six months conducting independent, in-depth research, using both primary and secondary sources, into an aspect of American history, prior to writing a thesis which can range anywhere from 3,200–6,500 words. Congratulations to Shaurya on this tremendous accomplishment!