A RO U N D M KA
Student
Achievements
UPPER SCHOOL MATH TEACHERS LAURA TREADAWAY, MICHELLE BARBETTA, AND DONNA STARKE CHAPERONED MKA STUDENTS AT THIS YEAR’S ESSEX COUNTY MATH LEAGUE COMPETITION AT CALDWELL UNIVERSITY. Students brought home the highest number of trophies yet and garnered second place overall! Congratulations to all the students on their extraordinary efforts in this rigorous competition.
MKA STUDENT MICHELLE MEDAWAR ’20 SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NJ SCHOLARS PROGRAM. The NJ Scholars Program is an intensive academic program for highly intelligent and motivated students who are rising seniors. Every high school in the state of New Jersey is permitted to submit a maximum of two applications. Then, out of hundreds of applicants, only 39 students from the entire state are accepted each year. For five weeks during the summer, the Scholars live at the Lawrenceville School while they explore a topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. This year’s topic was Mind and Body: The Future of Being Human. The mission of the NJ Scholars Program is to engage and challenge students by creating an intense, interdisciplinary intellectual experience. The Scholars participate in lectures and small-group seminars, have extensive reading assignments, and pursue research at world-class libraries and museums. MKA is proud to share that Michelle Medawar ‘20 was accepted into the highly competitive NJ Scholars Program.
Congratulations to the MKA Robotics team who competed in a FIRST Robotics meet at South Orange Middle School and won the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award! The award celebrates innovation in the design and implementation of the group’s robot that participated in the competition. From Left to Right: Beyer White, Hunter Smith, Rohan Moniz, Anthony DiMaggio, Caleb Fossett, and Tristan Holup
FALL 2019
MKA STUDENT BEYER WHITE ’20 SELECTED FOR THE NJ GOVERNOR’S SCHOOL IN THE SCIENCES. The New Jersey Governor’s School in the Sciences (NJGSS) is a 3-week residential program where students are immersed in intense college-level research on the campus of Drew University. High school students who live in New Jersey are nominated by their schools and applications are submitted in the fall of the junior year for participation in the following summer. New Jersey’s Governor’s School in the Sciences is a very prestigious program for rising high school seniors. The objective of the School is to broaden the scholars’ appreciation and knowledge of science through exposure to a range of scientific topics and scientists and to introduce scientific research to the scholars via hands-on research experiences in a student’s area of interest. Please join us in congratulating Beyer on this tremendous accomplishment!
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