Quiz Bowl Teams to compete at Nationals Edgewood’s Quiz Bowl Team placed in the top four at a recent meet of 30 teams, qualifying the team for Nationals. The team will travel to Dallas in May to compete against 120 teams from around the country. Team members include eighth-graders Triana Grigsby and Ammar Ahmed, seventh-graders Molly Schuh and Xander Pichner and sixth-grader McCullen Wilmert. Dan Perucco and Johanna Sturm are Quiz Bowl coaches.
Coach Dan Perucco, Triana Grigsby, Ammar Ahmed, Molly Schuh, McCullen Wilmert, Xander Pichner and coach Johanna Sturm.
Mounds View High School’s Quiz Bowl Team qualified recently for the 2016-17 Minnesota High School Quiz Bowl League and for the National Academic Quiz Tournaments High School National Championships in Atlanta in May. The team members who qualified are William Amendola Bye, Justin Duffy, Joey Floeder and Aryan Sehgal.
Spotlight Award takes Irondale to the Orpheum Irondale High School drama students, and director Janet Paone, accepted the 2017 Outstanding Spotlight Award for an exceptional performance of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. The award, presented by the Hennepin Theater Trust, honors high school musicals and students by formally recognizing extraordinary achievements. Irondale’s technical crew received special recognition with the Overall Outstanding Technical Team Award and the Outstanding Tech A/V Board Op Award. The Spotlight Award earned Irondale drama students an opportunity to perform and work backstage during the Spotlight Showcase at the Orpheum Theatre in June. In addition to the Outstanding Spotlight Award, the following students were recognized with individual awards. Leah Danielson as Ursula (Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role), Jake Richardson as Grimsby (Honorable Mention for Performance in a Supporting Role), Grace Whiting as Flotsam and Emily Hensley as Jetsam (Honorable Mention for Performance in a Feature Role), Clarissa Vandale, Sophie Paulsen and Sarah Bodin (Technical Leadership Nomination) and Nicole Clare (Evaluator Shout-Out).
DECA students to compete at State Mounds View Public Schools students represented Irondale High School and Mounds View High School at the 2017 Minnesota DECA State Career Development Conference March 19 – 21 at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency. Students competed in the areas of sales, promotions, finance, management and entrepreneurship. Mounds View students who competed at the State DECA Conference include: Hufsa Ahmed, Jason Andersen, Fil Gilbert, Jared Herbert, Lauren Jahnke, Nick Kottke, Sancho Lopez, Matt Meloch, Chaz Nelson, Bhumi Patel, Aman Rao, Justin Reiling, Ben Rosenow and Alisa Samadani.
Irondale DECA students who competed at the State Conference this spring are: Sophie Alaverez, Emma Beckman, Andrea Beethe, Sam Bickford, Haily Dabrowski, Conner Dickson, Kaitlyn Dobbins, Molly Doerrer, Tyrese Dooyema, Daniel Duong,Tyler Eskro, Julia Glaser, Ellie Goligowski, Grace Haglund, Darby Hanson, Mary Herstel, Maddie Hormann, Luke Janecek, Ashley Kluz, AlexLilley, Hannah Martin, Marie Meysembourg, Noah Mruz, Duc Nguyen, Zach Pettipiece, Maddie Quest, Anshuman Thakral, Victor Tran, Amy Umanzor, Morgan Welsh, Briana Woo and Daniela Zuniga.
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