KIDS & EDUCATION April 2015
School Movers & Shakers Avonworth Avonworth High School senior Ryan Johnston and junior David Clark took first place for Editorial Writing and Editorial Cartoon at the Pennsylvania School Press Association State Championships. Avonworth High School principal Dr. Kenneth Lockette with Heather McElwee from the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Tresa Varner from the Andy Warhol Museum and Felice Cleveland from the Mattress Factory hosted a panel discussion at the South-bySouthwest Education Conference on March 9-12 in Austin, Texas.
North Allegheny Several North Allegheny students won multiple Gold Key Awards for their accomplishments in the Scholastic Art & Writing Contest. Winners were John Curcio (6 awards); Nathaniel Chen, Kelly Kim, Sam Marzula, Sara Nill and Mia Shikora (3 awards); Nick Koehler, Alexis Kruth, Bethany Schaelchlin,
Anastasia Shabalov, Gabriela Tomayko and Elizabeth Wang (2 awards); Melissa Daltner and Lauren Rogus (Gold Key & American Visions Nominee). Forty-two North Allegheny students medalled in the American Association of Teachers National German Exam. Seven students earned Gold Medals they are: Allison Frank, Alexander Giorgetti, Mark Hartigan, Benjamin Radock, Alaina Rodi, Nicholas Swensen and Megan Wadas. A team of North Allegheny students placed at the National Ocean Sciences Bowl where they won second place. Winning team members were: Sean Giger, Gunasheil Mandava, Rahul Rao, Russell Ruffolo and Joe Zhao. North Allegheny senior Catherine Zhang has been named a 2015 Coca-Cola Scholar and will receive a $20,000 scholarship to the college or university of her choice.
Forty-three members of North Allegheny’s DECA chapter competed in the State Career Development Conference. Two NA students won top awards – James McGaa and Shreyas Vasudevan. Two North Allegheny teams won first place in the U.S. Dept., of Energy’s National Science Bowl. First place winners from the senior high were: Songela Chen, Eric Mi, Rahul Rao, Gabe Ren and Sean Tao. Marshall Middle School first place winner included: Jiangfeng Chu, Jerry Chen, Jiwoo Cheon, Roy Sun and Venkata Daita. Marshall Middle School eighth grader John Ehling and Ingomar Elementary fifth grader Owen Prem have been named semifinalists in the Pennsylvania National Geographic State Bee held at Penn State University. Marshall Middle School National Academic League team made it to the “Final 8” Round of the Terrel H. Bell national Tournament of Academic Excellence.
Shaler Josiah Johnson, a senior at Shaler Area High School has been named one of 15,000 National Merit Scholarship Finalists. Two Shaler Area High School teachers have been named semifinalists for the 2016 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. Jade Leung, a science Teacher and Paul Stadelman, a math teacher will compete against the top educators in the state for the prestigious honor.
Josiah Johnson
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A group of Shaler Area High School students won awards at the High School Japanese Speech Contest. Kevin Kachur won the Grand Prize and first place overall. Luke Pomrenke took second place honors overall. Other award winners included: Evan Lysko, Jake Matthews and Stephen Borgen.
Fox Chapel Six Fox Chapel Area High School students placed in the Pittsburgh Diocesan Qualifying Tournament for the National Catholic Forensic League Grand national Championship Tournament. They are: Darwin Leuba, Sara Puthenpurayil, Rama Godse, Rishi Mirchandani, Frank Lou and Ellen Pil. A team of Fox Chapel Area High School student qualified for the 2015 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference. They are Jacob Kronman, Benjamin Kronman, Sophia Lee and Yelim Lee. Dorseyville Middle School eighth grade students and teachers participated in Holocaust Remembrance Day activities on March 27.
Jade Leung
Hampton Hampton High School junior Maggie Gibson has been accepted into the CMU Saturday Art Class program, which was attended by Andy Warhol. Gibson received a partial scholarship to attend the program.
Paul Stadelman
Shaler Area High School students, Tori Lorenz and Paige Milavec were two of 36 vocalists in their voice sections that performed at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association All-State Conference on March 25-28 in Hershey.
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Shaler Area AP chemistry students Tyler Eklund and Logan Hellinger were recognized for their essays in the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh 2014-15 High School Essay Contest.
Hampton School District students Nick Wilkins, Nalini Ramanathan and Mike Yu competed in the Math^3 math challenge sponsored by SIAM. The team earned an honorable mention award and shared a $1,000 scholarship award. Two Hampton Middle School classes received a special visit on Mar. 3, by Amy Brooks, author of Unseen Arms. Brooks was born without arms and legs and abandoned by her parents at birth.