News of the School Summer 2016 Park Tudor School
ties this experience offers them. They look forward to one hour per week exploring a topic without the stress of tests or quizzes - learning for learning’s sake - and digging into something fun. Let us know if you have a passion or interest that you could share with either the Upper or Middle School students.
PT Students Shine at ISSMA State Competitions On Saturday, February 20, several Park
Tudor students competed in the state level of the ISSMA Piano and Voice Competition, earning gold medals. Congratulations to: Piano: Brian Zhu (MS) Andrea Stout and Alex Stout (US) Voice: Madeleine Loewen and Kyle Xu (MS) Kylie Clouse, Antonio Dominguez, Elise Edgar, Michael French, Julia King, Erin Krull, Anjali Mirmira and Sally Root (US) On Saturday, February 27, Park Tudor was also well-represented at the state level of the ISSMA Solo and Ensemble Contest. Each of the 9 soloists earned a gold rating, and each of our ensembles (21 total members) earned that top rating, as well. Soloists: *Angela Li, flute *Priya Moorthy, clarinet *Ethan Piper, alto saxophone *Elise Edgar, viola *Jarod Lau, violin *Hannah Wang, violin *Emily Sun, cello *Mike McGill, bass *Andrea Stout, bass Ensembles: *Flute Trio: Angela Li, Jonathan Moore, and Jennifer Oberthur *Saxophone Trio: Matthew Gerdisch, Allen Zhao, and Andrew Chen *Renaissance Plus String Ensemble: Andrea Stout, Paula Sing, Michelle Zhu, Michael French, Hannah Wang, Stephen Kocerha, Hana Shafique, Shelby Hart, Elise Edgar, Aidan Wiesinger, Lucy Keller, Chris Skalnik, Aman Sikand, Abbi Plewes, and Alex Bowlby
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CyberPatriot Defense Teams Complete Successful Season
Congratulations to the 47 PT students
who participated in CyberPatriot VIII this season. CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program and was conceived by the Air Force Association (AFA) to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our nation’s future. This was Park Tudor’s sixth year to compete in the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, with participation growing from five to 47 students. The online competition puts teams of high school students in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. In the rounds of competition, teams are given a set of virtual images that represent operating systems and are tasked with finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the images and hardening the system while maintaining critical services. Competitions take place on specified weekends throughout the school year. Teams must complete all their work during one (1) six-hour period on the Friday, Saturday, or Sunday of these competition windows. Teams compete for the top placement within their state and region, and the top teams in the nation earn an allexpenses paid trip to Baltimore, MD for the National Finals Competition. Coaches Bryon Realey and Karen Pellico fielded a record eight teams into the competition this season. Teams members were: Team #1: Alex Gregory, Bella Realey, Chris Lombardo, Jeremy Klotz, Kiran Bohyer and Nick Coury. Team #2: Amanda Li, Angi Li, Justin Lueck, Quinton Petrucciani, Rhodes Lacy and Zeba Kokan. Team #3: Alex Kim, Christian Amstutz, Karen Lu, Kendall Garner, Michelle Zhu and Riley Aquilano. Team #4: Adi Bhatt, Chris Skalnik, Drew Wiegel, Josh Weinstein, Siddhu Peri and Vanessa Longe. Team #5: Aidan Wiesinger, Graham Fisher, Justin Hu, Paul Miller, Rena Li and Vic-
tor Xiao. Team #6: Hannah Wang, Matt Fu, Maya Mishra, Megan Chapelle and Will Wallentine. Team #7: Alec Bloomfield, Alex Woods, Linnea Lindstrom, Matthew Jessup, Oliver Scotten and Tommy Gallagher. Team #8: Aaron Chai, Kevin Wu, Nick Conterno, Olivia Xu, Vahin Vuppalanchi and Carl Meyer. Congratulations to all of our teams for a great season and congratulations to the following State Winners: Team #6 First Place Indiana Gold Tier Winner; Team #5 Second Place Indiana Gold Tier Winner; Team #5 Second Place Midwest Region Gold Tier Winner.
Middle School Students Raise $12,943.17 to Fund a Well in Uganda
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School students learned last week that the $12,943.17 they raised as part of their Project:Well efforts earlier in the year has been sent to Uganda to fund a well. Students conducted a Water Walk and sold bottles of water during Water Week to raise money for the well. MS students learned about the impact the well will have - Uganda is rebounding after two decades of civil war. More than 1.6 million people were internally displaced (80% were women and children) and many remain far from home today. But clean water projects can improve health, shorten the time spent walking for water, and even help define and rebuild communities returning to or looking for a home after years of displacement.
Students in the News • Michelle Shen, Allen Zhao, Andrew Wu, and Alex Gu scored in the top 5% nationally in the Mathematical Association of America’s American Mathematics Competition. They were invited to take the American Invitational Mathematics Exam to compete for further honors. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!