Key; Victoria Lach ’16 (Flash Fiction), Honorable Mention; Grace Lee ’15 (Critical Essay), Gold Key; Stelio Louka ’17 (Flash Fiction), Honorable Mention; Julia McCusker ’16 (Personal Essay/ Memoir), Honorable Mention and (Flash Fiction) Silver Key; Emily Simons ’17 (Flash Fiction), Gold Key and Honorable Mention; Danielle Stevens ’15 (Short Story), Silver Key; Kevin Sun ’17 (Short Story), Honorable Mention; Jacky Sun’16 (Personal Essay/Memoir), Honorable Mention; Nicole Van Manen ’15 (Flash Fiction), Gold Key; and Meghan Wilmott ’16 (Flash Fiction), Gold Key and Silver Key. 4 Tag Quijano ’17 for
creating a bicycle water pump, currently being used in the PDS organic garden, for his Eagle Scout Project. Tag is in Troop 43.
4 A student tries Tag Quijano’s bicycle water pump.
Ian Moini ’17 for running the NJISAA (Prep) State Indoor Track Championships and winning the 3200m (2 mile run) and finishing second in the 1600m (1 mile run) for the Prep B division. Ian competed as an independent runner representing PDS.
5 Sophie Freedman ’16 for being honored
with a Young Citizens Award from the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce for her “courage, inspiration to others and commitment to helping others in the community.” The award, presented by Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania Jim Cawley, recognized Sophie’s work creating and donating more than 100 bracelets to the Oncology patients at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and participating in several CHOP Pediatric Cancer Runs.
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6 Grace Barbara ’18 for being selected to com-
pete in the U.S. National Team Pool for the Region in soccer. She was one of only two goalkeepers selected out of 127 to represent the region. Grace also had the opportunity to compete against the Costa Rican Junior National Team in Costa Rica. Iris Kim ’20, who was chosen to be part of the Stanley Study of Exceptional Talent Program at Johns Hopkins.
Aaliyah Sayed ’21, who was a Top 10 Finalist in SCOTTIES National Trees Rock Video Contest.
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Anshika Virani ’22, whose poem “A Dream Come True” was published in the winter issue of the City Kidz literary magazine. Emily ’22 and Lyla ’22 Allen, whose entrepreneurial drive led them to launch a kale chip product in Pennington to promote nutritious habits.
OUR CHESS TEAM
The team of Winston Ni ’23, Albert Ming ’22, Vinay Rao ’21, Bryce Powell ’21, Delia McCarthy ’21, Dodge Martinson ’22, Kai Shah ’22, and Varun Rao ’21 who won 3rd place in the 2015 New York City Scholastic Chess Championship. The team of Eric Wu ’24, Jack Wang ’22, Jai Kasera ’23, Katie Jain ’21, Michael Kaleem ’23, and Aadi Shankar ’24 for winning 5th place in the 2015 New York City Scholastic Chess Championship.
Spring 2015