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SAS QUIZ CLUB CLIMBS THE RANKINGS IN US
Singapore American School’s High School Academic Quiz Club rose to 27th from 38th place in the US, according to High School Quiz Bowl Rankings. The website ranks the top 200 teams amid thousands of quiz teams in the US and about 100 international school teams. Currently, there are 30 high school students who are members of the quiz club at SAS and about 12 members are on the new Middle School Quiz Club. The high school team has already been invited back to the US National Championship in Washington, D.C., said Michael Harvey, SAS high school social studies teacher and quiz-club coach.
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Hadley Ackerman Soo Min Bae Kiana Baghaie Stuart Baker Sandhya Bala Hong Bin Jeong Martha Cabaero Hyun Do Cha Kyle Chan Katharine Chua Kelly Chung Kaitlin Crawford Sheyna Cruz Alexander Cuozzo
Aline Damas Stephanie Ellsworth Mila Escajadillo Clara Fong Nadine Fuller Liam Galey Nathan Gunawari Pakhi Gupta Vibhav Jagwani Se Hwan Jeon Cosette Koh Nadia Koolina Angela Lee Amalia Lee
The following students are the first inductees of the new Singapore American School Chapter of the National English Honor Society (NEHS). These sophomores, juniors, and seniors have demonstrated outstanding achievement in English as well as in all of their courses during their high school careers.
Nicholas Ataru Lee Sophie Lim Angie Lin Aditi Mahesh Kaho Monica Matsubara Nikita Mehta Brett Moody Hayden Mountcastle Alexis Mountcastle Caitlin Murphy Meera Navlakha Issabelle NguyenPhuoc
Zoe Ong Fleur Oostwal Jennifer Osborne Alexi Paglinawan Ashvita Prabhu Michaela Santillo Jeremy Seow Freddie Shanel Shreya Shankar Ashley Shin Sadie Smith Ariel So Hayley Sparrow Sunita Srivatsan
Lauren Stolz Tom Sun Gunnar Suranjan Sofia Syjuco Micaela Tam Isabelle Tan Hope Tanudisastro Jamie Gabrielle Uy Natalie Weinrauch Olivia Whitaker Michael Young Elizabeth Zhang
SAS students in November were selected on merit to be chairs of committees at IASAS Model United Nations (MUN) in Jakarta, Indonesia: Varun Bindra and Sae Hun Jang. In addition, three delegates won awards within their committees: Nikita Mehta won Most Diplomatic Delegate in Security Council, Mark Schoen won Best Delegate in the Special Political and Decolonization Committee, and Liam Galey received an award for Best Speaker in the Disarmament and International Security Committee. IASAS MUN is the only IASAS event that includes other non-IASAS international schools. The six IASAS members, plus ten other schools known to have strong MUN programs, met in Jakarta. IASAS MUN is a relatively small yet high-quality conference that allows delegates plenty of opportunities to speak in an environment where the nations are represented by students who are well prepared in terms of research and position papers, and are fluent, persuasive, and knowledgeable speakers.