Honored for Service in Cincinnati and Beyond Two seniors are recipients of awards for their outstanding community service in the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond. Tiffany Au-Yeung and Katherine Steinman received two of three 2010 Student Community Service Awards which were presented in the Public Service Recognition-Cincinnati ceremonies May 6 on Fountain Square. Katherine Steinman is also one of 40 area teens who are recipients of 2010 YMCA Character Awards for demonstrating outstanding qualities of leadership and character and for working to strengthen their schools and communities. Susan Marrs, Seven Hills Director of College Counseling, said, “Katherine has, largely single-handedly, already raised $20,000 for a rural Guatemalan mountain village whose 40 families now have cinderblock stoves, a gray water system, latrines (the first toilets in the village), and a school that, before she came along, they could only dream of. Now her goal is to raise enough to buy new desks and chairs for the school ‘because the ones they have are rotting.’” Katherine has taught English as a Second Language to Cincinnati’s inner city Spanish-speaking kindergarteners, and she is a weekly volunteer at Su Casa Hispanic Ministry, working with Spanish-speaking families. Susan Marrs said, “Tiffany Au-Yeung’s year-round service at Stepping Stones’ Camp Allyn, a camp for children and
adults with mental and physical disabilities, is marked by exceptional devotion and commitment, and is, she says, the most important part of her life. Tiffany wrote, ‘In my role as a camp counselor at Camp Allyn, I have learned about disabilities such as autism and cerebral palsy, I have learned how to help a wheelKatherine Steinman, Tiffany Au-Yeung chair-bound camper hold a bat and hit a ball, but most of all I have learned to have a great passion for working with people with special needs, something I hope to continue for the rest of my life.’”
Individual First in State, Team Second in State in Math Competitions Seven Hills School senior Britt Cyr had the highest score in the state on the 2010 American Mathematics Competition. The AMC 12 is the first step to the USA Olympiad for which Britt subsequently qualified with his score on the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME). He was one of two Ohio students and 250 students nationally to qualify for the USA Mathematical Olympiad, which is the qualifying test for the United States team which will compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Kazakhstan this summer. Other Seven Hills students who had high scores on the AMC 12 were seniors Robby Woodworth, Josh Wang, Sarah Kloepper, Walker Schiff, Henry Warrington, and junior Peppar Cyr. Sophomore Isabel Arjmand was the top Seven Hills scorer on the AMC 10, and other high scorers were sophomores Alex Markovits, Sara Johnson, Dan Lang, Ginger Johnson, and freshman Sebastian Hoar. In the Ohio Math League competition, the Seven Hills team finished second in the state among schools of all sizes. Team members—the top scorers in each grade—were senior Britt Cyr, junior Peppar Cyr, sophomore Alex Markovits, and freshmen Chris Baggott and Ellen Coombe. Other high scorers in the Ohio Math League competition were seniors Bryan Romaine, Josh Wang, Walker Schiff, Kohki Nakafuku, Gilbert Pasquale; juniors Sydney Larkin, Elisse Hill, Virgilio Urbina Lazardi, Victoria Huang, Dan Shi, Julianne Bain; sophomores Isabel Arjmand, Ginger Johnson, Suhel Singh, Ned Williamson, Betsy Johnson; and freshmen Michael Bain, Nicholas Au-Yeung, and John Larkin.
Members of the Seven Hills team that placed second in the state among all-sized schools in the Ohio Math League competition were (front) Britt Cyr, Ellen Coombe, Peppar Cyr; (back) Chris Baggott, and Alex Markovits.
On the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics competition, the Seven Hills team placed fifth in the state. Individually, Britt Cyr placed sixth overall in the state, and Josh Wang placed tenth overall in the state. Other Seven Hills students who placed in the top 200 in the state were Isabel Arjmand, Peppar Cyr, Julianne Bain, Sasha Lieberman, Dan Lang, Elisse Hill, and Kohki Nakafuku. 18