Newsmakers Myles Casanas
Latin Club
MIT Speedcubing winner Myles Casanas, a junior, won first place in an international Speedcubing event at MIT. Speedcubing is an activity in which participants attempt to solve a Rubik’s Cube and related puzzles as quickly as possible. Competing against more than 200 participants from around the world, Myles won first place in the 7X7 event and 2nd place for the 6X6.
Latin Club awards Latin students won 12 firstplace awards in the National Junior Classical League convention this summer in Fargo, N.D. Three students – Tino Delamerced, Paul Slater, and Nathan Patterson, were on Ohio’s Certamen teams. JCL Parliamentarian Will Donovan, a Summit junior, led the Ohio caucus in discussing candidates for election. Latin Teacher Larry Dean was given the “‘Summa Cum Laude JCL Sponsor Award” during a teacher recognition dinner.
Anna Delamerced Chess Champ Anna Delamerced, a junior, was declared National CoChampion 16 Years and Under at the 2010 All-Girls Chess National Championship in April. Seeded 5th coming in, Anna upset higher-rated state chess players from Texas and Connecticut on the way to the first place tie, 2nd by tiebreak. She is the current Ohio Girls State Champion; she had similarly won state honors in 2007. Anna, along with her brothers Tino and Joseph, teach chess to innercity scholastic kids in the Leadership Scholars Program. She also mentors Lower and Middle School kids in The Summit’s chess club.
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Simon Chow Carnegie Hall performance Simon Chow, a junior, played with the American High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall. The Honors Series brings exceptional high school musicians and singers from across North America to experience one week together in New York. Simon’s interest in the trumpet started in 6th grade under the tutelage of The Summit’s band teacher, Sarah Nowlin. In the last two years he has played with the Blue Ash Youth Symphony.