Newsmakers
(L to R) Meredith Gilbert ’20, Burke Hinton ’20, Nick Bergeron ’24 and Wyatt Gockerman ’27
The Summit Country Day School placed second overall at the 2016 Ohio Junior Classical League convention. Joseph Delamerced ’18 won the top spot in overall points. A Summit certamen team took the top spot at the novice level. Members were Ryan Burns (captain), Connie Nelson, Kathryn Sullivan and Matthew Warden, all from the class of 2020. The Summit Country Day School placed second overall at the 2016 Ohio Junior Classical League convention. Joseph Delamerced ’18 won the top spot in overall points. A Summit certamen team took the top spot at the novice level. Members were Ryan Burns (captain), Connie Nelson, Kathryn Sullivan and Matthew Warden, all from the class of 2020. Eliot Schiaparelli ’17 won a “Best of Show” award for her 3-D model of “Iris Setting Fire to the Trojan Fleet” from The Aeneid. The following students won first-place awards: Alex Almaguer ’19 in multimedia; Hali Clark ’18 in pencil drawing; Joseph in the derivatives test, vocabulary test, charcoal drawing, 3-D poster, drawn map, drawn poster, illustrated children’s book and mixed media drawing; Caroline Klette ’18 in the mythology test and ink drawing; Connie in the mythology test; Alisha Shabbir ’21 in bead mosaic; Kathryn in the literature test and Roman life test; and Matthew in Roman history. Two students, Tullus Dean ’17 and Joseph, were elected to the league board. Wanyi “Sherry” Xiao ’18 took first place in her age group in the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Mathematics Contest. Seven Summit students competed against about 180 students from eight other local high schools. Other top award winners were Libin “Andrew” Zhou ’17, seventh place among juniors, and Charlotte Luo ’16, ninth place among seniors.
Jack Meyer ’16 was selected to compete at the University of Cincinnati Science and Engineering Expo. Jack previously presented his project, titled “Design and Implementation of a 3-D Controller,” at The Summit’s Science Research Institute Colloquium. His 3-D controller, the ColorCam, uses visible light to determine precisely a colored object’s position in space.
Two Middle and two Lower School students were chosen to display their art in two statewide exhibitions by the Ohio Art Education Association. Meredith Gilbert ’20 and Burke Hinton ’20 were chosen to exhibit their mixed-media abstracts. Nick Bergeron ’24 was selected for a torn paper self-portrait. Wyatt Gockerman ’27 painted a self-portrait using watercolors and tempera. Meredith and Wyatt were chosen for the 2016 Youth Art Month Exhibit, while Burke’s and Nick’s works were featured in the Young People’s Art Exhibit.
L to R: Grant Desch, Emily Bolan, Sydney Brinkman and Maria Min.
Four Lower School students won awards in the 2016 Jerry Tollifson Art Criticism Open. In Division 1 for grades one and two, Emily Bolan ’26 and Sydney Brinkman ’26 received first and second place, respectively, for their essays on “The Subway” by George Tooker. In Division 2 for grades three through five, Grant Desch ’24 won first place for his essay on “The Walk” by Marc Chagall. Maria Min ’25 received an honorable mention for her essay on “Separation” by Edvard Munch. The students’ essays will appear in the Ohio Art Educators Association’s ArtLine publication and on its website. Lisa Poffenberger ’17 was chosen for the 2016 TAP MD program sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Health Council. High school students from across the region explore medical professions over a year. They witness a live surgery; observe emergency, medical trauma and Lisa Poffenberger ’17 primary care physicians; attend a med school lecture; and participate in hospital rounds. Since 2011, when the program started, 17 Summit students have been accepted and participated. Summit Magazine
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