Thank you to our parent volunteers. Please join us for breakfast on May 6. RSVP to Mandy Mulloy at mulloym@trinityprep.org.
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VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION
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PATRONS OF THE ARTS
POA will host an end of the year member breakfast on Wednesday, May 4, at 8 a.m. at Trinity House.
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MUSICAL THEATER CLASS PRODUCTION
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TRINITY PREP FILM FEST
Student-produced films from a variety of genres will be shown on Saturday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. The majority of films are family-friendly, with a few having a PG-13 rating. A $5 suggested donation will be collected at the door, and 24% will be donated to John Michael Night's Road to Recovery; the balance will be donated to United Cerebral Palsy (UCP).
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Track and field teams emerge victorious from FHSSA meet
By Delaney McLinden '18
The boys and girls Trinity Prep track team attended the FHSSA track meet on Thursday, April 26, and brought home several victories. Boys track finished second as a team, and girls track finished in seventh place.
The group consisting of Patrick Salas '17, Chas Cook '16, Trent Mandato '17, and Jesse Millson '16 swept the 3200 and advances to the state meet.
Jesse Millson '16, Chas Cook '16, and Trent Mandato '17 will advance to the state competition for the 1600 meter event after finishing second, third, and fourth at the regional meet.
Austin Campbell '17 and Kendall Gasner '16 both finished second in their 300-meter hurdle races. Jarelis Cabrera '16 also competed and won third in the 100 hurdle event. All three athletes will advance to the state meet.
The boys 4x8 runners finished fourth in the regional tournament and will also advance to state.
The teams also placed fifth in five other events: girls 4x800, boys 4x100, Gordon Ahl '16 in the Long Jump, Alaina Pisello in the 800, and Hayley Canal in the 300 hurdles.
Also, Josh Nemec '18 finished 11th in the high jump, Cecilia Arney '20 finished 10th in the region in the high jump, and Leah Hardgrove finished 12th in the discus.
Overall, it was a great day to be a Saint. Congratulations to these track and field athletes for their outstanding efforts!↧
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Trinity Prep students win American Computer Science League awards
Every year, the Trinity Prep AV Java and Honors C++ classes take part in the American Computer Science League (ACSL) and compete internally with teams from across the United States. The judges for the ACSL carefully review code from all schools to recognize those students they feel have gone beyond the scope of a high school programming class with their level of coding. Problems are received electronically, solutions are coded during classes, and then a hard copy of the code with student information is sent in to be judged. This year, we are honored to have received two awards for Trinity Prep students. Both Ricky Woodruff and Dominic Martinez were presented Outstanding Achievement Awards for their coding work. Congratulations, Ricky and Dominic!
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100% of Class of 2016 receive one or more college acceptances
Members of the Trinity Prep Class of 2016 have received more than 499 acceptances from 146 colleges, universities, and preparatory programs through a variety of college application processes. We are pleased to share the list of schools that have accepted members of the Class of 2016 as of May 2. One hundred and twenty-five members of the class (100%) have received one or more acceptances.
| Allegheny College |
| American University |
| American University of Paris |
| Auburn University |
| Babson College |
| Birmingham Southern College |
| Boston College |
| Boston University |
| Brandeis University |
| Brown University |
| Bucknell University |
| California Polytechnic State University |
| California State University, Fresno |
| Carnegie Mellon University |
| Case Western Reserve University |
| Claremont McKenna College |
| Clemson University |
| Colorado School of Mines |
| Columbia University |
| Cornell University |
| Dartmouth College |
| Davidson College |
| Drexel University |
| Duke University |
| Elon University |
| Emory University |
| Flagler College |
| Florida Atlantic University |
| Florida Gulf Coast University |
| Florida Institute of Technology |
| Florida International University |
| Florida Polytechnic University |
| Florida Southern College |
| Florida State University |
| Fordham University |
| Furman University |
| Geneva College |
| Georgetown University |
| Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Goucher College |
| Harvard University |
| Heidelberg University |
| Hope College |
| Indiana University Bloomington |
| Iowa State University |
| Jacksonville University |
| John Carroll University |
| Johns Hopkins University |
| Lafayette College |
| LaGrange College |
| Lipscomb University |
| Louisiana State University |
| Loyola Marymount University |
| Loyola University Chicago |
| Loyola University Maryland |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mercer University |
| Michigan State University |
| Middlebury College |
| Mississippi State University |
| New College of Florida |
| New York University |
| North Carolina State University |
| Northeastern University |
| Northwestern University |
| Nova Southeastern University |
| Occidental College |
| Oxford College at Emory University |
| Pace University |
| Palm Beach Atlantic University |
| Pennsylvania State University |
| Pepperdine University |
| Presbyterian College |
| Princeton University |
| Purdue University |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Rhodes College |
| Rice University |
| Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Rollins College |
| Rutgers University |
| Saint Louis University |
| Samford University |
| Southern Methodist University |
| Stanford University |
| Stetson University |
| Stevens Institute of Technology |
| SUNY Stony Brook University |
| Temple University |
| Texas A & M University |
| Texas State University |
| The George Washington University |
| The Ohio State University |
| Tulane University |
| United States Naval Academy |
| University of Alabama |
| University of Arizona |
| University of British Columbia |
| University of California Berkeley |
| University of California Davis |
| University of California Los Angeles |
| University of California San Diego |
| University of California Santa Barbara |
| University of California Santa Cruz |
| University of Central Florida |
| University of Chicago |
| University of Colorado Boulder |
| University of Colorado Denver |
| University of Denver |
| University of Florida |
| University of Georgia |
| University of Illinois |
| University of Kentucky |
| University of Maryland |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| University of Miami |
| University of Michigan |
| University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| University of North Florida |
| University of Notre Dame |
| University of Oxford |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| University of Redlands |
| University of Richmond |
| University of San Diego |
| University of San Francisco |
| University of South Carolina |
| University of South Florida |
| University of South Florida-St. Petersburg |
| University of Southern California |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| University of Vermont |
| University of Virginia |
| University of Washington |
| University of West Florida |
| Ursinus College |
| Valdosta State University |
| Vanderbilt University |
| Virginia Tech |
| Wake Forest University |
| Washington & Jefferson College |
| Washington University in St. Louis |
| Widener University |
| Williams College |
| Wofford College |
| Yale University |
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CHORAL CONCERT
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BOOSTER MEETING
Please join Boosters on Monday, May 9, at 7 p.m. in the DAC classroom for the last meeting of the year. All Booster members are welcome!
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EXAM SCHEDULES
Click here for the Spring Exam Schedule for grades 7 thru 11.
Click here for the Spring Exam Schedule for Seniors.
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Trinity Prep Seniors Win National Merit Scholarships
Seniors Varun Bhatia, Sylvia Choo, Justin Graham and Saumya Sao have been selected as winners of National Merit Scholarships. Sylvia Choo, Justin Graham and Saumya Sao are winners of the National Merit $2,500 Scholarship, underwritten by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation by its own funds, and Varun Bhatia is the winner of the National Merit Siemens Scholarship, a corporate-sponsored scholarship.
All winners of the approximately 7,400 National Merit Scholarships are chosen from the group of approximately 15,000 National Merit Finalists. In order to advance in the competition and be considered for a Merit Scholarship Award, a Semifinalist had to become a Finalist by fulfilling several requirements that included submitting a detailed scholarship application and presenting a record of very high academic achievement.
Approximately 2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships will be offered to the Class of 2016 nationwide, and every National Merit Finalist is considered for the award given to Sylvia Choo, Justin Graham, and Saumya Sao. Winners are named in every state, in numbers based on the state's percentage of the nation's high school graduating seniors.
Corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships have specific criteria, and about 250 companies and businesses finance National Merit Scholarships for qualified Finalists. Most of the approximately 1,000 corporate-sponsored awards are for children of a sponsor organization's employee, but some are specified for residents in communities where a company plant or corporate office is located. Additionally, a few may be provided to Finalists who have college major or career interests that a sponsor wishes to encourage.
The National Merit Corporation also offers college-sponsored National Merit scholarships, and winners of these scholarships will be announced by the National Merit Corporation later this month.
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French students take top honors in national French contest - Le Grand Concours
Recently, Trinity Prep French students participated in the national French contest known as Le Grand Concours. Trinity Prep students have taken the exam since 1995 and have amazed faculty, staff, and parents year after year with their state and national rankings. Students that place in the 75th percentile or higher are are recognized with a medal. This year, several students reached that lofty goal.
In French 1B, Carolina Jorro '21 and Sabrina Salazar '20 won silver medals, and Marcelo Celi '21 won a bronze medal.
In French 1, Caroline White '16 and Valerie Kureya '19 both won bronze medals, and In French 2, Samantha Miller won a silver medal.
In French 3A, Valerie Trapp '18 won a gold medal, Caleigh Griffin '19 won a silver medal, and Connor MacInnis won a bronze medal.
In French 4 Honors, William Langdon '19 won a gold medal, Julia Paoli '16 won a silver medal, and sophomores Summer Heidish and Jackson Debord won bronze medals.
Siblings Alissa Vuillier '19 and Jonathan Vuillier '17 both won gold medals: Alissa's in the 3C category and Jonathan's in the 5A category. Lia Jueng also won a bronze medal in the 5A category.
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Trinity Prep Athletic Director Steve Bluth named head girls basketball coach
Trinity Preparatory School is pleased to announce that current Athletic Director Steve Bluth will be the next head coach for the girls basketball team.
Bluth has an extensive and successful background in basketball. He coached the Trinity Prep junior varsity team last year and was the head boys basketball coach at the Fieldston School in New York for 17 years. During his tenure, his teams won over 250 games and were selected to play in the New York State Federation Basketball Tournament for 15 of those years. Bluth's teams finished as semi-finalists or better eight times and won the 2005 New York State Class B Championship. In addition, he was awarded the New York State Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2011.
Over the years, Bluth has built many great relationships with his players, many of whom still keep in touch with him today. He attributes his team successes to playing hard, a commitment to excellence, a desire to learn, having fun, and most importantly, building great relationships and bonds with each other.↧
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Trinity Prep Library event, Throwback Tuesday, allows students to "unplug" and play
On Tuesday, April 25, the Trinity Prep Library, under the leadership of librarian Reba Gordon, held its first "Throwback Tuesday" event. The idea behind "Throwback Tuesday" was to have students "unplug" in order to create a sense of community and play between students. In the article below, Gordon explains the day's events and the effect they had on both students and faculty alike.
We recently had a Throwback Tuesday event in the library during both the middle school and upper school lunches. I made sure we had a large and diverse selection of games, such as Connect 4, Uno, Scrabble, Sorry, Clue, Trouble, Battleship, Apples to Apples, and Operation. I would classify these as "retro" since most of the students had not played these games "in years," and a few were not familiar with them at all. Perhaps the most important component of this experiment was prohibiting the use of cell phones and computers during lunch. As you can imagine, this provided the most angst with the students.
The reasoning behind providing an "unplugged" opportunity for students began with observation. Anyone who spends any time with children today cannot deny the almost umbilical connection most kids have with their smartphones, laptops, social media, etc. In many cases, this leads to a desocialization of kids from each other as they communicate via games, apps, and/or social media like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. The irony is that many of these kids feel they are being social with their peers by using these apps.
Numerous articles have been written on this very subject. In fact, Webjunction, an online community for librarians and a part of OCLC Research, recently published a blog series about board games in libraries. They stated that board games provide a "physical, manipulable medium for patrons to interact, grow and explore in a physical space." In addition, the American Library Association (ALA), found that gaming can also increase literacy. Our goal was to promote face-to-face interaction between the students and get them to think and strategize in different ways.
The atmosphere in the library during Throwback Tuesday was lively and, as more than one student told me, fun. The students appreciated having another way to interact with their friends and fellow classmates, as well as playing games that they had not played since early childhood. Faculty and staff from all departments turned up to help, and in many cases, play games with the students as well. There were many instances that led to Throwback Tuesday being deemed a success, but I wanted to share my top three:
- A student looked up at me from an intense game of Sorry! and said, "I didn't realize there were games I could play that weren't on my phone!"
- Days later students asked me if they could play specific games again.
- I had a student thank me for making the library such a fun place!
Getting kids who don't normally come to the library to try it out was phenomenal. That, in my book, is a success, and one we hope to replicate at least once a quarter.
If you would like to follow our fun in the library on Twitter, check out the hashtags #TPSlibrary, #TPSreads, and #throwbacktuesdaze.↧
Middle School students recognized at Middle School Leadership and Community Service Awards
On Tuesday, May 10, students, faculty, and parents gathered to recognize middle school students who have dedicated part of the year to community service. Trinity Prep's mission statement includes a commitment to developing students who contribute to their communities. Community service is a central part of the Trinity Prep identity, and we couldn't be prouder of these middle school students for their time and dedication to making their community and the world a better place.
The Presidential Volunteer Student Service Award recognizes students who have given both 50+ and 100+ hours of community service this year. Those students are:
- Matthew Ahl
- Andrew Bachrach
- David Butts
- Will Butts
- Abby Freedman
- Jordan Hardy
- Piper Harris
- Max Holler
- Leah Keefe
- Aidan McLaughlin
- Tyler Nepple
- Laura Parodi
- Ava Rothrock
- Allison Hoeg
- Kismet Kohn
- Annabelle Lawton
- Lili Pope
- Molly Pope
- Sabrina Salazar
- Ethan Schenck
- Christian Talbert
- Andrew Thelwell
The Prudential Spirit of the Community Award recognizes Americans of all ages who have volunteered significant amounts of time to serving their communities and their country. This year's award winner, Annabelle Lawton, spent over 160 hours on community service this year alone.
Annabelle is also the recipient of the The Disney Dreamer and Doer award. This recognition from the Disney company is given to students in the Central Florida area who take exceeding action in making their community a better place. In addition to the hours of community service Annabelle has given, she has attended a mission trip with her church, working in Tennessee with Team Effort to help local residents who were physically unable to get out of their homes. She has worked with local art and church camps, and is following in the footsteps of her father, who was also a Disney Dreamers and Doers recipient during his time at Trinity Prep. Anabelle's name will be placed on a perpetual plaque in the middle school office. She will also receive a certificate from Disney and complimentary tickets to the Walt Disney World Resort. Congratulations, Annabelle!
The Recognition for Exceptional Leadership and Service at School award is given each year to students who are highly involved with activities on campus and service projects in the middle school. These students have been nominated and recognized by their teachers, sponsors, and fellow classmates for their exceptional work and for helping to make school events possible. Congratulations to this year's award winners:
- Tayla Cohen-Neamie
- Sydney Cox
- Henry Huschke
- Kismet Kohn
- Kendrick Laguardia
- Ryan Latterell
- Matthew Mapa
- Benji Santiago
- Samantha Warren
Leadership Awards are awarded to students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership working on campus activities during the year and during their middle school experience. This year's award winners are:
- Leah Keefe
- Ela Vipul Patel
- Thomas Lightsey
- Ellie Watson
- Kaitlyn Borck
- Abigail Hamner
- Simon Lobst
- Ashley Mason
- Alicia Phan
No matter how many hours these students have given, we appreciate their willingness and dedication to making their communities, and the world, a better place. Congratulations, students!
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Trinity Prep students succeed in MAA's American Math Competitions
By Delaney McLinden '18
This past November and February, 600 Trinity Prep math students competed in Mathematical Association of America's American Mathematics Competitions (MAA AMC). The MAA is an organization dedicated to the goal of strengthening the mathematical capabilities of youth. To meet this goal, they identify, recognize, and reward excellence in mathematics through a series of national contests in which students participate and are evaluated. Every year, in thousands of schools in every state, more than 350,000 students are presented difficult questions and scored on the results. Those who show great success are awarded and recognized.
In middle school, the AMC 8 Winner Certificate and Honor Roll Certificate went to Justin Davis, for Honors Geometry.
Overall middle school winners were Justin Davis '20 in first place and Matthew Mapa '21 in second. Third place winners included Addison Torres '21, Ava Rothrock '20, and Frank Kogan '21.
Course winners in Expanded Math Concepts included Jordan Alch '22, Nolan Evans '22, Andrew Feenstra '22, and Kadence Turner '22.
Course winners in Prealgebra were Alessandra Garganese '21, Romie Llewellyn '21, Stephanie Rosenstock '21, and Austin Warwick '21, as well as in Expanded Prealgebra, Hayden Nutcher '22, and Addison Torres '21
The course winner in Algebra 1A was David Butts '20, and in Algebra 1, Luke Barrett '20, Alex Bedine '20, Michael Finkelstein '20, Abigail Hamner '20, Maxwell Holler '20, and Jenessa Schwarz '20.
Course winners in Honors Algebra 1 were Kaitlyn Borck '20, Ava Rothrock '20, Frank Kogan '20, and Harper Wilcox '20.
The top middle school student in an upper school class was Anusha Karandikar '20 in Honors Algebra II.
In upper school, Saumya Sao '16 won AMC 12B and advanced to the second round, and Matt Castro '19 won first place in the AMC 10 category this year. Sylvia Choo '16 took first in the AMC 12 category this year, while in previous years she has placed first in the AMC 10 category twice and took second in the AMC 12B category.
Mathematics teacher Deb Costello presented the awards to each student, and she couldn't be more thrilled about our students' performances. "Trinity Prep is happy to participate in this national competition, and we're proud that our students work hard at every level" she said.
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HEALTHY SNACKS
Students and parents are invited to the Grille on May 6, from 3 to 3:30 p.m. to sample new healthy snacks provided by Sage Dining.
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ASSIST STUDENT
Each year, Trinity Prep hosts an exchange student through the ASSIST program. Past host families have loved the experience and found it rewarding both them and their children. Trinity Prep will be hosting Clay from the Gold Coast in Australia in the fall. He will attend as a junior. Clay enjoys the outdoors and plays rugby and soccer.
We have a host family for the first semester, but typically the student transfers to a different family for the second semester. If you are interested in hosting Clay next year during second semester, please contact the admission office for more information.
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JM STRONG EVENTS
CARS FOR JM
May 7, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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LAKE SHORE RESTORATION COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT
Students in grades 8 through 12, please join the upper school Student Council on Saturday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to noon, for the Lake Martha and Lake Burkett lake restoration project. Volunteers will remove invasive plants and introduce native vegetation around both lake shorelines. This will result in an immediate and positive impact on the environment of our surrounding waterfront. Students under 18: please complete the permission slip and return it to Ms. Ferguson. Questions can be directed to Ms Ferguson at fergusond@trinityprep.org.
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