On Friday, May 27, faculty, staff, and students gathered to celebrate the winners of this year's middle school awards. We are pleased to announce the awards and their recipients for the 2015-16 school year. Congratulations, students!
Judith Rosenstock Award for Academic Excellence
This award is named in honor of Judy Rosenstock, the former middle school principal at Trinity Prep. It is a special award given each year to students who are gifted in many disciplines of study and may have the opportunity to win more than one award.
These students are truly motivated to learn and leave nothing to chance. They are conscientious, diligent, and willing to struggle in order to achieve knowledge. They are dedicated to excellence in all that they do. This academic honor is a comprehensive award; and therefore, students who receive it are not eligible for other middle school academic awards.
6th Grade: Ryan Rodriguez
7th Grade: Connor Raffa
8th Grade: Lili Pope
Good Citizenship Award
6th Grade: Matthew Ahl, Isabel Tongson
7th Grade: Carter Katz, Laney Walters
8th Grade: Ryan Latterell, Alicia Phan
Duke TIP Talent Identification Award
Each year, Duke University seeks to recognize and encourage academically talented and gifted seventh grade students. Any seventh grader who has scored in the 95th percentile or higher on certain achievement test batteries is invited to sit for the SAT or ACT in the winter of their seventh grade year. The results from those tests are used to qualify these students for state and national recognition. Some students are also invited to attend summer academic programs at Duke.
All students who qualified for the TIP program were commended during the middle school awards ceremony. We are pleased and proud to support them in their academic achievement. Congratulations!
Some of these students also qualified for state recognition. To qualify, a student must score at least 530 on the verbal or math section of the SAT or 22 on the Math or English section of the ACT. The following students qualified for state recognition and were invited to attend a state ceremony at the University of Florida. Congratulations Emilio Cal, Enzo Cunanan, Tsehai de Souza, Robert Dove, Carson Drummond, Jeffrey Hill, Alex Holt, Henry Huschke, Thomas Lightsey, Marco Malabuyo, Matthew Mapa, Mateo Membreno, Sam Nguyen, Molly Pope, Amy Qiao, Connor Raffa, Jake Raffa, Sophie Robinson, Reid Seybold, Ellie Watson, and Ryan Zehnder.
The Presidential Award for Education Excellence
The Presidential Award for Educational Excellence is given each year to students who have a cumulative GPA of 3.67 or higher and a score of 85% or higher on a recent standardized test.
Congratulations Gianna Aceto, Lucy Albright, Yasmeen Asfoorm, D.C. Bean, Grace Beneke, Sofia Blumenfeld, Kaitlyn Borck, Isabella Brady, Shay Buchanan, Caroline Burns, Jessica Celuch, Sydney Cox, Justin Davis, John Demo, Taylor Ellis, David Escue, Isabella Feld, Phoebe Fowler, Abby Freedman, Nicholas Gadalean, Kevin Garcia, Mackenzie Gasner, Abigail Hamner, Allison Hoeg, Allison Hoeg, Alexis Huang, Simon Lobst, Anusha Karandikar, Eashan Kothari, Ryan Latterell, Samantha Lin, David Manning, Audrey McAnally, Madison McGuire, Aidan McLaughlin, Alexis Moore, Anna Myers, Dylan Norman, Austin Ohlwiler, Tulsi Patel, Lili Pope, Amber Rampersaud, Ava Rothrock, Sabrina Salazar, Benji Santiago, Lindsey Simpson, Levon Tabirian, Bhrajit Thakur, Samantha Warren, London Wharton, Harper Wilcox, and Tara Wisniewski.John Hopkins High Honors - Mateo Membreno
2016 International Talent Search - Mateo Membreno
Karyn Shellhase Friendship Award - Austin Ohlwiler
Departmental Awards
Music
Introduction to Winds - Jordan Alch
Beginning Winds - Brendan Abney
Intermediate Winds - Taylor Brown, Talya Cohen-Neamie
Beginning Strings - Mia Camacho
Beginning Strings, Most Improved - Kelsey Silberbusch
Intermediate Strings - Talya Cohen-Neamie
Intermediate Strings, Most Improced - Sammy Vicente
Honors Advanced Strings I - Bhrajit Thakur
Honors Advanced Strings I, Most Improved - Laura Parodi
Honors Advanced Strings II - Molly Pope
Honors Advanced Strings II, Most Improved - Ethan Schenke
Percussion I - Isabella Feld
Piano Excellence - Sidney Seybold
English
English 6 - Jordan Alch
English 6 Writing - Aidan Liu
English 7 - Thomas Lightsey
English 7 Writing - Alysia Garcia, LuLu Garnett
English 8 - Sofia Blumenfeld
English 8 Writing - Yasmeen Asfoor
Young Adult Literature - Lexi Good
World Languages
French 1A - Emma Davey
French 1B - Sabrina Salazar
Latin 1A - Avery Birle
Latin 1B - Matthew Mapa
Spanish 1 - D.C. Bean
Spanish 1A - Sarah Lin
Spanish 1B - Sidney Seybold
Fine Arts
Art 6 - Kady Turner
Art 7 - Emma Davey
Art 8 - Sabrina Salazar
Ceramics 8 - Abigail Hamner
Printmaking 8 - Ava Rothrock
Theater 6 - Victoria Birkett
Theater 7 - Noah Perelmuter, Thomas Lightsey
Theater 8 - David Escue
Introduction to Choir, Choral Excellence - Avery Birle, Alex Cherry
Middle School Chorus, vocal excellence - Nydia Clifton
Science
Science 6 - Leah Keefe
Science 7 - Henry Huschke
Science 8 - Anna Myers
Grade 6 Love of Science - Alannah Crag-Chaderton
Grade 7 Love of Science - Tripp Toshie
Grade 8 Love of Science - Shay Buchanan
Math
Math 6 - Routledge Harris
Expanded Math 6 - Lauren Carlson
Prealgebra - Jordan Hardy
Expanded prealgebra - Jeffrey Hill
Algebra 1 - David Escue
Algebra 1A - Henry Kuhlman
Honors Algebra 1 - Austin Ohlwiler
Carol Denicole Math and Science Award - Anusha Karandikar
Computing and Robotics
Introduction to Programming - Jake McCreary
Programming I - Shay Buchanan
Programming II - Samantha Lin
FTC Robotics I - Emilio Cal
FTC Robotics II: Robert Dove
FTC Robotics III: Christopher Flannery
Civics, History, and Geography
6th Grade World Events - Isha Shukla
6th Grade Geography and World Cultures - Ava Kortman
7th Grade U.S. History - Enzo Cunanan
7th Grade Historian Award - Stephanie Rosenstock
8th Grade Civics - Simon Lobst
Physical Education
Physical Education 6 - Reed Fowler, J.J. Stein
Physical Education 7 - Elizabeth Eberley, Justin Farquharson
Physical Education 8 - Phoebe Fowler, Andrew Thelwell
Physical Education Spirit of Excellence - Bhrajit Thakur
Multimedia
Multimedia I - Sam Nguyen
Multimedia II - Sophia Dietrich