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Honors and awards in education
Belmont Ridge students excel on Spanish exam
Students from Belmont Ridge Middle School won silver and bronze placements along with 29 honorable mentions on the National Spanish Exam this year.
The exam is an annual competition sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. It is an on line, standardized test given voluntarily by more than 3,000 teachers across the country.
In 2008, 106,000 students participated in the on line version of the exam.
The honored students at Belmont Ridge:
Eighth grade
Silver:
Kayla Sleece, Asma Akhtar, Elyse O'Rahilly, Caitlin Phelan and Heather Storeide
Bronze:
Kaitlin Kinkoph, Jennifer Freud, Rachel Zazagoza, Jason Alfred, Taylor Gray and Andrea Acosta
Excellence:
Joey Kim, Rebekah Higginson, Jodie Benjamin, Jordan Parker, Michael March, Kevin Simpson, Michael Han, Tife Adetunji, Meg Boyle, Joseph Louis, Maddie Bonifield, Alexandria Jochems, Auguste Spencer, Mackenzie Fleming, Lyna Tomomatsu, Patrick Bardenett, Zachary Kleine, Jared Daubenspeck, Rachel Auerbach, Caroline Kelly, Natasha Virdy, Nikki Peple, Kelly McCabe and Michael Hamrick
Excellence, Outside Experience/ Bilingual Speakers:
Gustavo Mogrovejo, Heidy Portillo, Pamela Villar and Esmeralda Cerritos
Seventh Grade
Excellence:
Lauren Muller
Bronze:
Uzair Akhtar, Lauren Skelly, George Wang, Pranathi Divi and Andrea Acosta
Excellence, Outside Experience:
Kiara Lee and Anmoi Sethi
Silver, Outside Experience:
Sunauz Moezzi
Loudoun Youth grant distribution
Loudoun Youth Inc. hosted its annual grant distribution June 24 at Creighton Farms Clubhouse in Leesburg.
This year's recipients of funds included the Alternatives to Violence Project at Loudoun County Juvenile Detention Center, Youth Financial Literacy Through Reality Store, Loudoun Interfaith Relief Emergency Food Distribution, Ethics Day at Stone Bridge High School and Piedmont Arts Foundation Theatre Project.
German Night at Harmony Intermediate
Students at Harmony Intermediate School celebrated everything German at the second annual Deutscher Abend (German Night) on June 5.
The purpose was to give students a chance to show why they study German and to perform songs, skits and readings.
The following students were also rewarded for outstanding academic performance:
Mariah Alden, Claire Beggs, Taryn Bromser-Kloeden, Adriana Canby, Erik Carlson, Steven Michael Carter, Martha Dawson, Isabelle Duerr, Christopher Fiedler, Sydney Francis, Meghan Harris, Oliver Hilgartner, Suzanne Johnson, Mary-Katherine Jones, Michael Konkus, Melanie Kramer, Alan Kyte, Ian Miller, Heidi Mitter, Kyle Perez, Bianca Roberts, Emma Thompson, Paul Vanwinkle, Victoria White, Courtney Wiesner and Connor Wood.
NSCS member
Alyssa Renee Fisher of Lovettsville has accepted membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and will be honored during a ceremony this fall on the campus of James Madison University.
Freedom students sponsor 'The Big Give'
Thirty-one students in the CAMPUS program at Freedom High School sponsored an international community service project from May 5 to May 23.
The Freedom students coordinated, collected and shipped school supplies to W.A.M. Collegiate Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
W.A.M. School faces the task of rebuilding and educating its students after 10 years of devastating damage caused by the civil war in Sierra Leone.
In the wake of the war, students need basic school supplies. The school also needs interior and exterior painting and repair, the bathrooms need to be remodeled, the music department needs instruments and the library needs books.
Freedom's students chose to assist the school after hearing of its plight from Freedom's business education teacher, Janice Johnson.
The CAMPUS program is an academic and collegiate preparation program designed to meet the needs of students from historically underrepresented groups in higher education.
Fifth-grade book drive
Hillside Elementary School's fifth grade class, working with the Broadlands Marketplace UPS Store, conducted a book drive for the Toys for Tots literacy program.
Fifth-graders collected more than 2,000 donated books.
Rise and Shine Scholarships
Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers (BRTC) has honored three students this year with scholarships.
Abbey Wolking, a home-schooler, began dancing with BRTC two and half years ago. Abbey is the recipient of a Rise and Shine Scholarship of $500.
She will be attending Patrick Henry College in the fall.
Hannah Guthrie, a home-schooler, began dancing with BRTC more than 10 years ago. Hannah will attend Liberty University in the fall and plans to focus on cross-cultural studies. She is the recipient of a $1,000 Rise and Shine Scholarship.
Dana Woodard, a graduate of Notre Dame Academy, has been dancing with BRTC for 10 years. She will be attending Liberty University in the fall, majoring in athletic training. Dana is the recipient of a $1,000 Rise and Shine Scholarship.
Joshua's Hands Awards
Joshua's Hands was established in 1999 in memory of Joshua Guthrie, who was an enthusiastic community volunteer.
Joshua’s years of service were cut short by his death at the age of 16.
Joshua’s Hands seeks to continue to be his hands of service in the community and to encourage others to serve.
The organization established a Servant's Heart Scholarship to reward Loudoun County seniors for community service.
The 2008 recipients are:
Lindsay Smith, a home-schooler, who will attend Mercyhurst College in the fall
Susan Gretzkowski, a Potomac Falls High School graduate, attending the College of William and Mary next year
Greg Escobar, a home-schooler
Each student will receive $1,000. For more information visit www.JoshuasHands.org.
Harris Teeter gives back to Loudoun schools
Harris Teeter's Together in Education Program raised more than $58,000 for Loudoun schools during the 2007-2008 school year. Shoppers at Harris Teeter helped raise the money by linking their shoppers cards to the school or school of their choice.
The top schools that benefited:
Legacy Elementary, Ashburn, $5,779
Mill Run Elementary, Ashburn, $5,305
Farmwell Station Middle School, Ashburn, $4,947
Briar Woods High School, Ashburn, $4,105
Newton-Lee Elementary, Ashburn, $2,762
Every year during the month of June, Harris Teeter sends checks to participating schools.
Shoppers must re-link their VIC cards for the 2008-2009 school year during the month of August.
For more information visit www.harristeeter.com.
2008 Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizenship Awards
Each year, the Ketoctin Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution presents Good Citizenship Awards to students at schools throughout Loudoun County.
Only one student per school may win. The teachers choose the winners who most exemplify the qualities of responsibility, leadership, kindness, honor and all-around good citizenship.
This award is for fifth grade in the public schools and eighth grade in private schools.
The fifth-grade winners:
Aldie Elementary, Erin Dellork
Ashburn Elementary, Abby Tebbenoff
Balls Bluff Elementary, Emmel El Fiky
Banneker Elementary, Rachel Walton
Catoctin Elementary, Josh Watson
Cool Spring Elementary, Cassidy Cagnon
Emerick Elementary, Sullivan Warner
Evergreen Mill Elementary, Rachel Coughlin
Hamilton Elementary, Tagg E. Francis
Hillsboro Elementary, Jacob Swank
Leesburg Elementary, Dayana Portillo-Hernandez
Lincoln Elementary, Andrew R. Lohr
Lovettsville Elementary, Elizabeth Beasley
Lucketts Elementary, Michaela Marusich
Middleburg Elementary, Alexius M. Simms
Mountain View Elementary, Tyler W. Rauch
Pinebrook Elementary, Rachel Clark
Round Hill Elementary, Lillie Field
Seldens Landing, Spencer Ferguson
John W. Tolbert, Mary Katherine Sullivan
Waterford Elementary, Blair Nagell
The eighth grade winner:
St. Theresa School, Peter St. George, Blair Nagell
-- Elizabeth Coe
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