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DAA
Ceremony
April 16, 2008
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STUDENT AWARDS:
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2008 American Association of
Teachers of German National German Exam
Submitted by: Mr. Franz Wesner
The American Association of
Teachers of German, Inc. has been sponsoring a National Testing Program for
over thirty years. Founded in 1926, the American Association of Teachers
of German is the only national individual membership organization dedicated
to the advancement and improvement of the language, literature, and culture
of the German-speaking countries. They give an annual achievement test for
high school students, in which 26,000 students participated this year. The
following student was honored for achieving a score in the 91st
Percentile on the national exam:
Scoring
in the 91st percentile
Nimish Telang
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2008 JROTC President's Academic
Championship
Submitted by: MSgt. Richard Denault and Maj. Frederick Schott
The President’s Academic
Championship is a nationally recognized academic competition exclusively for
JROTC students. It was created to highlight the demanding high school
curriculum in the JROTC program and to provide a challenging academic
competition. By participating, cadets learn the values of citizenship,
academic competition, and college opportunity. The competition creates
tremendous opportunities for JROTC and its cadets by demonstrating the
academic abilities of JROTC students.
The competition, sponsored by College Options Foundation and produced by
nationally-recognized software and question development experts, has three
levels of competition that are increasingly more difficult. Each level
includes questions from JROTC curriculum; standardized tests such as SAT,
ACT and ASVAB; and current events. National winners receive team plaques,
college admissions software, savings bonds worth hundreds of dollars, and
the satisfaction of knowing that they competed against hundreds of students
and proved their academic abilities.
A
team of North Allegheny Senior High School JROTC students competed against
teams from schools nationwide and achieved Second Place.
Second
Place Team in the Nation
Michael Bartlam
Brian Guzek
Sean Guzek
Brian Heckmann
Sarah Kelly
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2008 National Achievement
Scholarship Program
The National Achievement®
Scholarship Program is an academic scholarship competition for Black
American high school students. The program was initiated in 1964 to honor
academically-able black youth throughout the nation and provide scholarships
to a substantial number of the most outstanding participants in each annual
competition. The program is conducted by the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government
assistance.
More than 140,000 black
students in 11,000 high schools took the 2007 PSAT/NMSQT and requested
consideration in the 2008 National Achievement Program. Approximately 4,600
entrants earned test scores high enough to qualify for National Achievement
Program recognition. Their scores place them in the top 5% of program
participants. North Allegheny senior Aisha Moore was named a finalist
in this year’s competition.
Finalist
Aisha Moore
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2008 National Merit Scholarship
Corporation Competition
This year, nineteen NASD
seniors have been named Finalists in the 2008 National Merit Scholarships
program. This qualifies them for the various Merit Scholarships that are
awarded through this program. Merit Scholarship winners of 2008 will be
announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding
in July. Scholarship recipients will join some 234,000 other distinguished
young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
More than 1.4 million
students in nearly 21,000 U.S. high schools entered the 2008 National Merit
Scholarship Corporation program by taking the 2006 Preliminary SAT/National
Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of the
program entrants. Roughly 15,000 students will move on to collect some
8,200 Merit Scholarship awards worth over $33 million. NA students
recognized as Finalists in this year’s program are:
Finalists
Gwyn
Agnew Xiaolei
Liu Edward Wu
Nathan Carlin Samuel
McCandlish Christopher Xiao
Peter Gayler
Hillary Richard
Li Xu
John Grennan Rebecca Scheuer
Wen Xu
Daniel Harrison Stephen Tjader
Yilu Zhang
Steven Kang
Anlu Wang Xiao Zhu
Clifford Kim
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2008 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
The Prudential Spirit of
Community Awards is a nationwide program that honors young people for
outstanding acts of volunteerism. The program is in its 13th
year and is conducted by Prudential Financial in partnership with the
National Association of Secondary School Principals.
This year nearly 4,500
nominations were reviewed by state-level judges who selected two State
Honorees and eight Distinguished Finalists to represent the state of
Pennsylvania. Their decision was based on criteria such as personal
initiative, creativity, effort, impact and personal growth.
North Allegheny senior Marco
Giovengo was honored as a Distinguished Finalist in the 2008 program
for the volunteer work and fundraising he does for the Muscular Dystrophy
Association. Marco, who has muscular dystrophy, attends many events
throughout the year as a goodwill ambassador for MDA, and participates in
fundraising events for the Association. In one event last year, he
personally raised more than $6,000 to conduct research and send kids to MDA
camps. Marco has received an engraved bronze medallion for his impressive
community service activities.
Marco is also being honored
with the President’s Volunteer Service Award. This award recognizes
Americans of all ages who have volunteered significant amounts of their time
to serve their communities and their country. As a recipient of this award,
Marco has also received a certificate and congratulatory letter from
President Bush.
Distinguished Finalist, Spirit of Community Award
Marco Giovengo
President's Volunteer Service Award
Marco Giovengo
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57th Annual State Career
Development Conference
Submitted by: Ms. Nancy Boyle
DECA is an Association of
Marketing Students and is the only Career and Technical Student Organization
operating through the nation’s schools to attract young people to careers in
marketing management and entrepreneurship. Its purposes are to develop
respect for education which will contribute to occupational competence and
to promote understanding and appreciation for the responsibilities of
citizenship in our free enterprise system. There are 62 DECA chapters in
Pennsylvania with a membership of more than 3,300 students, alumni, teachers
and business professionals. Members of NA’s DECA Chapter competed
in the 57th State Career Development Conference at the Hershey
Lodge. Nearly 1,300 students from across the state participated. Please
join me in congratulating the following students on their success in this
series of state competitions.
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Second
Place – Modeling Competition
Krista Costello
Jeffrey
Litz
Second Place – Fashion Merchandising
Promotion
Meredith Feingold
Qualifying to Compete at the
International
Career and Development Conference
Meredith Feingold
Mary Kahle
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Intel Science Talent Search 2008
Submitted by: Ms. Anne Marklewicz and Mr. Matthew Davis
The
Intel Science Talent Search is American’s oldest and most prestigious
science research competition for high school seniors. Since 1942, first in
partnership with Westinghouse and since 1998 with Intel, the competition has
provided a national stage for America’s best and brightest young scientists.
This year, 1,602 high school
seniors entered the national competition. Three hundred students were
selected as semifinalists. Only 40 students were selected to advance to the
finalist level and NA senior Clifford Kim was one of them.
Cliff
traveled to Washington, D.C., in March to compete at a week-long Science
Talent Institute. There he had the opportunity to present his research
projects to the general public and members of the scientific community. At
the National Academy of Sciences, he met with distinguished government
leaders and participated in a rigorous judging process.
Cliff
did not come home as the grand prize winner, but making it to the finalist
level placed him in an elite group. Cliff was awarded $1,000 by Intel, won
at least $5,000 in scholarships and received a new laptop. He met Dudley R.
Herschbach, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, participated in a
photo shoot with the President, and met with U.S. Senator Bob Casey.
Intel
Science Talent Search Finalist
Clifford Kim
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Key Club International State
Convention
Submitted by: Ms. Barbara Schmid
Key Club is a service
organization for high school students, which operates under school
regulations and draws its members from the student body. Key Clubs are
sponsored by a local Kiwanis Club, members of which are leading business and
professional people of the community. Key Club’s objective is the
development of initiative, leadership ability, and good citizenship
practices. It functions not only on a local level, but on a district and
international level as well. Key Club is the oldest and largest service
program for high school students. It is a student-led organization that
teaches leadership through serving others. Key Clubs exist on more than
5,000 high school campuses primarily in the United States and Canada.
Growth efforts have taken the Key Club experience internationally to Canada,
the Caribbean nations, Central and South America, and most recently to Asia
and Australia.
The NAI Key Club has 175
members and the NASH Key Club has 150 members. Already this year, the two
clubs have raised more than $14,000 for Key Club charities by performing
more than 50 service projects requiring more than 3,000 service hours. In
addition to club service hours, each club member must perform a minimum of
50 individual service hours, which will bring the total service hours for
these two clubs to over 20,000 by the end of this school year.
At this year’s state
convention, five NAI Key Club members were honored with the Distinguished
Officer Award. The NASH Key Club was recognized for recruiting 93 new
members and NASH student Andy Fishell was elected Governor of the
Pennsylvania Key Club District. In addition, Ms. Barbara Schmid, NAI’s Key
Club Advisor for seven years now, was named the Pennsylvania Key Club
Advisor of the Year.
Distinguished Officer Award
Hassan Ataai
Rachel Binnig
Ryan Brady
Jennifer Doyle
Emily Furiga
Elected
Governor of the Pennsylvania Key Club District
Andrew Fishell
Pennsylvania Key Club Advisor of the Year
Ms. Barbara Schmid
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PIAA Class AAA Individual
Wrestling Championships
Submitted by: Mr. Bob Bozzuto
Joe Waltko, a co-captain of
the NA wrestling team, has had a very successful wrestling season that was
highlighted by his winning of the Allegheny County championships, where he
defeated the defending state champion in the finals. This year, Joe
garnered his third section title and was the WPIAL runner-up. He went on to
capture his 100th career victory at the State tournament and
avenged his loss in the WPIAL finals by winning 3rd place in the
PIAA tournament
PIAA
Class AAA Championship Third Place
Joseph Waltko
PIAA Class AAA Swimming and Diving
Championships
Submitted by: Mr. Bob Bozzuto
The North Allegheny Boy’s
Swimming and Diving team has enjoyed another year of success. The boy’s
team won their 18th consecutive Section 2 championship and captured their 3rd
consecutive WPIAL championship in 2008. This talented squad set many WPIAL
pool and team records this year, showcasing the hard work and talent that
comprised this year’s squad. Several of the team members also
qualified to compete in individual events at the State championships and
brought home medals.
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Gold
Medal 1-Meter Diving
Connor Kuremsky
Bronze
Medal Boys 200 Freestyle
Jonathan Buerger
Bronze
Medal Boys 100 Butterfly
Mark Waugh
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Tim & Tom Gullikson Foundation
The Tim & Tom Gullikson Foundation is
inspired by Tim Gullikson, a former Association of Tennis Players Tour
Champion and coach of such notable players as Martina Navratilova and Pete
Sampras. While coaching Sampras, Tim was diagnosed with brain tumors. As a
world-class tennis competitor and coach, Tim was convinced that the lessons
and principles he learned both on and off the court would be helpful in
enhancing the quality of life for brain tumor patients and their families.
On that hopeful premise, Tim and his twin brother, Tom, formed the Tim & Tom
Gullikson Foundation in 1995. Tim's spirit and vision guide the Foundation
today to create and support programs that build a brighter today and
tomorrow for patients and families living with brain tumors.
After Tim’s death in 1996, the Foundation created the Tim Gullikson Spirit
Award to
honor the memory of Tim Gullikson. The selected recipient of the Award is a
brain tumor patient, caregiver, volunteer, corporation or benefactor, that
embraces the same fighting spirit and positive attitude that Tim Gullikson
used to battle - and to live with - brain tumors, and in doing so, has given
hope to others. The award recognizes someone who has shown extraordinary
and unique courage, resourcefulness or ingenuity in battling the disease, or
a person who shows an extraordinary effort to help fulfill the goals of the
Foundation to assist brain tumor patients and their families as they cope
with the illness.
This recipient of the 2007
Tim Gullikson Spirit Award was NA senior Will Judkis. Will survived his own
battle with brain cancer when he was a child and in 2007, he founded a
tennis clinic to benefit the Gullikson Foundation. The second annual
clinic, which has earned the recognition of the United States Tennis
Association, was held on May 17, 2008.
Tim Gullikson Spirit
Award
William Judkis
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Staff Awards: |
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Pennsylvania Middle School
Association
and
Pennsylvania Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals
Mr. Brian
Miller, Principal at Carson Middle School, has recently been honored with
two prestigious awards. The Pennsylvania Middle School Association
presented Mr. Miller with the 2007-2008 Outstanding Administrator Award
during a professional development institute in March. In addition, Mr.
Miller has also been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Pennsylvania
Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals Middle Level
Principal of the Year.
The
Pennsylvania Middle School Association established the Outstanding
Administrator Award in 2004 to honor administrators who value, understand
and support effective middle level education that promotes learning for
young adolescents. As the recipient of this award, Mr. Miller will now
represent the state of Pennsylvania in the 2008 National Middle Level
Principal of the Year competition.
The
Pennsylvania Middle School Association’s Principal of the Year program began
in 1993 as a means to recognize outstanding middle level and high school
principals. The categories of criteria for receiving this award are
Collaborative Leadership, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment and
Personalization.
Mr. Miller
began his career with the North Allegheny School District 12 years ago. For
the first four years, he was a Physical Education teacher. He then spent one
year in a Lead Teacher position, followed by three years as an Assistant
Principal at Ingomar Middle School. For the past four years, Mr. Miller has
been the Principal of Carson Middle School.
Mr. Miller
earned his Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sports Science at
Pennsylvania State University and his Masters of Education in Educational
Leadership at Carlow College. He is currently enrolled in the
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Educational Leaders at Duquesne
University.
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Pennsylvania Middle School Association
2007-2008 Outstanding Administrator Award
Mr. Brian Miller
Pennsylvania Association of Elementary
and
Secondary School Principals
2008 Middle Level Principal of the Year
Mr. Brian Miller
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Management Science Associates
Sports Cup Quad A Championship
The MSA Sports Cup is a
challenge to determine the best all-around sports program in Western
Pennsylvania. Each year, all schools in the WPIAL are placed in one of four
classifications based on enrollment numbers for both boys and girls. Points
are earned for the success of each sport in the fall, winter and spring
seasons. For example, 50 points are earned for winning a WPIAL Team
Championship while only 30 points are earned for being a WPIAL runner-up.
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Only sports with at least 25% participation of WPIAL schools are included.
North Allegheny was crowned the MSA Sports Cup Quad A Champion for the
2006-2007 school year after nearly doubling the points of any other district
in our classification. NA finished the season with 700 points earned
followed by Bethel Park with 485 points and Upper St. Clair with 465
points. This win marks the 4th consecutive year that NA has won
this title.
2006-2007 MSA Sports
Cup
North Allegheny Athletic Department
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Space Foundation's Teacher Liaison
Program
Mr. John
Schaefers, a teacher at Ingomar Middle School, has been selected to
participate in the Space Foundation’s Teacher Liaison Program.
This is the fourth
year of this prestigious program, which provides an honored few teachers
with numerous benefits and privileges that help them grow their teaching
skills, strengthen their resumé, and influence space and science education
at a national level. Space Foundation Teacher Liaisons serve as an
active link between the Space Foundation, NASA, and their school and
school district. This influential role includes numerous benefits,
privileges, and activities including special recognition during the 24th
National Space Symposium, which was held April 7th - 10th
in
Colorado Springs,
CO.
Selected to
Participate in the National Teacher Liaison Program
Mr. John Schaefers
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Association of Supervision and
Curriculum Development
Annual Conference and Exhibit Show
Founded
in 1943, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development is a
nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents more than 175,000
educators from 119 countries. Their membership spans the entire profession
of educators—superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors
of education, and school board members. The organization addresses all
aspects of effective teaching and learning—such as professional development,
educational leadership, and capacity building. They offer broad, multiple
perspectives—across all education professions—in reporting key policies and
practices. Their mission is to advocate sound policies and share best
practices to achieve the success of each learner.
The
Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development invited our
Superintendent, our School Board President and Ms. Barbara Hutchinson,
President of the North Allegheny Federation of Teachers, to present at their
63rd Annual Conference and Exhibit Show which was held last month
in Louisiana. The session called Gateway to Excellence: A Teacher
Union-Administration-School Board Partnership focused on the
highly successful labor-management collaborative relationship that has
resulted in significantly high student achievement for the North Allegheny
School District. The session introduced the plan of action that has
cultivated leadership and attracted, sustained, and expanded a high-quality
workforce while emphasizing excellence and high expectations across our
School District. Their presentation demonstrated that through this
collaboration, the District has achieved outstanding scores on state and
national assessments such as the SAT, AP and NCLB tests.
National Presenter
Ms. Barbara Hutchinson
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