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Student Salutes
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39th District Essay Contest Winners
Katelyn Carano of Alcott Elementary School won first place honors in Senator Christine Kehoe's annual 39th District 5th Grade Essay Contest. Katelyn's essay about the seals at the La Jolla Children's Pool earned her a State Senate Certificate of Recognition from Senator Kehoe, as well as a SONY Electronics-sponsored digital camera, and a Padres-sponsored goodie bag.
For submitting the most essays, Dana Middle School won a 27" color television sponsored by SONY Electronics. For submitting the second most essays, Brooklyn Elementary won a Gateway computer, which the company donated for the contest.
In addition to the aforementioned schools, Senator Kehoe received essays from the following SDCS elementary schools Balboa, Benchley Weinberger, Bethune, Franklin, Freese, Gage, Johnson, Knox, Marshall, McKinley, Pacific Beach, Sequoia, and Walker.
This annual contest invited all 5th grade classes in the 39th Senate District to write a persuasive letter to their school principal, the editor of a local newspaper, or their Senator regarding an issue that is important to them.
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National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
31 students from SDCS were among only 16,000 in the nation announced as Semifinalists in the 51st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These scholastically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,200 Merit Scholarship Awards, worth $33 million, that will be offered next spring. The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test served as an initial screen of program applicants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.
Congratulations to La Jolla High students: Tomas Anderson, Matthew Bohrer, Elena Churilov, Claire Deken, Meredith Ganon, Rachael Garcia, Nicholas Garver, Parhaum Hamidi, Jordan Liew, Joseph Lin, Ian MacLeod, Eric Sefton, Harin Song, Praveen Subamani, Zachary Wstrick, Elizabeth Zhang, and George Zhou; Patrick Henry High students Fabrice Heng and Gautam Wilkins; High Tech High students Erica Krimmel and Katherine Quinn; Point Loma High student Kevin Yaeckel; San Diego High International Studies student Lauryn Stephanson; Scripps Ranch High students Jenna Adsit, Lauren Eby, Jason Goldfine-Middleton, Ross Goldman, Bonnie Gordon, Steven Gordon, Alexander Lovell, and Maria Mortensen.
These students may advance to the Finalist level through an outstanding academic record throughout the high school years, endorsement and recommendation from school principal, and qualifying SAT score. Good luck! |
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