Saint Joseph’s senior, Curt Collingwood, traveled to Austin, Texas with teacher Thomas Loughran earlier this year. The team presented two posters they created at the American Astronomical Society’s 211th meeting. The trip was sponsored by the Spitzer Space Telescope Observing Program for Students and Teachers, in collaboration with the Research Based Science Education program of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.

Zachary Stangebye is featured in this month’s, Where are they now? Interviews with Montessori Graduates, in Tomorrow’s Child, a nationally distributed publication of the Montessori Foundation. Zach is currently attending the University of Michigan. Visit our library to read the article or find out more about Montessori education.

Congratulations to Joe O’Rourke for his outstanding achievement as Valedictorian of Adams High School. Joe will be attending Yale in the fall. He is also currently working with Lori Twining to build a new toddler structure as his Eagle Scout project.

Joseph O’Rourke, a senior at Adams High School, won the top prize at the science fair at Notre Dame, the prestigious Intel Award.
Molly Firth of Marian High School was awarded $208 for “Functionalized X-ray contrast agents for micro-damage detection.” The research synthesized gold nano particles to bond to bone for applications in understanding bone disease through imaging.

2005 TMA graduate Maria Muffoletto received an academic letter of achievement at Penn High School. She is currently a junior. This letter is awarded to students whose GPA is above 3.7 for 5 or more consecutive semesters.

Arnav Dutt is the captain and top scorer of the Saint Joseph’s High School Quiz Bowl team. The team is currently 7-2 for the lead in the league as of 2/21/08. Last year they placed fourth in the state and sixteenth at nationals.

Marian High School senior, Kylie Poulin, and her team mates placed first in the Indiana Stock Market Game out of 57 teams in the region. Their portfolio was valued the highest out of 32 teams competing at Marian.

Saint Joseph’s High School senior, Brian Huang, won the string division of the Young Artist concerto competition sponsored by the South Bend Symphony. This is an outstanding accomplishment! Brian also participated in the 2008 Indiana All State Orchestra playing the violin. In addition to his music achievements, Brian received a perfect score on the January Indiana Mathematics League contest.