7th-graders honored for high test scores

Last month in ceremonies at the University of Maine in Orono, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth honored seventh-graders from Maine for their outstanding scores achieved on the SAT1: Reasoning Test. Those honored represented about 39 percent of the 500 students in Maine who took the test. They scored well above the mean average for high school seniors.

Receiving awards from schools in eastern and northern Maine were:

Michael Byrd, James Proctor, Christopher Sayles, Sean Trafton and Justin Travis of Fifth Street Middle School, and Justin Allen, Jennifer Jackson, Robert Kotredes, Brennan Mallonee, Julia Pancoe and Alyson Theeman of Garland Street Middle School, both in Bangor; Sarah Fricke, Andrew Reeve and Eben Stuart of Troy Howard Middle School, Belfast; Suzanna Elkin of the Bay School in Blue Hill; Katie Rohn of Brewer Middle School; Alan Bailey and Genevieve Reynolds of Bucksport Junior High; and Jessica Brophy of Deer Isle-Stonington Junior High.

Also, Jo Hafford of Schenck High School, East Millinocket; Adam Burgoyne of Hichborn Middle School, Enfield; Max Brooks, Cara Buttitta, Michelle Lapointe, Emil Lin and Colby Spencer of Reeds Brook Middle School, Hampden; Rebekah Metzler and Jarrad Mills of Hancock Grammar School; Scottilynn Goss, Bridget McKenney and Andrew Sawyer of Holbrook School, Holden; Thomas Coleman of Forest Hills Consolidated School, Jackman; Rachel Good of Lamoine Consolidated School; Mathieu Loiselle of Madawaska Middle School; Jonathan Bowley, Angela Filauro, Jenni Popp and Jennifer Saucier of Millinocket Middle School; Rachael Briggs, Leanne Lvin, Robert Millios, Guy Susi and Meagan Wands of Leonard Middle School, Old Town; Jessica Lipschultz, Patrick Seitz and Heather Tompkins of Presque Isle Middle School; Scott Olmsted of Rockland District Middle School; Aaron Merrill of Skowhegan Area Middle School; Gabriel Allen of Samuel L. Wagner Middle School, Winterport; and Joshua Sammer of Woodland Junior High School.

Contest winners

First place in the 1995 Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl was captured by the fifth-grade team from Leroy H. Smith School in Winterport. Speed and correct answers to math, spelling, geography, Maine studies and science questions determined the winner from among 12 teams competing in the annual event for fifth and sixth graders. Team members were Josh Allen, Jake Anderson, Jeff Clark, Adam Field, Casey McCluskey and Mike Morris.

Several area pupils were winners at the Maine Junior Solar Sprint State Championships held May 27 at the Old Port in Portland. Each team developed and tested their own designs for functioning solar cars and boats as part of classroom projects. Josh Johnson, Brian Sing and Taw-Won Chung of Fifth Street Middle School in Bangor won first place in technical merit, tied for first in kid’s choice and place third in craftsmanship; Shawna King of Bangor, a home-schooled student, won second place in innovation and craftsmanship; and Chris Hagemeyer and Alan Hall of Hermon Junior High School won third place in the car race. More than 250 middle school students participated in the event sponsored by the owners and operators of Maine’s McDonald’s restaurants, Maine Energy Education Program and the Environmental Sciences Partnership for Maine.

Individual winners

Josh Atwood, 13, a student at Reeds Brook Middle School in Hampden, was one of four winner in Nickelodeon Magazine’s “Say What” Contest for February-March. In addition to the publication of his entry in the July entry, he received a Nickelodeon home video and other merchandise.

Anne F. Healy and Nicolas G. Ellis of Garland Street Middle School in Bangor received the school’s annual Distinguished School Citizenship Awards. Presented to eighth grade students selected by the staff, the awards are based on character, scholarship, leadership and service.

Two middle-school students from Maine were honored with Promise of the Future Student Awards by New England Science Teachers. Given at schools represented by a NEST member, the award is presented to the student who through personal initiative has done the most to promote awareness of science and-or technology. Winners were Jacob Jentzer of Garland Street Middle School in Bangor, and Jonathan Lawless of Sugg Middle School in Lisbon Falls.

Patrick Michaud, an eighth grade student at Lawrence Junior High School, received the Outstanding Student of the Year Award for grades six through eight from the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine at its annual meeting in Portland. The award recognizes a student who has written an effective non-fiction essay or created an expressive piece of visual or performance art relating to the Holocaust or issues of human rights. He produced a video collage with contemporary music titled “Images of the Holocaust.” He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Michaud.

Writing about the future, Mavis Morse, 12, of Carmel created “Black Hole,” an adventure set in space, and was one of 30 to receive honorable mention in the 1995 Publish-A-Book Contest sponsored by Raintree/Steck-Vaughn Publishers. Her entry was one of 11,000 judged in the competition. She received an award certificate and $25. A sixth grader at Hermon Elementary-Junior High School, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morse.

Shelby Soohey, a fifth grader at Mary Snow School in Bangor, won first place for the state of Maine in the elementary division of the Space Science Student Involvement Program Interplanetary Art Competition. Her artwork will be displayed in the SSIP exhibit which will travel throughout the state during the next year. She received a certificate and medal-ribbon at ceremonies at her school in May. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sookey of Bangor.

Compiled by Darlene S. Henderson.