Congratulations to the Patriot Post staff - winners of the Sun Sentinel High School Journalism Awards 2013
Staffer of the Year: Lautaro Grinspan & Morgan Baskin
1st Place: News Section
2nd Place: Graphics/Illustration: Bella Hendricks
3rd Place: Features SectionCongratulations to the Heritage Debate team - they are now ranked 18th in the nation! This weekend at TOC Nationals, three of our juniors did so well that they automatically qualified for Nationals next year: Jared Sutton, Victoria Hsieh, and Brandon Marks.
On March 8, Ashley Hampton hosted The 4th Annual Multiple Sclerosis Fundraiser Talent Show. In honor of her grandmother, she has been actively fighting MS by organizing this event in the hopes it will continue to grow and raise funds. Collectively, with the help of her friends, family and the Pre-med Club, Ashley has raised about $8,000 for Multiple Sclerosis Medical Research. The Talent Show was a huge success and brought students and families together for an incredible cause. Students showcased their talents from singing to dancing—providing outstanding entertainment for the night! Congratulations to the prize winner of $100, Bryan Inerfeld, who truly sang his heart out to “Hallelujah.” Ashley hopes to continue this fundraiser as a senior in the school year of 2013-2014 and pass the event down to someone who also has a passion to get one step closer to finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis.
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Congratulations to Ms. Chisesi's Kindergarten class in winning 1st Place at the Palm Beach County Elementary Science Fair
for their project titled, Look at Those Bare Feet! Our second grader, Zachary Krouch, earned Honorable Mention for his
independent project titled, Three Big Stains. Great job to all the students and class projects who made it to the
Palm Beach County level!
American Heritage is proud of the members of the Class of 2013 who have been named to the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program. These students are among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants of 1.5 million program entrants. Semi-finalist students who reach Finalist status in February of 2013 are eligible for college scholarships offered by Merit Scholarship, corporations and colleges.
Recognition is based on the scores earned on the PSAT which students are required to take as juniors. In addition, qualified students are named National Hispanic Scholars or National Achievement Scholars based on the same test. We congratulate all of them on their accomplishments.
Semi Finalists:
Commended Scholars:
National Hispanic Scholar:
Congratulations to Chris Ralph who was selected from 40 young playwrights across the state of Florida by the Gorilla Theatre in St. Petersburg Florida to have his work produced. He will also become a member of the Dramatists Guild (Writers Guild) and receive a royalty for his performance. He is now a professional writer. He is currently spending a week in St. Pete working on his play with the Artistic Managing Director and with union actors he will have his played fully realized.
American Heritage High School was again the top individual high school in the State Science Fair Competition held in Lakeland, Florida, the week of March 25. There were nearly 900 competitors at both the high school and middle school levels.
Nine Heritage high school students qualified to participate and all nine won category prizes (compared to less than half of all participants). One of the four top grand prizes went to Miguel Paredes, AHS Senior, for the second year in a row. A second place was achieved by Kristina Thoren. Third places were awarded to Rachel Gilfarb, Sameer Kailasa, Harshath Gupta, and Mayori Viswanathan, while Rachel Shapiro, Angelica Gousse, and Zoe Zhou earned fourth places.
In the middle school division, all three of Heritage’s entrants won place awards as well. Nicholas Mirchandani was awarded a fourth place, while Zara Joykutty and Diego Ramos won fifth places.
Miguel Paredes represented Heritage and the State of Florida at the International Science and Engineering Fair which was held in Phoenix, Arizona. He won 2nd place.
The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the nation’s most highly regarded student awards programs. The purpose of this program is to recognize outstanding students who have not only maintained good grades, but who have also unselfishly applied their special knowledge and talents to contribute significant service to their communities. Past publisher, Pulitzer Prize winner John S. Knight, instituted the program at The Miami Herald in 1959.
The program is open to high school seniors in Dade and Broward Counties, who have high GPA’s and hundreds of hours of community service over their four years of high school. Each school may nominate one student in any or all of fifteen different categories.
The nominees must each submit an extensive application, which includes documentation of all they have done and achieved during their four years of high school. A panel of independent judges interviews each candidate; each panel selects one Silver Knight and three honorable mentions in their category.
This year, American Heritage had thirteen nominees: Morgan Baskin (Social Science), Rohan Batra (Mathenatics), Melissa Danz (Journalism), Sameer Kailasa (General Scholarship, Brendan Krimsky (Speech), Drew Kurzman (Music & Dance), Sara Lichterman (New Media), Francisco Mestre (Business), Daniel Notman (Vocational Technical), Miguel Paredes (World Languages), Christie Ramsaran (Art), Andrew Rubio (Science), John Wiltshire (English & Literature). We are very proud of all of them.
All nominees for both Dade and Broward Counties were recognized at a very special ceremony on May 22 at the James L. Knight Center in Miami. Special congratulations to Silver Knight winners Rohan Batra and Christie Ramsaran; each received the coveted Silver Knight trophy, a Silver Knight medallion, two round trip tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, and a check for $2000. Four of our students received Honorable Mention Awards; each was presented with an engraved plaque and a check for $500. Congratulations to Melissa Danz, Brendan Krimsky, Drew Kurzman, and Miguel Paredes.
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In other news from Communications Matt Damate, class of 2015, won four “Gold Keys” and an Honorable Mention for his poems submitted to Scholastic Art & Writing National Competition. Dani Dysch, a junior, also won Honorable Mentions for her poems submitted to the same competition.
Noah Bolanowski, a Junior, was asked to allow his National History Day project to be displayed at the grand opening, last month, of the first-ever Polaroid Photobar store in the new Delray Marketplace. He created a Polaroid Camera replica to demonstrate that the invention of the Polaroid Camera was a turning point in history.
“Magazine Students”, competed for the first time in the following FSPA sponsored contests/both digital and “on the spot” for the Spring Digital entries, students submitted 19 entries and took 16 honors/awards. For the “on the Spot” we had 12 entries with 2 first place winners, 1 second place and 1 third place with other Honorable Mentions. Competition is fierce and in some categories, no award was given. SO, please congratulate these students when you see them!
Spring Digital Entry Contests: - (These contests submitted before the convention.)
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All Florida - Gianni Lazzara in 2 Categories - Hand Drawn (Equus) &
All Florida - Gianni Lazzara in 2 Categories - Sports Photography (Stallion Chronicle)
All Florida - Cindy Metzger - Tom Pierce Photojournalism Portfolio
All Florida - Nicholas Gasparri - Hand Drawn (Equus) - (Nick received a perfect score!)
Excellent - Sasha Rader & Jackie Miller - (Equus) Lit Mag Cover
Excellent - Ryan McCurry - Lit Mag Poetry (Equus)
Honorable Mention - Julia Sorensen - Infographic (Stallion Chronicle)
Honorable Mention - Matt Damante - Lit Mag Poetry (Equus)
Honorable Mention - Ariana Bagherian, Abby Freeman, Jackie Miller - Lit Mag Spread (Equus)
Honorable Mention - Ariana Bagherian, Erin McCusker, Max Shavrick- Feature Story (Equus)
Honorable Mention - Madison MacIntosh, Dani Dysch- Feature Story (Stallion Chronicle)
Honorable Mention - Ariana Bagherian, Sasha Rader - Lit Mag Spread (Equus)
Honorable Mention - Ariana Bagherian, Ryan McCurry, Devin Barkey - Feature Story (Stallion Chronicle)
Honorable Mention - Abby Freeman - Profile Story (Stallion Chronicle)
Honorable Mention - Abby Freeman - Tom Pierce Photojournalism Portfolio (Stallion Chronicle)
Honorable Mention - Ariana Bagherian - Print Commentary (Stallion Chronicle)
Spring “On the Spot” Contests: - (These contests are performed within a short time frame/students receiving instructions as they “walk in the door” most have to be completed within an “hour to hour and a half” time frame.)
First Place - Team Photo Essay - Abby Freeman and Cindy Metzger
First Place - Team Literary Magazine (Stallion Chronicle):
Second Place - Team Literary Magazine (Equus):
Third Place - Team Literary Magazine (Equus):
Honorable Mention - Opinion Column - Ariana Bagherian (Stallion Chronicle)
Honorable Mention - Hand Drawn Illustration - Nick Gasparri (Equus)
Honorable Mention - Danny Welman Display - (Equus & Stallion Chronicle)
The Key Club visited Bethesda Hospital East’s Children’s ward on March 26. The Kiwanis members supplied Easter goodies for the children and Heritage students delivered them, dressed as the Easter Bunny and helpers.
From March 2-9, Jay Kernus, D.O. (who participates in our Pre-med program) and Lena Kernus (7th grade student) travelled to Honduras on an annual clean water mission.
This was the seventh year Kernus has traveled there. He works with a group called “Agua Para El Pueblo,” which translates to “ Water for the People.” They develop clean water systems for rural Honduran mountain villages that have access only to disease-carrying, poluted water. The people there are extremely poor.
“Agua Para El Pueblo” is an amazing Honduran run non-profit which individually designs, implements, and constructs clean water systems for these people. Because Kernus is capable of treating emergency medical care situations, he has been pressed into service to treat his group members as well as local inhabitants during the past year. He brought his daughter Lena with him, this year, as his nurse. She was an invaluable help to him and is excited about returning again next year. It was both an excellent volunteer project and life experience.
American Heritage is proud of the 57 members of the Class of 2013 who have been named to the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program. These 57 students are among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants of 1.5 million program entrants. Heritage has claim to the largest number of Merit Semi-finalists in the state of Florida with 36 students, and another 21 Commended Scholars. Students who reach Finalist status in February of next year are eligible for college scholarships offered by Merit Scholarship, corporations and colleges.
Recognition is based on the scores earned on the PSAT, which students are required to take as juniors. In addition, qualified students are named National Hispanic Scholars or National Achievement Scholars based on the same test. We congratulate all of them on their accomplishments.
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Nationally Recognized Students |
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| National Merit Semi-finalists Ali, Samra Almacen, Amelaine Batra, Rohan Brown, Zoe Cruz, Liliana Enright, William Francois, Josie Friedman, Jordana Gomez, Luis Grinspan, Lautaro Hendricks, Isabella James, Nicholas Kailasa, Sameer Kang, Dahyun Krimsky, Brendan Kushnaryov, Artyom Lam, Crystal Laos, Stefan Lindquist, Wyatt Magdaleno, AlecM ajor, Maximillian Mancao, Henry McCready, Sean Menocal, Megan Nascimento, Paulo Petti, Bryan Pires, Giovanna Ramsaran, Christie Saleem, Sadruddin Silverglate, Cameron Snider, Bradley Spring, Samantha Swerdloff, Margaret Wiltshire, John Wood, Ashley Xu, Yuanzhe |
Commended Scholars
Abbott, Lindsay |
National Hispanic Scholars Cioli, Nicholas |
National Eloi, Monique |
