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Students honored
Student volunteers honored
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors honored 17 students from Loudoun County Public Schools May 6 as recipients of the Loudoun Volunteer Services 2008 Outstanding Volunteer Awards.
The honorees :
Outstanding Kindergarten Volunteer: Molly Stephen, 5, Mill Run Elementary School
Outstanding Youth Volunteer: Kellie Schlosser, a senior at Broad Run High School
Outstanding Youth Volunteer Team: the Claude Moore Community Builders Program -- Gabrielle Clardy, Broad Run; Rachael Diniega and Joanne Guidry, Potomac Falls; Kyle Frazier, Julie Strange, Joanna Weeks and Madeline Gaquin, Loudoun County; Tanner Johnston, Kevin Trowell and Kelly McKew Loudoun Valley; Chris Martin, Kelly Voltz, Pete Whelpley and Sun Park, Stone Bridge; Navjot Sagoo, Heritage.
McGowan Scholarship
Jane Derrick, a full-time weeks and evening business student at Shenandoah University's Northern Virginia Campus in Leesburg, is the university's first recipient of the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund's Scholar's Program.
Derrick, who lives in Reston, will complete her bachelor's degree in business administration in August and will begin the weekend MBA program.
Her first two semesters in the MBA program will be funded by the $18,000 McGowan tuition scholarship.
Stone Bridge students score
Ten students from Stone Bridge High School's business and technology classes scored in the top 25th percentile in the nation's scores in the National Financial Literacy Challenge.
The following students will receive certificates from the Office of Financial Education:
Meredith R. Cliett, Cullen J. Fleming, Brett M. Gallahan, Harry B. Hough, Brett E. Larson, Hunter Lipski, Mike J. Pirrello, Margaret M. Rountree, James J. White and Andrew A. Yandziak.
Essay contest
Three Loudoun students have won an essay contest on "Indispensability of Virtue."
Hannah Guthrie, a home-schooled student from Waterford, won $1,000 in the Community Levee Association's essay-writing contest for her argument that today's youth must use their "understanding of the importance of morals.. to unlock the door of greatness... ."
Kaitlyn Simmons, a senior at Heritage High School and Michael Vereb, a senior at Park View High School, placed second and third, respectively. They each received $100 honorable mention prizes.
Summer Governor's School
Thirty-two Loudoun County students have accepted invitations to attend the 2008 Summer Residential Governor's School.
This is a four-week experience for gifted students that takes place during July on college and university campuses across Virginia.
High school juniors and seniors will take classes in visual and performing arts, humanities, math, science, technology, agriculture, life sciences and medicine.
Those attending are:
Lauren Askew, Abbel Getu, Sarah Imam, Elaine Kwak, Christina Lidwin, Jessica Magarelli, Kyung-Hyun Min, Seamus O'Toole, Nadia Waterman and Nicole Ellerbeck, of Freedom High School; Stephanie Barrett and Alyssa Samuel of Loudoun County High School; Alexandria Burke and Katherine Ward of Briar Woods High School; Kelly Giltner, Nicole Lavella, Ashley Pruett, Stephen Spaseff, Bradley Whitwell and Katherine Hayden of Broad Run High School; Ellyn Greene, Heather Swanson and John Surotchak of Loudoun Valley High School; Laura Griffin of Heritage High School; Andrea Kim, Linnea Musselman, Kelsey O'Connell, Rachel Schneider, Austen Willis and Roopali Kulkarni of Stone Bridge High School; Joseph Menickelly of Dominion High School; and Briana Stiles of Potomac Falls High School.
-- By Elizabeth Coe
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