Student Directory
ADAMS TWP — Mars Area Centennial School sixth-graders Lukas Boronyak and Alexis Riner were selected to receive 2021-22 Good Citizen Awards.
Teachers and staff members were asked to vote for two students from a list of sixth-graders who were selected to serve as school ambassadors during the school’s Fourth Grade Transition Days in April. During the event, the ambassadors led Mars Area Elementary School fourth-graders, who will be graduating to the fifth-grade next school year, on tours of the building.
As Good Citizen Award recipients, Boronyak and Riner’s names will be submitted to the office of state Sen. Scott Hutchison, R-21st, for special recognition.
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JACKSON TWP — Seneca Valley students competed against approximately 1,200 other students from schools all over the country in the Academic Games National Championships in the Convention Center in Knoxville, Tenn., April 22 to 25.
There are four divisions in the Academic Games made up of elementary (grades five and six), middle (grades seven and eight), junior (grades nine and 10) and senior (grades 11 and 12). Students then compete in seven types of games: Equations, On-Sets, Linguishtik, Theme, Propaganda, Current Events and Presidents
In the elementary division, Anna Ching won the Sweepstakes Overall Award. She was also named third-place overall best player in the nation along with National Champion in the On-Sets and a third-place team member in Theme.
For Current Events, Caelen Buchanan was a second-place team member and Kai Biertempfel and Rahdin Esin were third-place team members.
For Propaganda, the following students received honorable mention team member: Caelan Buchanan, Anna Ching, Lauryn Fencik, Erin Sbrolla and Liam Sharp.
In the middle division of the game of Propaganda, Albert Pimenov was awarded National Champion. Maddox Grupp was a fourth-place individual and a seventh-place team member. Arvand Ensi, Heath Lyon and Albert Pimenov were eighth-place team members. For the game of Current Events, Arvand Ensi, Sarah Ghaffar and Roshini Umesh were fourth-place team members.
Within the junior division, Megan Holby was a fourth-place team member for both Current Events and Theme. Lydia Miller was also a fourth-place team member and a fifth-place individual in Current Events. In the game of Propaganda, Katie Mack and Lihini Ranaweera were third-place team members. In Linguishtik, Rohin Jayaraman, Katie Mack, Lihini Ranaweera and Lydia Miller were fourth-place team members.
In the senior division, Jason Chen was a second-place individual and third-place team member in the game of Propaganda.
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Morgan Weitzell, the daughter of Roy and Erin Weitzell of Mars, and a junior at Deerfield Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts, earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36.
Fewer than half of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2021, only 4,055 out of 1.29 million students who took the ACT earned a top composite score of 36.
The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science, each scored on a scale of 1–36. A student's composite score is the average of the four test scores. The score for ACT’s optional writing test is reported separately and is not included within the ACT composite score.
