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Carson Scholar

Congratulations to Sean Matson for being recognized for a second year as a Carson Scholar! Last year, Sean won the Carson Scholarship.
 
The Carson Scholars Fund awards $1,000 college scholarships to students in grades 4-11 who excel academically and are dedicated to serving their communities. Scholarship winners receive the honor of being named “Carson Scholars” and are awarded an Olympic-sized medal and a trophy for their school to celebrate their accomplishments. 

Zack Huang Wins First Place

Springdale Preparatory School student, Zack Huang, won first place in the Senior Individual Documentary category at the Carroll County History Day on March 1.

National History Day is held annually through local, state and national competitions. This year’s theme, “Rights and Responsibilities in History,” allowed students to research and draw their own conclusions about the significance of their chosen topic through a variety of media. Huang chose a documentary.

“My documentary was intended to relate to the broad topic of this year’s NHD topic,” Huang said. “As we have gone through in APUSH (AP U.S. History) class, I have linked this to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Therefore I decided for the topic to be about how the Second Amendment is more than just a right but a responsibility passed down from the Founding Fathers.”

With a little guidance from his APUSH teacher, Ms. Alison Kraeck, and a nudge from his mom, Huang took on the research and filming himself.

“I started working on my scripts and outlines for about three days,” Huang said. “After that I had an interview with Ms.Kraeck about some things that could be effective in processing and reasoning my argument. Then I took about four days to edit the videos and around two days processing papers and annotating the bibliography.”

Huang will go on to compete at the Maryland History Day on May 3. From there, he might even move on to the National History Day competition.

He has a bit of advice for anyone wanting to enter a contest in the future.

Always try to be as innovative as you can, and as a lot of ways to present are offered, pick the one that’s easiest for you!”

MATHCOUNTS

Congratulations to the SPS MATHCOUNTS team for their first-place finish at the Frederick Chapter/Regional MATHCOUNTS competition! Not only did the team come in first out of 15 schools, but Thomas placed first out of 116 students! They will go on to compete at States on March 15. Go Lions!

American Invitational Mathematics Exam

Congratulations to Bella Zhu and Ivan Yuan for being invited to take the AIME. This is the first in the series of exams, followed by the USA Mathematical Olympiad and Junior Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO and USAJMO).Only students who perform exceptionally well on the AMC 10 or AMC 12 are invited to continue participating in the MAA AMC series of examinations that culminate in the selection process for the USA International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) team.

In addition, Ivan Yuan, Jimmy He, and Loki Ye received the Honor Roll Certificate in the AMC8 math competition for scoring in the top 5% nationally.