Accolades and Awards

Camila Goes to Washington

Camila Del Bosque (’20) was selected as one of five “Future Leaders of America” by the Fulton County Law Week Committee. Her recognition earned her a full scholarship to a week-long summer workshop in Washington, DC, the Washington Workshops Congressional Seminar. “I got to do so many things,” Camila said. “In our free time, we could scooter around and visit historical monuments and museums.” Camila spent most of her time at the workshop learning about the United States Congress, the Supreme Court, embassies, and executive agencies by meeting with Members of Congress, government officials, diplomats, lobbyists, and professors. “It was such an amazing experience – way better than I even expected,” Camila said. “It was so cool to meet new people with the same interests as me and who were so passionate about them.”

8th Grade Earns 2nd at Battle of the Books

Congratulations to the team of 8th-grade students who placed 2nd at this year’s Archdiocesan Battle of the Books. The competition is a quiz bowl style contest where students answer questions about a catalogue of over 20 predetermined books. Successful students learn those books inside and out over just a few months prior to competition.

Holy Spirit Prep was one of eight teams at the Battle of the Books contest, and advanced through over 6 rounds before competing in the final contest, with the rest of the schools as their audience. The 8 th grade team was: Emil Sacco, Zhen Napier, Adam Anulewicz, and Bernadette Grantham.

Vincent Wins Stock Market Game

Mrs. Kenny recently challenged her 5th -7th grade Seton Center students to participate in the Georgia Council of Economic Education’s statewide Stock Market Game. The 10-week competition challenged teams or individuals to mock-invest $100,000 in the U.S. stock market, with the team with the strongest portfolio at the end of the 10-weeks declared the winner.

Congratulations goes to Vincent Casal, whose portfolio valued at $113,268.04 earned him 1st place in the region. Vincent was honored at an awards luncheon at the Fox Theater.

Several other Holy Spirit Prep teams placed in the top 10 out of 65 teams in the region: Cuahutli Santillan and Ulises Ramirez Sanroman (4th ); Maddie Van Oss, Sophia Cardillo, and Ciara Berggren (8th ), and Brady Van Oss (10th ).

Watson Selected as National Merit Finalist

Watson Casal, co-valedictorian of the Class of 2019, alongside Mikayla Brown, was named a National Merit Finalist. Out of 1.6 million high school students who applied for the honor, Watson is among 15,000 students recognized as a National Merit Finalist (that’s the top 0.1% of students). He was selected not only on the basis of his outstanding test scores and grades, but on his resume of accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous college studies. This fall, Watson joined the engineering program at Georgia Tech.