PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT Isabel Yates ’23 earns poetry accolades, awards Congratulations, to Isabel Yates ’23, on being selected a 2021 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series mentee for the central North Carolina region by the North Carolina Poetry Society. This mentoring program links established poets in three regions of North Carolina with emerging poets, enabling them to develop and perfect their lyric craft. Students in middle school, high school, and college, and adults not in school may apply to work with a Distinguished Poet during the winter months. Isabel will work with distinguished poet Dasan Ahanu. She will also collaborate with other selected students on a book and participate in poetry readings this spring. Isabel was encouraged to enter the contest in the fall by her teacher, Alison Chernin, instructor of English. Isabel also won regional Golden Key Awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition for her work originally created for the Life in a History Book project in Melissa Ramel's class. Of the five poetry portfolios she submitted, three won Golden Key Awards and two earned honorable mention. Her three Golden Key Award entries will move on to the national level competition. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards program is the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens.
Saylah Rogers ’21 earns DAR Good Citizen and Scholarship Awards Congratulations, to Saint Mary’s graduating senior Saylah Rogers ’21, who has received the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award and Scholarship. The DAR Good Citizens Award and Scholarship Contest, created in 1934, is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. This award recognizes and rewards individuals who possess the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities. These students are selected by their teachers and peers because they demonstrate these qualities to an outstanding degree. The student must have the qualities of truthfulness, loyalty, punctuality trustworthiness, cooperation, courtesy, personality, self-control, ability to assume responsibility, ability to inspire others, devotion to country, and an advocate for causes that make one’s community stronger, among other traits. That’s our Saylah!
Elizabeth Zhang ’23 excels in Brain Bee Congratulations, to Saint Mary's 10th grader Elizabeth Zhang '23 of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, on placing second in the 2021 China Brain Bee, among more than 2200 participants in the Jiangsu regional competition. With her second-place finish, she advanced to the national competition. The Brain Bee is a neuroscience competition for teenagers with competitions held internationally. Well done!
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