Kenston High School senior Samuel Kress has been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Progam as a National Merit Finalist by demonstrating through distinguished performance and a high potential for future accomplishment.
National Merit Finalist
Kenston High School senior Samuel Kress has been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Progam as a National Merit Finalist by demonstrating through distinguished performance and a high potential for future accomplishment. He will be attending the University of Kentucky.
The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual academic competition that honors talented U.S. high school students. Finalists are the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represent the top 1 percent of the state’s senior students. Students qualify for recognition in the National Merit programs with their scores on the PSAT/NMSWT.
About 15,000 of the 16,000 semifinalists named in September 2018 have met all requirements to advance to finalist standing in the competition. All finalists will be considered for National Merit Scholarships offered in 2019. Of this group, about 7,500 seniors are awarded scholarships of $2,500 that can be renewed each college year.
Making a Difference
For the fourth year, students in Mr. Christian Barrus’ Honors and AP Physics classes have worked with the RePlay for Kids organization to adapt toys with assistive devices for children who need them. Physics students learned about basic electronics, problem-solving and the needs of children with disabilities.
Senior Justin Fuller, along with his classmates, modified 44 toys, rainbow lights, bobblehead robots, bubble camera and dancing characters for children with disabilities. This is the first year that the lab was run entirely by Mr. Barrus and his student teacher Natalie Nielsen.
KMS Students of the Month
Kenston Middle School is pleased to announce their May Students of the Month.
Students selected for Student of the Month honors are sixth-graders William Eisner, Ashlyn Hunter, Annabell Prichard and Mason Schurr; seventh-graders Rachel Lechak, Garrett Mauck, Erin McFadden and Aaron Moss; and eighth-graders Mara DuBay, Ben Hamilton, Jonah Morgan, Abby Ohlsen and Riley Quinlan.
Kenston Middle School Students of the Quarter
Kenston Middle School is pleased to announce their Students of the Quarter for the fourth nine weeks of the school year.
They are sixth-graders AJ Fender and Isabella Otero; seventh-graders Sean Patrick and Alysa Stefancin; and eighth-graders Anne Costello and Michael Dubois. The students are selected by their Encore teachers that include those teaching world languages, technology integration, health, physical education, choir and band.
President’s Award of Excellence 2019
The President’s Education Awards Program was founded in 1983 on behalf of the President of the United States and the United States Secretary of Education. The purpose of the program is to recognize and honor U.S. students in elementary, middle and high school. The program has provided individual recognition from the President and the United States and the Secretary of Education to those students whose outstanding efforts have enabled them to meet challenging standards of excellence. To receive the President’s Award for Educational Excellence at Kenston High School, students must achieve a minimum grade point average of 3.5 while committing to at least 100 hours for seniors, 75 hours for juniors, 50 hours for sophomores and 25 hours for freshman of community service per grade level.
Each year thousands of students are deserving of this recognition in the United States. For the 2018-19 school year, Kenston High School recognizes over 150 students.
Seniors are: Madeline Barto, Jacob Baucco, Samara Benza, Amelia Broadbent, Greyson Byrnes, David Cooper, Irene Czernicki, Kayla Drcar, Madelyn Engoglia, Julia Fugedy, Isabelle Gabram, William Glime, Blaise Gorski, Emily Hall, Haley Hall, Victoria Hammerle, Arianna Iosue, Sophia Irvin, Maria Jerina, Angela Judge, Rachel Judge, Benjamin Kapcio, Allyson Klotz, Delaney Kramer, Samuel Kress, Alexandra Lesner, Jakob McConnell, Colin Montville, Julia Morey, Tanner Mulhern, Grant Nelson, Ryan Nelson, Zachary Nemeth, Christa Niemann, Phoebe Peiffer, Gabrielle Powell, Connor Quinlan, Megan Randall, Sarah Richardson, Anna Rini, Makayla Robertson, Jack Roman, Peyton Roth, Seth Samidan, Anna Sanders, Santina Scafidi, Kaleigh Seely, Samuel Selent, Haleigh Shafer, Nicholas Slezak, Anna Snyder, Jessica Sunderhaft, Brooke Taylor, Kathryn Taylor, Lauren Thomas, Ryan Tien, Paige Toft, William Toth, Britta Treu, Shelbie Van Asche, Emily Walker and Jenna Wrona.
Juniorsrecognized are: Jonathan Abbarno, Hannah Andrews, Alexandra Barrett, Sarah Bennett, Isabella Benz, Spencer Brown, William Burr, Emily Cronin, Kayla Eastman, Matthew Fantauzzo, Adam Farrell, Rachel Flack, Weston Gaskins, Evan Glasscock, Amanda Glime, Mya Gordon, James Horwitz, Madison Journey, Zamir Khan, Benjamin Knapik, John Kratzert, Gianna LaSalvia, Annika Markoff, Joshua Masters, Benjamin McGinnis, Tyler Mesnick, Morgan Owen, Anya Parsons, Laura Parsons, Madeline Peters, Peyton Raypholtz, McKenna Sawyer, Isabelle Seewald, Graci Skala, Sarah Soryal, Robert Sunderhaft, Aubrey Taylor, Chloe Thomas, Logan Vargo, Lillian Vild, Natalie Wasinski, Isabel Weinhofer, Alan Wood and Marin Zoretich.
Sophomores honored were: Margaret Adams, Delaney Bochenek, Brooke Bower, Alexa Busby, Skylar Cinch, Molly Cohen, Elizabeth Cooper, Henry Cregar, Summer Davidson, Margaret Eibler, Hannah Fender, Brennan Fisher, Nathaniel Gaskins, Sean Gurd, Molly Hubert, Courtney Keane, Maegen Manning, Colin Mast, Maris McKnight, Nyla Morrison, Chloe Peiffer, Morgan Polcar, Halle Preneta, Kyle Quinlan, Carley Riggins-Link, Madeline Scarvelli, Nathan Spencer, Colin Varga, Maria Vincenti, Maxwell Vollrath and Andrew Watts.
Freshman recognized for their academic and community service were: Dominic Alandt, Alec Barrett, Alexander Bayus, Madeleine Blazey, Valerie Brown, Rachel Fender, Gwen Gembarski, Micah Greenberg, Ashley Handwerk, Jennifer Kapcio, Kathryn Klotz, Braden Krupp, Julia Lechak, Elena Lioudis, Ronja Markoff, Kaitlyn McFadden, Rourke McGrath, Matthew Pierce, Zachary Pijor, Ella Wenger, Maximus Yost and Michael Yost.
