CLASS OF 2019
Graduates from the Class of 2019 have been admitted
to prestigious colleges and universities the world
over, including Yale University, MIT, Vassar College,
King’s College and Queen Mary University in London,
the University of Bath, Queen Margaret University
in Edinburgh, The American University of Paris, the
Bocconi University and the Instituto Europeo di Design
in Italy, the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus
University in the Netherlands, the Politécnica de
Madrid in Spain, Tel Aviv University in Israel. They
will study subjects as diverse as Film Production,
Law, Mechanical Engineering, Biology, Architecture,
Dentistry, Urban Planning, Animation, Astrophysics
and Cosmology, Fashion, Forensic Science.
The wonderful Class of 2019 has had many opportunities
open up because of generous philanthropy.
Contributions to the Student Activities Fund made
possible the science forum FISSION, the TEDx event,
and support student clubs and extracurricular
activities like The Fountain literary magazine. And
gifts for scholarships make sure to maintain our high
academic standards. Here are some great graduates
who have been helped by philanthropic contributions:
Joana Nikolova: FISSION honcho, Model UN delegate, founding member of the Circus Club, winner of the
Senior Awards of the departments of Bulgarian Language and Literature, Science, Math and Computer
Science. Summa Cum Laude.
Taniel Gulian: a key FISSION organizer, creator of an amazing mobile app, and of course engineer and
pilot of cart Госпожата which won the Red Bull soapbox race. Magna Cum Laude.
Niya Dobreva: president of the TEDx club and organizer of its great event on campus, organizer of a chess
tournament for families, writer and poet published in The Fountain. Summa Cum Laude.
In loving memory of their classmates Bilyana Boshnakova and Denislav Todorov, senior senators
Nadezhda Ivanova and Dimitar Nemsky started a fundraising initiative: “Both of them loved music, and
it became a central force in their lives. Our idea for the senator project is to buy a piano and a guitar - the
instruments, which Bilyana and Denislav played - as a symbol of their presence at ACS and in our lives.”
The goal was 5000 leva. 7460 leva were raised from students, parents, and friends.
Rest in peace, Bilyana and Denislav!
“Mid-May’19, a parent of a graduating ACS student contacted me to tell me that the Class of 2019 were urgently
collecting money to buy a piano and guitar in memory of their fellow students who had passed, and were short of a
certain amount of money. I decided I had to act quickly so that the piano be ordered immediately and be delivered
to ACS before the graduation ceremony. The piano and the guitar are not just objects of memory, they have “souls”
and every piece of music played on them will bring the souls of these two kids to life.”
Elena Onbright, mother
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