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In May 2019, ACS senior Elena Lapteva won
the de-Lux Prize for creative writing, while ACS
junior Elitsa Bineva scored the third place.
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ACS 9th grader Ognyan Trayanov’s and 11th
grader Boris Radulov’s project in the Applied
programs category for the mobile app
“Augmented Reality Training” obtained the
impressive 85 points at the National Olympiad
in Information Technology in Vratsa and ranked
fourth among the 20 best projects in the
country.
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On May 9, ACS seniors Alexander Nenov, Bistra
West, Matthias Hofmann and Phan Nuyen were
handed the gold badges and certificates at
The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award by
Republic of Bulgaria President Rumen Radev in the presence of H. E. Emma Hopkins, British Ambassador.
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At the beginning of May, ACS senior Kaloyan Kolev received an encouraging award from one of the
oldest, most serious and challenging literature contests – “Petya Dubarova” – for his compositions
“Voice Mail” and “Pink Albatross”. As he himself shares, three years ago he never imagined that writing
poetry would become one of his favorite activities. Apart from his achievements in literature, Kaloyan is
known by the ACS community in several other roles: a physicist, mathematician, programmer, engineer
and a member of the team which developed and produced the infamous “The Teacher” Red Bull
Soapbox award-winning vehicle, a singer and a nationally recognized poet. Is it a surprise then that his
fellow seniors elected him to be the student speaker at their Senior Dinner?
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