ACS ANNUAL GIVING REPORT 2018-2019 ACS Giving Report 2019-11-novemb | Page 15

*** In May 2019, ACS senior Elena Lapteva won the de-Lux Prize for creative writing, while ACS junior Elitsa Bineva scored the third place. *** 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. *** 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. *** 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? 15