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• Fox Chapel Area High School seniors Alyssa DiPaolo and Bridget Wang were named candidates
in the 2018 United States Presidential Scholars Program. Approximately 4,000 students from
across the U.S., and 103 from Pennsylvania, were selected as candidates. Students are chosen
based on their high academic achievement, personal characteristics, leadership and service
activities, and an essay.
• Two high school sophomores, Hanna Chen and Claire Fenton, received gold medals in the
National Latin Exam. Four other high school students received honors in the exam including
senior Delaney Roberts, juniors Marissa Hardiman and Elizabeth Kaslewicz, and freshman
Amulya Garimella.
• High school sophomore Rajeev Godse fi nished among the top 32 Lincoln Douglas debaters
at the Patriot Games Classic Tournament held at George Mason University. More than 1,500
students representing approximately 115 high school speech and debate programs from
across the U.S. participated in the tournament.
• Six high school students earned fi rst through fourth places at the 2018 Future Business
Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference and qualifi ed to participate in the
national conference. They include juniors Daniel Andrud and Noah Fritsch and freshmen
David Kronman, Emily Li, Kaylee Werner, and Zoey Zoschg.
• Three Fox Chapel Area High School students placed in their events at the Pittsburgh
Diocesan Qualifying Tournament for the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National
Championship Tournament. Senior Sara Puthenpurayil, sophomore Rajeev Godse, and
freshman Jackson Romero advanced to compete at the Grand National Championship
Tournament.
• Junior Annika Urban was named a third-place winner for her essay entitled “The Hidden
Dangers of Persistence” in the Eleventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Scholar Award.
The award is part of a writing competition open to Pennsylvania public school juniors
and students submitted an original essay.
• Three seniors, Cassidy Carson in German and Lea Prato and Kacie Zakin in Spanish, were
named Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association Global Scholars.
• Four high school students were named among the Elite Top 100 in the Trib Total Media’s
2018 Outstanding Young Citizen Awards Program and senior Helen Paulini was named a
gold medalist.
• High school sophomore Grace Han
placed in the FBI Pittsburgh’s annual
HOPE (Heroin Outreach Prevention and
Education) PSA Contest. For the contest,
Grace created a PSA-awareness video on
the dangers of choosing to use opioids in
an effort to combat the crisis confronting
our region. Her award-winning video can
be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_X3fbRWTHVg&t=66s.
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