2024-2025 FOX CHAPEL AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT STATE OF THE SCHOOLS
• Three students were named national Silver Medal winners in the 2025 Scholastic Writing Awards: freshman Eliana Wellman and eighth-graders Kai Galyardt and Celestial Hou. Other students qualifying for national judging were senior Gabriella Hample, sophomore HanYing Zhang, and eighth-graders Brooke Nalevanko and Carly Phatak. Additionally, Gabriella was named an American Voices nominee for the Pittsburgh region, the highest award that can be given in the competition.
• Junior Ulyana Kubini was named a 2025 Carson Scholar, and junior Joanna Li had her status as a Carson Scholar renewed. Thousands of students from across the nation are nominated each year by educators based on their high academic achievement and their commitment to their communities through community service.
• Several students placed at the 2025 Future Business Leaders of America( FBLA) State Leadership Conference. Senior Gabriella Hample; junior Mikayla Feder; sophomores Aiden Drucker, Noelle Fouron, and Ainsley Goode; and eighth-graders Dyutit Patro and Anaia Shehzad won first place. Junior Michael Costello and eighth-graders Zoey Liu and Maya Vyas won second place. Junior Joanna Li and eighth-graders Rishabh Krishnamurthy and Chloe Pick won third place. Juniors Zelia Herald, Zinta Jacob, and Joshua Shah and sophomore Braxton Bielawski all won fourth place. All 17 of these students qualified to participate in the FBLA National Leadership Conference. The Dorseyville Middle School first-place state winner in an open event( not eligible for the national competition) was eighth-grader Micah Ramirez.
• Fox Chapel Area High School junior Karsten Buchert was named a national winner in the Congressional Essay Contest for high school students run by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Karsten was one of approximately 50 winners from across the nation and one of only three from Pennsylvania.
• Two high school students won first-place awards at Model United Nations( UN) Conferences: senior Benjamin Fiedler and junior Ori Goldin.
• Two high school students qualified for the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Chicago: juniors Joanna Li and Zachary Rubin.
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