SAINT JAMES SCHOOL TEAMS
QUALIFY FOR NATIONALS
Four groups of Saint James School students competed in TEAMS (Tests
of Engineering Aptitude, Math, and Science) on March 4, 2020. The
participants completed two parts of the competition: the problem-
solving component and the design-and-build component. In the
attached photo, the 11th and 12th grade team (Team A) from Saint
James is shown with their load-bearing crane construction. Team A
(Jack Branham, Na Yoon Kang, Andrew Kellum, Ellie Kim, Trevor Otis,
Gayeon Paek, Alex Whisenhunt, and Su Yun) earned the 3rd place
trophy for the problem-solving component with an excellent score of
55. (The first place team had a score of 57!) The team has qualified to
compete in the TEAMS National Competition in late June in Nashville.
The statewide ranking for the three components of the competition will
be available in late April.
PCA STUDENT SELECTED FOR UA
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
TWO MONTGOMERY
ACADEMY STUDENTS NAMED
NATIONAL MERIT FINALISTS
Montgomery Academy seniors Femi
Adediji and Kelly Yoon have been named
Finalists in the 65th annual National Merit
Scholarship Program. These academically
talented students have an opportunity
to continue in the competition for some
7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth
more than $31 million that will be offered
this spring. Over 1.6 million juniors in
about 22,000 high schools entered the 2020
National Merit Scholarship Program by
taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National
Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/
NMSQT), which served as an initial screen
of program entrants. The nationwide pool
of Semifinalists, representing less than one
percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes
the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
Maddie Jeffery was a key contributor in PCA’s Division B Science
Olympiad team’s success during its 2018-2019 season, and one of the
top female runners on PCA’s cross country team this past season. She
has been selected to participate in the University of Alabama’s Capstone
Leadership Academy (CLA) later this spring at the Hotel Capstone,
located in the heart of campus. Every year, the CLA welcomes just
100 sophomores from across the state, and this year, Maddie has been
invited to attend this prestigious conference.
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| Summer 2020
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