An East Penn Education Is a World Class Education (Stop the Generalizations, One District at a Time)
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An East Penn Education is a World Class Education (Stop The Generalizations, One District At A Time) Emmaus High School Academics Class of 2009, 81% of students will be attending some form of higher education. The majority or 56% of graduates are attending a 4-year college or university, 23% are attending a 2-year college, and 2% will be heading to a business, nursing, or technology school. A senior, female student won First Place in Microbiology during the 2010 Delaware Valley Science Fair. The first place award included two scholarship offers totaling over $80,000. This student also received special monetary awards from Astra Zeneca and the Parenteral Drug Association. She also received special recognition from the American Society for Microbiology/Eastern, PA and the Society for In Vitro Biology. The title of the research was “Interactions between Cohesion and RFC Complexes in Yeast”. She also competed in the Pennsylvania Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and won a first place in her category of Life Sciences and a second place overall. This also included monetary awards. This same student has a summer internship with the National Cancer Institute. She will be spending ten weeks at the Institute this summer working on a research project related to genetic disorders. She will be compensated for her time and effort. This student has also been inducted into the DaVinci Center Hall of Fame. She was recognized for her extensive involvement in genetic research and the numerous awards she has earned. This prestigious award recognizes her as an outstanding young scientist. A senior, male student has been selected as the recipient of the Cohen and Feeley “Best of the Best Award” for Emmaus High School. He will receive $250.00 at the awards breakfast, and in addition, a check for $100.00 will be sent to the charity of his choice. A female member of the high school Envirothon Team was honored with the 2010 Student Ecologist award by the Lehigh Gap Nature Center. According to Dan Kunkle, director of the Center, she was recognized for her “outstanding work on the behalf of wildlife and the environment.” She has been a committed member of the EHS Envirothon Team, serving as president for the past two years. She was an exceptional student in the Environment Science AP class, and took first place in ecology at both the Cedar Crest College Biology Olympics and the 2009 PA Science Olympiad. She has been a dedicated volunteer at the Wildlands Conservancy Pool Sanctuary for eight years. Six National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and thirteen students commended in the 2010 National Merit Program. Congratulations to the students who have been selected as the Academic/Scholastic Scrimmage team for 2009-10. This team competes in the western division of the Lehigh Valley League and on Channel 39's Scholastic Scrimmage program. Emmaus is the defending champions for the Lehigh Valley League. The JV Academic team had an undefeated season and came in first in the Lehigh Valley Western Division. The entire team recently competed against 678 national and international teams in the Knowledge Master Open. The team placed 3rd in Pennsylvania and 30th in the nation. Sixty Students at Emmaus High School have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement (AP) Exams. Seven students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a 5-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams. Twenty students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Sixteen students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Twenty-four students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher. East Penn School District Science Department ranks in the top 13% on Science PSSA's. The district scores in the 87.4 percentile. Lehigh County Technology Institute Academic Center Students-Skills USA District Competition Winners were in the following fields. Advertising Design (3rd place), Automotive Refinishing (2nd place), Cake Decorating (1st place), Carpentry (2nd place), Commercial Baking (1st place), Culinary Arts (2nd place), Heavy Equipment Operations (Bye to States), Industrial Motor Control (3rd place), Nail Care (3rd place), and Quiz Bowl Team (3rd place). Emmaus High School computer science students are competing at the International INVITATIONAL All-Star Contest over Memorial Day weekend for the 25th time in the last 28 years. We are currently 10th in the nation at both the Senior and Intermediate Level among many other private academies and science and math magnet schools. Two eleventh grade English classes took their show on the road and voluntarily read and prepared activities for second graders within the district. The experience improved the reading skills of the readers and the readees. These eleventh graders performed a community service, served as role models, and enjoyed the experience. A female student placed in the top 20 in the annual Penn State Writing Contest. Two students recently represented Emmaus High School at the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, an extraordinary program that inspires and motivates our nation's most promising future physicians. These students were nominated by EHS science teacher, Mr. Keith Butler. Mr. Butler has been recognized as an honorary member of the National Nominating Committee for the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine. The French Honor Society inducted twenty-one members, the Latin Honor Society gained five members, the German Honor Society added ten members, and the Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica Capitulo Miro gained fifty eleventh graders and sixteen twelfth graders. A female student presented her abstract paper titled, "Interaction between Structural Cohesin and Replication Factor Compleses in Yeast," at the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Conference organized by Lehigh University. Twenty-seven students from Emmaus High School were selected to perform at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 10 Chorus Festival. Nineteen students were ranked in the top 10. The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers sponsors The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Nearly 100,000 students accept the challenge to submit work on the regional level. Any student receiving a gold award on the regional level then competes on the national level. Students who receive silver or honorable mention awards will display their works at the Allentown Art Museum. There are nine students competing on the national level, twenty-five students received a silver medal, and seventeen students had a honorable mention. One student received the Dr. Christine Oaklander Merit Award. Thirty-one Emmaus High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) won awards at the Region 28 Leadership Conference. Sixteen students will continue on at the PA FBLA State Leadership Conference. To celebrate Computer Science Education Week, Carlen Blackstone sponsored "Design Your Best Algorithm". An 11th grade male student won first place by creating an algorithm for grading multiple choice tests and another 11th grade male student won second place with an algorithm to calculate the compound interest in a bank account. The American Computer Science League also had its first contest and the Intermediate Division of first-year programmers got an 49 out of 50 and the Senior Division of more advanced students got a 46 out of 50. Both teams are ranked nationally in the top 10 schools. PA Math League Three students had perfect scores on at least one of the 6 contests throughout the year: American Math Competition Two Emmaus students achieved high enough scores to advance to the next level of competition, The American Invitational Math Exam (AIME). One student advanced to the AMC-10 and the other advanced to the AMC-12. Lehigh University Math Contest The Emmaus teams came in 7th among 10th grade teams, and 8th among 11th grade teams. This contest had 308 participants from 52 schools. Also, based on the Lehigh University test scores, three students have been selected to participate in the American Regions Math League (ARML) competition in June. Moody’s Mega Math Challenge On a March weekend, 633 teams from 18 states competed in Moody’s Mega Math Challenge 2010, submitting solution papers that attempted to aid Congress in matters related to the census. The Emmaus team worked for 14 hours on a Saturday, using mathematics modeling techniques to develop and defend their answers to the problem. The team received one of 31 honorable mention prizes of $1000 toward college expenses. Calculus League This year Advanced Calculus students participated in the National Calculus League contest. Bucknell University Contest The Emmaus High School team came in first place. Muhlenberg University Contest The Emmaus team came in second place. Three students represented Emmaus High School at the 37th Professor John Steiner Gold Mathematical Competition at Bucknell University. The team competed against students from 31 other high schools. These students received 1st place team, a 3rd place and 6th place for individual winners, and a honorable mention. For the third consecutive year, The Steel Hornets Robotic Team traveled to Atlanta to compete in the WorldChampionship Event held by FIRST, the organization that runs the league. Of over 1300 teams worldwide, the best 100 are invited to the World Championship event. The Steel Hornets placed 42nd at World, a great finish. The team received the “Inspire Award” which is the highest honor that our league has to offer.