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REMEMBER LEADvision ACHIEVEdistinction CELEBRATEawesome INSPIREhonour PERSEVERANCE REACH integrity 2019 ENJOY MERIT District Student Awards EXCELLENCE HONOURING STUDENT EXCELLENCE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD The District Academic Excellence Award is open to Grade 12 students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement in a range of subjects in International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement or regular programming. Daniel Carleton Imre Papp Academy at King Edward Eastglen School Daniel had the highest academic standing in the Grade Imre Papp was an exceptional student who characterized 12 program at King Edward. He was a highly motivated the traits of this award on a daily basis, all while young man with aspirations of entering the world of maintaining a sense of humour and expressing gratitude broadcast journalism after first joining the military. He for all those who helped him on his academic adventure. was elected to be a part of the 2018–19 Edmonton Public He was a full Advanced Placement student throughout School’s Student Senate. Daniel chose to get involved high school, which demonstrated his dedication and in Student Senate to build his leadership capacity and engagement. Imre showed commitment to the highest represent the voices of his peers. Principal Denise McNeill level of excellence in all of his subject areas while also said, “I am proud to say Daniel represented the Academy creating and maintaining a sense of collaboration with at King Edward in a positive light, and helped other fellow students and teachers. His entrepreneurial spirit students appreciate what our program strives to do, was revealed through discussions and in his enthusiastic in supporting students who struggle academically.” involvement in school activities. Jocelyn Abraham-Sinclair Naomi Lee amiskwaciy Academy Edmonton Christian High School Teachers unanimously agreed Jocelyn was well deserving Naomi was a hard working student. She went to class of this award. She showed tremendous growth and prepared and ready for every lesson. She was a diligent found her voice in the amiskwaciy Academy community. student who strived for excellent grades. Her studious and ambitious personality allowed her to succeed in all of her academic endeavours. Notably, Jocelyn was successful in completing a dual credit university level course between amiskwaciy Academy and MacEwan University. 2 Edmonton Public Schools District Student Awards 2019 Honouring Student Excellence Remi Hou Erin Anderson Harry Ainlay School Lillian Osborne School Remi Hou was an International Baccalaureate diploma Erin was a high achiever who strived for academic candidate who attained the highest academic standing at excellence throughout school. She achieved high average Harry Ainlay in his Grade 12 year. He successfully achieved awards all through junior high and continued in high Honours with Distinction status in all of his academic school, gaining honours standing and the highest courses including the humanities, mathematics and grade-wide average in Grades 11 and 12. She excelled sciences. In addition to his academic accomplishments, particularly in the more creative subjects, although the Remi developed a curiosity in computing science and sciences were not left behind as evident by her 95 per challenged himself in various math competitions cent on her Science 30 exam. throughout high school. To balance his scholastic life, he successfully completed his Grade 8 Royal Conservatory Lawrence Wang of Music piano and theory exam, organized the Operation M.E. LaZerte School Christmas Child campaign at the school, and competed with Harry Ainlay’s swim team. Remi volunteered with Lawrence achieved exceptional grades in all his Hope Mission and tutored peers in various subjects. courses, which included very challenging International Remi approached everything with great character, Baccalaureate courses. His grades were near perfect in commitment, rigor and diligence; he was clearly well many of his courses, and his teachers described him respected by the students and staff at Harry Ainlay. as always striving to do his best. He was an innovative thinker, and an organized, motivated and determined student that produced exceptional work. Lawrence was Aditya Chilwal also heavily involved in extracurricular activities that made J. Percy Page School a difference in the community. His involvement with Aditya was one of the highest achieving students at mentoring other students, tutoring and environmental J. Percy Page, consistently ranking in the top 10 for initiatives showed commitment to making the community overall academic average. He maintained an overall a better place. Lawrence’s wide and varied extracurricular Honours with Distinction standing in each of his three pursuits and engagement in the classroom afforded him years at our school. Aditya attained an average of the opportunity to be a leader and a strong role model for 100 per cent in each of Math 30-1AP, Math 31AP and fellow students at M.E. LaZerte. Physics 30. He also attained an average of 99 per cent in Biology 30AP, 95 per cent in each of Chemistry 30AP and Krupa Patel English Language Arts 30-1AP, and an average of 94 per McNally School cent in Social Studies 30-1AP. Aditya also participated in second language studies and instrumental music studies. Krupa was an International Baccalaureate full diploma He was a respectful, diligent, hard working, engaged student and one of the top academic students at McNally. and reflective learner who had a passion for seeking She was highly engaged in her studies, always asked to understand. questions and sought to further understand what she was learning. Out of curiosity, Krupa also engaged in the exploration of topics on her own. Principal Lisa Wright David Dobrotvorskyy said, “She was incredibly humble about her academic Jasper Place School abilities; her level of humility was astounding.” She was As a member of the Jasper Place provincial champion always willing to tutor and help classmates with their senior boys volleyball team, David consistently maintained work. Krupa was very self-motivated and tenacious in an Honours with Distinction academic standing and was her work. She saw things through to completion and enrolled in multiple challenging Advanced Placement (AP) could always be relied upon for help—anywhere from classes. His had a very rigorous academic timetable and the classroom to the school community. She welcomed relished the challenge and enrichment the AP program incoming Grade 10 students to the school as a Tiger offered. David was an integral part of the school’s peer Squad leader and represented McNally School as a tutoring program, and he took great enjoyment in student representative at the open house. She was helping his fellow students, who greatly respected and always optimistic about what she was engaged in appreciated his efforts. His extracurricular schedule was and spread that positive influence to those around her. full but he continued to demonstrate a willingness to give back to his community by being a volunteer volleyball coach. Honouring Student Excellence Edmonton Public Schools District Student Awards 2019 3 Wendi Yu Katherine Li Old Scona School Strathcona School Wendi had the highest academic standing, was in Katherine’s academic achievements were the epitome of numerous International Baccalaureate courses and took excellence. Throughout high school, she was enrolled in all three sciences. She demonstrated in classes as well a full Advanced Placement program and maintained an as outside of classes, that she was an engaged learner. average above 99 per cent, which made her one of the To engage others in learning, she taught her knowledge truly elite. Katherine was a success-oriented individual of anatomy in the medicine outreach club every Monday with boundless determination. She set high goals for at lunch. Her ethics were sound and she loved learning. herself, and then worked diligently to achieve them. She participated in the HackED at the University of For Katherine, mediocre was just not good enough. Alberta and was the lead on one of the top three She continually strived to understand why, not just how, teams, most of which were university students. and always searched for practical applications to her knowledge. She had confidence in her abilities, and this, Yashaswi (Yash) Bhandari together with her outstanding work ethic, produced excellent results. Katherine was an outstanding leader Queen Elizabeth School and role model at Strathcona. She had a positive attitude, Yash Bhandari was a truly exceptional student, that both about herself and towards others and strived to see not only stood out among his peers, but also within good in every person she met. She conducted herself the school’s student history. He consistently achieved with the utmost dignity and was respected and admired academic excellence, including final marks of 100 per cent by her peers. in computer science and calculus. He also consistently challenged himself within the Advanced Placement (AP) program. For his AP exams, he achieved scores of five Karen Waggoner (the highest possible), including exams he independently Victoria School of the Arts prepared for outside of school. In Grade 12, in addition Karen had incredible passion and work ethic for learning. to formally completing the AP program, he challenged Throughout her time at Victoria, she demonstrated what two additional AP exams. As an engaged citizen, Yash’s it meant to be an engaged learner pursuing her own