Hilltopper Highlights 2012 - Westmont Hilltop School District
Hilltopper Highlights 2012 - Westmont Hilltop School District
Hilltopper Highlights 2012 - Westmont Hilltop School District
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Middle <strong>School</strong> Achievement<br />
WordMasters<br />
The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking. Students are<br />
given a list of 25 words with which they must become familiar by learning<br />
their definitions and parts of speech. Students then practice using the words in<br />
analogies. The competition is a list of 20 analogies using the words learned up<br />
to that point in the competition. The English teachers in 5th through 8th grade<br />
work with the students to help them<br />
learn the words before the competitions<br />
three times a year. At the end of<br />
the year, scores for all three tests are<br />
totaled to determine the medal and<br />
certificate winners at each grade level.<br />
Completing these analogies is very<br />
difficult. By the third meet, students<br />
have 75 words. This year we had several<br />
students earn a perfect score on<br />
one of the three meets.<br />
5th Grade Top 10 in WordMasters<br />
WordMasters, Grades 5 & 6 – Row 1: Katherine Witsberger, Julie Duong, Sydney Podrebarac, Ariana Santos,<br />
Ethan Dubnansky Row 2: Rebekah Kevenk, Julia Bingler, Maeve Milligan, Amelia Aiken, Zoey Zentkovich, Leo<br />
Cosgrove, Clinton Sparling Row 3: Moses Zeidan, Lily Dudash, Susan Williams, Vaughan Kramer, Hannah Davis,<br />
Mackenzie Dunn, Madison Reitter, Grayson Moyer<br />
Principal’s Excellence Award<br />
Honoring student achievement and hard work is the purpose of the President’s<br />
Educational Excellence Award Program. Students who received this<br />
honor scored 92 percent or above in Grades 5, 6, 7, and the fall semester of<br />
Grade 8. They also scored advanced in mathematics and reading on the Grade<br />
7 PSSA.<br />
The following students received<br />
Honorable Mention.<br />
Julia Bingler<br />
Katherine Witsberger<br />
Sydney Podrebarac<br />
(earned a perfect score in Meet 1)<br />
Rebekah Kevenk<br />
Julie Duong<br />
Lily Dudash<br />
Maeve Milligan<br />
The following students tied for<br />
first place, earned High Honors,<br />
and are this year’s medal winners.<br />
Amelia Aiken<br />
(earned a perfect score in Meet 2)<br />
Susan Williams<br />
Moses Zeidan<br />
(earned a perfect score in Meet 1)<br />
6th Grade Top 10 in WordMasters<br />
Leo Cosgrove<br />
Hannah Davis<br />
Ethan Dubnansky<br />
Mackenzie Dunn<br />
Vaughan Kramer<br />
(earned a perfect score in Meet 1)<br />
Grayson Moyer<br />
Madison Reitter<br />
Ariana Santos<br />
Clinton Sparling<br />
Zoey Zentkovich<br />
All of our Top 10 sixth graders<br />
earned High Honors. There were two<br />
6th graders who tied for the top score<br />
this year. The medal winners were Leo<br />
Cosgrove and Vaughan Kramer.<br />
Principal’s Excellence Award, Grade 8 – Row 1: Zachary Vliet, Bryan Mock Row 2: Emily Brazill, Bethany<br />
Carney, Rita Bekhash Row 3: Sarah Minnick, Mitchell Hochfeld, Ashley Kush<br />
10 “Middle <strong>School</strong> Achievement”
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