Hathaway Brown School is proud to announce today that three of its seniors have been named semifinalists and one of the three named a regional finalist in the 2016 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology for their multiyear original research projects through the Science Research & Engineering Program (SREP). Hathaway Brown is the only school in the state of Ohio with more than one semifinalist in this year's competition.

Congratulations to (L-R) Margaret Broihier, Gigi Protasiewicz, and Zoë Solt. Solt has also been named a 2016 Siemens Regional Finalist out of 30 individuals and 30 teams in the United States. In November, she will compete for one of six of the national finalists slots.

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Broihier has worked three summers on her research in the Case Western School of Medicine in the Department of Neurosciences with Dr. Gary Landreth and graduate student, Taylor Jay. The work she submitted to Siemens is on the topic of The Role of TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease (AD). She reports that there are fewer immune cells in the brain of AD mouse models due to both a decrease in proliferation (new cells) and an increase in cell death.

Protasiewicz has spent three summers in the Biomedical Engineering laboratory of Dr. Jeff Capadona working with John Hermann at Case Western Reserve University on the project "Evaluating the Presence of Toll-like Receptors at the Intracortical Microelectrode Interface." When an electrode is implanted into the brain for a purpose such as functional improvement after paralysis, it eventually leads to neuroinflammation of the brain and microelectrode failure. Gigi has studied particular neuroinflammatory markers and changes in their expression to improve the longevity of the electrode.

Solt has worked with Dr. Jesse Berezovsky and Robert Badea in the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University for 2.5 years for her project on "Domain Wall Motion in Concave Ferromagnetic Nanowires." She studied various nanowire geometries to identify the best structure to facilitate spin-based electronics starting with computer simulations and progressing to actual fabrication of concave permalloy nanowires.

Launched by the Siemens Foundation in 1999, the Siemens competition is the nation’s premier competition in math, science and technology, promoting excellence in math, science and technology. 

For more information on the Siemens competition, click here. 

Congratulations Margaret, Gigi, and Zoë!

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Clik here to view.Hathaway Brown School is excited to share that, Dani Lawson '17, has committed to play basketball for Purdue University after her senior year at HB.

At a special signing ceremony held in the Anne Cutter Coburn Reception Room, Lawson's family, friends, teammates, teachers, and school administrators joined her in celebration and wished her continued success in her academic and athletic career. 

Congratulations, Dani, and go Blazers!

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Clik here to view.On November 18 & 19, 2016, at 7:30p.m., come see Pride and Prejudice, a new musical!

HB maintains an open seating policy. Ticket prices are $10 for General Admission, $6 for children, students, and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online using our secure server here. 

Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Elizabeth (Lizzy, played by senior Alex Wiebe) as she deals with the struggles of being a woman in 1939 America. Mrs. Bennet (played by senior Sam Scott) is fiercely dedicated to seeing that her girls marry well so that they have no financial worries. But her daughters, particularly Lizzy, have ideas of their own and view Mrs. Bennet's ways as old-fashioned. The rest of the cast is rounded out by seniors Rosalie Phillips (Jane Bennet), Emma Picht (Charlotte Lucas), Anna Hollweg (Aunt Rose), Jasper Solt (Rodney Collins); juniors Noni Akintunde (Uncle Gardiner); sophomores Elizabeth Javorsky (Mary Bennet), Katie Doherty (Lydia Bennet), Josie Carlson (Marji the maid); and freshmen Abby Poulos (Kitty Bennet), Cayla Wilson (Anna Lucas), Emma Young (George Wickham), and Kate Haffke (Caroline Bingley).

Male cast members from University School include junior Isaiah Paik (Fitzwilliam Darcy), and freshmen Jackson Coleman (Charles Bingley) and Adam Holthaus (Mr. Bennet).

Pride and Prejudice, a new musical, is written by Upper School Director of Theatre, Molly Cornwell, with song selections by Upper School Choral Director, Laura Webster. Song selections (c. 1920s-1930s) are from "Great American Songbook," and includes an original piece by Webster. Music arrangements by HB Upper School Vocal Arts Accompanist, Lorenzo Salvagni. Set designs by T. Paul Lowry.

You won't want to miss this play! Learn more and get your tickets to Pride and Prejudice, a new musical, today.

Questions? Contact HB Theatre Director Molly Cornwell at mcornwell@hb.edu or 216.320.8796 ext. 7125. 

Registration is now open for Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute's 2016 Winter Break Program!

Boys and girls in first grade through college are invited to join us on the HB campus December 20 - 29 for amazing theatre arts classes and workshops. Attend for a day, a few days, or come for all six. Classes run 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. every day, with a 30-minute lunch break.*

General information about each of the sessions appears below. You also can find detailed course descriptions and additional details at www.hb.edu/hbtiwinter. Classes are held December 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, and 29. Each session is $40 for a full day or $25 for half day technique classes. Save by enrolling in a full six-day session for $230. Register now and make your payment online using our secure server.

HBTI's Winter Break Program is open to all. Please feel free to share this information with anyone who may be interested in attending.

PRIME is for students in 1st–4th grades. Come and share the FUN: acting, singing, dancing, storytelling, and stagecraft. Each day is filled with arts activities to explore your creativity and imagination. Students will work with trained professional instructors.
Tuition: $40 per day or $230 for the full six days. Note: There is no half day option for the PRIME program.

PERFORMING ARTS TRAINING is for older students in 5th grade–college. Full-day workshops and half day technique classes, with many offered for the first time! Classes are leveled for skill and age. 
Tuition: $40 per day, $25 for half day or $230 for the full six days

--TECHNIQUE CLASSES (Half Day) Students can choose from classes in Ballet, Tap, Lyrical Dance, Monologues, Theatre Life after High School, and Act the Song.

--WORKSHOP (Full Day) Workshops offered include Acting for the Camera (12/20), Stage Combat (12/21), Songs and Scenes (12/22), Choreography Project (12/27), Directing (12/28) and Audition Techniques (12/29)

Faculty includes: John Krol, Dan Hendrock, Ryan Zarecki, Katie Zarecki, India Burton, Kyle Jozsa, Jessica Hirsh, Fred Sternfeld and Bebe Weinberg Katz

Questions? Contact HBTI Director Bebe Weinberg Katz at bkatz@hb.edu or visit the HBTI Winter Break 2016 page online.

*HBTI Winter Break students are encouraged to bring their own drinks and bagged lunches that do not require refrigeration.

Hathaway Brown is one of only three schools in the world to advance more than one team to the Top 64 in International Public Policy Forum debate. The IPPF is a worldwide competition of written debate sponsored by the Bickel and Brewer law firm and New York University. Teams from around the globe wrote preliminary round essays on the topic  “Resolved: The obligation to provide safe haven for refugees should outweigh a government’s right to control its borders.” The Top 64 teams are vying for spots in elimination round bracket, hoping for an all-expenses paid trip to NYC to compete live at the IPPF Finals this coming spring. HB has traditionally fared well in this prestigious competition, even ranking as international runner-up in 2014. This is the first time that more than one HB team has made it this far in the contest. 

HB's Top 64 IPPF teams are:

Team 1 - Alison Xin '19, Jennifer Wang '19, Megan Qiang '19, Sukhmani Kaur '18

Team 2 - Farah Sayed '19, Kathy Wang '19, Angela Zhu '19

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ABOUT IPPF
Founded in 2001 by the law firm of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, the International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) is the only contest that gives high school students around the globe the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues of public policy. Now jointly administered by the Brewer Foundation and New York University, this program is available to all public and private high schools for free.

The competition begins in October, as each school submits a qualifying round essay on the IPPF topic. The essay should be no more than 2,800 words, either affirming or negating the topic resolution. The IPPF Essay Review Committee evaluates each essay, and the top 64 teams earn cash awards and advance into a single-elimination, written debate competition.

In the top 64 round, schools volley papers back and forth via e-mail. Judges review the essays in the order they were presented (affirmative constructive, negative constructive, affirmative rebuttal, negative rebuttal) and select the advancing teams. The process begins anew as the Top 32 teams compete for their chance to advance to the Sweet 16 round.

In March, the "Elite 8" teams are announced. These teams win all-expenses-paid trips to New York City to compete during IPPF Finals Weekend. Ultimately, the IPPF Champion wins a $10,000 grand prize and the Brewer Cup. Learn more here. 

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Clik here to view.Hathaway Brown has been honored with the top spot on Niche's Best Private High Schools in Ohio list for 2017 and we couldn't be prouder! Niche is an online platform that tracks educational institutions and provides research findings for public and private K-12 schools across the country.

Click here to check out the rankings, learn more about HB, and add your review today.

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Clik here to view.Congratulations are in order for Gigi Protasiewicz '17 who won on a 3-0 decision in the High School Debate Championships at the City Club of Cleveland on March 11, 2016. She negated the topic "Resolved: The United States ought promote democracy in the Middle East."

Both Gigi and her competitor, Omer Ashruf of University School, qualified to this debate based on their qualification to the National Tournament from the North Coast District. They will compete in Salt Lake City in June.

This is the 2nd time that an HB student has competed in the City Club debates, and the first time that an HB student has won the debate.

Please join the Hathaway Brown School community in congratulating Gigi and wishing her well on her competition in June! 

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Clik here to view.Hathaway Brown School was pleased to once again host the annual Science Research & Engineering Program Poster Session and Reception. This year’s event took place on Tuesday, March 8 in the school's atrium with 130 students, and five students were selected by judges to represent HB as finalists at upcoming international science fairs. Each winning project represented between two to four years of research in labs at local Cleveland institutions and will go compete for additional prizes. 

This year’s Intel ISEF Finalists are:

• Margaret Broihier, '17: Characterizing the Role of Trem2 in Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. Gary Landreth at Case Western Reserve University
• Caitlin Coyne, '17: In-vitro, Cell Based Screening and Study to Identify Differentiation-Inducing Agents for AML with Dr. David Wald at Case Western Reserve University
• Kavya Ravichandran, '16: A Nanomedicine Approach for Targeted Thrombolysis with Dr. Anirban Sen Gupta at Case Western Reserve University

I-SWEEEP, The International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering, and Environment) Project, is a groundbreaking science fair competition open to high school students organized by Harmony Public Schools, a K-12 Public Charter School System. With the support of leaders in industry and higher education institutions, I-SWEEEP works with local, national, and international science fair organizations to bring top-ranking participants and qualifying projects to Houston each year. Student finalists from local and regional fairs are selected to attend this top international science fair, which takes place April 26-May 1 in Houston, Texas.

This year’s ISWEEEP Finalists are:

• Madeline Howarth, '17: Identification of Macrophage Phenotypic Response Around Neuronal Cell Bodies After Peripheral Nerve Injury with Dr. Richard Zigmond at Case Western Reserve University
• Maaryah Malik, '16: A Time Course Analysis of CelL Cycle and DNA Damage in an Rb/E2F1 Model Related to Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. Hyoung-gon Lee at Case Western Reserve University

Congratulations to these students on their outstanding original research projects!

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Clik here to view.Hathaway Brown Upper School students set a new school record in regional commendations from the Scholastic Art Awards, a longstanding, highly competitive local and national visual arts program. For 2017, 51 awards were earned by 34 HB girls in grades 9-12 in seven different arts categories. The faculty advisors for these award-winning students are members of the HB Upper School Visual Arts Department: Jamie Morse, Shelly Ahern, and Tyler Zeleny. 

HB students earned eight Gold Keys, 15 Silver Keys, and 28 Honorable Mention designations in Ceramics & Glass, Comic Art, Digital Art, Drawing & Illustration, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking. 

VIEW A GALLERY OF GOLD KEY AND SILVER KEY WINNING WORK

All of the HB students' Gold Key and Silver Key award-winning work, as well as digital representations of the Honorable Mention work, will be on display at the Cleveland Institute of Art. An Award Ceremony and Reception for Gold Key recipients will take place in the Peter B. Lewis Auditorium at CIA on Saturday, January 14, at 1 p.m.; the Silver Key Winners Reception will be held in the Reinberger Galleries at CIA that same day at 3 p.m.; and the Honorable Mention Award Winners Reception will be in the Reinberger Galleries on January 14 at 4 p.m. 

Each Gold Key-designated work is eligible for the Scholastic national competition and will be sent to New York City for judging at the close of the exhibition. Click here to view a complete listing of HB winners, including award level, category, title of work, and faculty advisor. 

Congratulations to the following students:

Congratulations are in order for Hathaway Brown seniors Madeline Howarth and Zoë  Solt, who achieved semifinalist status in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for 2017. These two members of Hathaway Brown's signature Science Research & Engineering Program are among only 300 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars selected from 1,749 applicants hailing from 527 high schools in 46 states and seven American and international high schools overseas. The scholars were selected on the basis of their exceptional promise as scientists, excellent record of academic achievement and outstanding recommendations from teachers and other scientists. Regeneron STS scholars receive $2,000 and are in the running to become one of the top 40 Finalists, who will be announced on Tuesday, January 24. Only four Ohio students earned this scholar designation this year. (For the full list of scholars, please click here.)

Madeline conducts research in the Neurosciences Department at Case Western Reserve University under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Zigmond and postdoc Dr. Jon Niemi. Her research focuses on identifying cellular responses that occur after peripheral nerve injury in order to aid in recovery and how these responses could be used to aid in central nervous system recovery in the future.

Zoë has worked with Dr. Jesse Berezovsky and Robert Badea in the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University for two and a half years for her project on "Domain Wall Motion in Concave Ferromagnetic Nanowires." She studied various nanowire geometries to identify the best structure to facilitate spin-based electronics starting with computer simulations and progressing to actual fabrication of concave permalloy nanowires.

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Hathaway Brown is proud to present Summerfest on Saturday, January 28th from 10:00-11:30 a.m. This free interactive event is the perfect way to beat the winter doldrums and let your children enjoy a morning of play. Escape from the winter weather in the HB Atrium with summer-themed music and food as you experience many of the diverse summer offerings that HB has to offer for children of all ages. With crafts, sports, theatre, Legos, and games, there's something fun for everyone!

This event is free and open to the public. Invite your family and friends to join us!

HB offers a wide array of co-ed and all-girls summer adventure, academic, and athletic programs for students in preschool through college. Whether you’re interested in exploring the city, digging for fossils, improving your corner kick, creating a perfect frosting rose, trying stand-up paddle boarding, or learning a new language, you’re sure to be inspired at HB. Choose one or several different programs and customize your own summer fun! Flexible scheduling is available for busy families. Registration will open soon at www.hb.edu/summer. 

We hope to see you at Summerfest! 

Results have been announced, and Hathaway Brown Upper School students had a phenomenal showing in the Scholastic Writing Awards, a longstanding, highly competitive local and national program. For 2017, 113 awards were earned by 58 HB girls in grades 9-12 in nine different writing categories. The faculty advisors for these award-winning students are Director of the Osborne Writing Center Scott Parsons, and other members of the HB Upper School English Department: Beth Armstrong, Michael Ciuni, and Marty Frazier

HB students earned 10 Gold Keys, 43 Silver Keys, and 60 Honorable Mention designations in Critical Essay, Flash Fiction, Humor, Journalism, Personal Essay/Memoir, Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Short Story, and Writing Portfolio. 

An Award Ceremony and Reception for Gold Key recipients will take place in the Peter B. Lewis Auditorium at the Cleveland Institute of Art on Saturday, January 14, at 1 p.m.; the Silver Key Winners Reception will be held in the Reinberger Galleries at CIA that same day at 3 p.m.; and the Honorable Mention Award Winners Reception will be in the Reinberger Galleries on January 14 at 4 p.m. 

Each Gold Key-designated work is eligible for the Scholastic national competition and will be sent to New York City for judging at the close of the exhibition. Click here to view a complete listing of HB winners, including award level, category, title of work, and faculty advisor. 

Congratulations to the following students:

Lina Ghosh '17, Kacey Gill '16, and Catherine Areklett '17 have earned national recognition in the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Lina is the recipient of an American Voices Medal in the category of Personal Essay/Memoir for her piece titled "Those Words You Never Said to Me." Kacey earned a Gold Medal in Personal Essay/Memoir for "Lady Sings the Blues," and Catherine won a Silver Medal for her Critical Essay "The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Feminist Side." Lina was mentored by Upper School English teacher Beth Armstrong, and Kacey and Catherine worked on their essays with the support of HB's Osborne Writing Center Director Scott Parsons. 

Nearly 320,000 works of art and writing by students in grades 7-12 were submitted to Scholastic for consideration this year. Receiving a national medal places these three students within the top one percent of all submissions. 

Students receiving Gold Medals and American Visions and Voices Medals are invited -- along with their teachers -- to a national celebration June 1-3 in New York City, with the National Ceremony taking place at Carnegie Hall on June 2. 

Since 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized teenagers from around the country. Lina, Kacey, and Catherine join a legacy of celebrated authors and artists including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, Lena Dunham, and the recipient of this year's Alumni Achievement Award, noted filmmaker Ken Burns.

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Five members of the Hathaway Brown Class of 2017 are among the candidates under consideration for the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholars program. Regan Brady, Arielle DeVito, Lina Ghosh, Lauren Gillinov, and Rachel Wang have been selected as nominees for their outstanding academic achievement. Participation in this program is by invitation only. Students do not apply individually to the program, nor do their schools nominate them. These HB students were identified for the program based on their high ACT and SAT scores. 

All five now have the opportunity to be among a small number of American high school seniors who are named Presidential Scholars. Of the pool of roughly 4,000 candidates, approximately 800 students will be named semifinalists, at which point the U.S. Presidential Scholars Commission will further review the students' qualifications and up to 161 will be named U.S. Presidential Scholars. All Scholars are honored for their accomplishments through the National Recognition Program, held in June in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Presidential Scholars are guests of the U.S. Department of Education, and they enjoy an all-expenses-paid trip to the nation's capital to meet with government officials and educators. To commemorate the achievement, the Scholars will be greeted by the President of the United States, and they will receive special Presidential Scholars Medallions at a ceremony sponsored by the White House. 

The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 by Executive Order of the President to recognize and honor some of our nation's most distinguished students graduating from high school. The Scholars represent "excellence in education and the promise of greatness in young people." 

Hathaway Brown is proud to be the alma mater of eight U.S. Presidential Scholars: Kavya Ravichandran '16, Isabella Nilsson '16, Alyssa Bryan '13, Laney Kuenzel '08, Amy Hollinger ’05, Edith Hines Williams '00, Caroline Campbell '98, and Genevieve Mathieson Kilmer ’96.

Five Hathaway Brown Upper School students competed in the Veale Venture Challenge held on Thursday, February 9 in the school's Learning Commons at HB.

The purpose of the Veale Youth Entrepreneurship Forum is to enable high school students to recognize their full potential by experiencing all facets of entrepreneurship. The Form delivers on that purpose through high-value learning experiences and connections to the real world of entrepreneurship.

Students in the Center for Business & Finance have been working throughout the 2016-2017 school year on developing a business plan using the Lean Canvas Model. The initial pool of competitors included 50 students, and five made it to the semi-final round:

Gina Egan '18: H2Know
Lauren Egts '17: FoodForThought
Erica Kahn '18: No-Mess Necklace
Kalie Sommerfeld '18: Kalie's Cakes
Cynthia Wang '18: Filmzo

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L-R: Lauren Egts, Cynthia Wang, Erica Kahn, Kalie Sommerfield, Gina Egan

Each student presented their business concept and plan in front of a panel of judges. At the end of the presentations, judges deliberated and a winning concept was selected. Kahn's No-Mess Necklace will advance to the final competition at Case Western Reserve University on March 14.

Funded by The Veale Foundation, the Forum is a growing network of high schools in Northeast Ohio that was founded in 2012 with assistance from the Young Entrepreneur Institute at University School.

The forum currently reaches some 3,000 students annually at 22 different private and public high schools that are invited for participation and to use the Forum's resources to equip students with an entrepreneurial mindset and essential skills. 

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Clik here to view.At a special surprise assembly on Thursday, February 23, Hathaway Brown junior Brice Bai of Hudson learned that she is the 2017 Doodle 4 Google winner for the state of Ohio. Google representatives delivered the news in person during a presentation just before lunch with the entire Upper School student body in attendance.

As Ohio's winner, Brice received a personal visit from two Google representatives who flew in from San Francisco for the occasion, and she was presented with a large poster and a t-shirt emblazoned with her winning design, along with a tablet device. Winners in the contest have been selected from 53 U.S. states and territories, and the field now will be narrowed to five finalists who will earn an all-expenses-paid trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., along with a $5,000 college scholarship. The national winner will be announced on March 31. In addition to having his or her design featured on the Google home page that day, he or she will receive a $30,000 college scholarship, $50,000 for technology initiatives at his or her school, and other prizes. 

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Clik here to view.Finalists will be selected based on a number of criteria, including public voting, which will open in the evening on February 28 and run through March 6. Visit Doodle4Google.com every day to cast your ballot for Brice!

All 2017 Doodle 4 Google contestants were asked to create an original design that answers the question, "What I See for the Future." Brice made a digital image that focuses on the theme of female empowerment, featuring six women depicted as a scientist, a firefighter, a computer programmer, an athlete, a member of the military, and a singer. "What I see for the future is that everyone will be able to be what they want to be, and career choices will not be limited by gender," she said. 

We couldn't agree more. 

Please join us in congratulating Brice Bai and don't forget to vote for her amazing Doodle.

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Clik here to view.Hathaway Brown School was pleased to once again host the annual Science Research & Engineering Program Poster Session and Reception. This year’s event took place on Tuesday, March 7 in the school's atrium with 133 students and 25 students participated in Advanced Judging or a specialized Computer Science judging. The following students will be representing HB at International Science Fairs in the coming months (or have been awarded a substantial computer science prize):

Intel ISEF Finalists:

Catherine Areklett, '17: Surface versus Bulk Chiral Orientation Effects in Liquid Crystals with Dr. Charles Rosenblatt at Case Western Reserve University

Ananya Kalahasti, '17: Presence of Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes with Asymptomatic Malaria with Dr. Brian Grimberg at Case Western Reserve University

Isha Lele, '18: Investigating the Design of Nanoparticles to Target Difficult-to-Reach Tumor Sites with Dr. Efstathios Karathanasis at Case Western Reserve University

Maya Razmi, '18: Heteromultivalent Approaches to Clot-targeted Nanomedicine: Combination Targeting of Platelets and Fibrin with Dr. Anirban Sen Gupta at Case Western Reserve University

ISWEEEP Finalists:

Lina Ghosh, '17: Compartment-Specific Differences in Dendritic Spine Morphology in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome with David Katz at Case Western Reserve University

Intel Computer Science Award Winners ($200 prize):

Lauren Egts, '17: Reinventing Apollo Technology with Dr. Herb Schilling and Calvin Robinson at NASA Glenn Research Center

The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the largest pre-college scientific research event in the world. Each May (this year from May 14-19 in Los Angeles), more than 1500 student finalists from local and regional fairs from roughly 70 countries and territories arrive to compete at ISEF for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the grand prizes, including one $75,000 and two $50,000 college scholarships. All prizes together amount to over $4,000,000. The International Science and Engineering Fair was founded in 1950 by Science Service (now the Society for Science & the Public) and has been sponsored by the Intel Corporation since 1997. As of 2012, seven ISEF alumni went on to win Nobel Prizes.

I-SWEEEP, The International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering, and Environment) Project, is a groundbreaking science fair competition open to high school students organized by Harmony Public Schools, a K-12 Public Charter School System. With the support of leaders in industry and higher education institutions, I-SWEEEP works with local, national, and international science fair organizations to bring top-ranking participants and qualifying projects to Houston each year, this year from May 3-8. Student finalists from local and regional fairs are selected to attend this top international science fair.

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Clik here to view.Hathaway Brown is pleased to announce that six students have earned national recognition in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2017, and two students' work has been honored with Governor's Awards in Ohio.

HB's Scholastic national medalists are Catherine Areklett '17 (Silver Medal for Personal Memoir), Gina Egan '18 (Silver Medal for Comic Art), Molly Gleydura '18 (Silver Medal for Digital Art), Layla Najeeullah '20 (Silver Medal for Photography), Maria Perilla '17 (Silver Medal for Writing Portfolio), and Maya Razmi '18 (American Voices Medal for Personal Essay/Memoir).

Additionally, Gina Egan and Emma Borrow '18 have had their art work selected for display in the 2017 Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition. From the 11,500 regional entries from the state's 15 regions, approximately 2,500 are selected to enter the state judging. State jurors then select 300 works for the actual exhibition, which will be shown at the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower in April and May.

Scholastic national medalists have been identified by panels of creative professionals as the most talented young artists and writers in the nation. This year, 330,000 works of art and writing were submitted by students in grades 7-12. Less than one percent of work was recognized at the national level. This is the first time that six HB students have earned national medals in one year. As a recipient of the American Voices Medal, Maya is invited to a special celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June. Since 1923, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the outstanding work of teenagers from across the country. By winning a Scholastic Art & Writing Award, these HB students join a legacy of celebrated authors and artists including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, John Currin, and Lena Dunham. 

Congratulations to these gifted writers and artists and many thanks to the HB faculty who continue to educate, inspire, encourage, and mentor them. For more information about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, please visit the program's official website. To learn more about the Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition, please click here. 

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