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Have you done something
noteworthy our Wootton Community should know about? 11/14/2008 -- Kevin Downing has been selected, by audition, to be the lead trombonist for the Maryland All State Jazz Ensemble. Congratulations, Kevin. 11/13/2008 -- Congratulations are in order for the following students who qualified to take the
University of Maryland Math Competition -Part II on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008.
Congratulations to our Math Scholars! 10/27/2008 -- The Model UN would like to congratulate Wootton High School for its participation in the 21st George Mason High School Model UN Conference.They would especially like to acknowledge our award recipients Matthew Popkin and Tim Hwang for their receipt of the "Outstanding Delegate" award. We are very proud of this honor by two of our best delegates. The Model UN at George Mason certainly hopes that Wootton will continue to send delegates in the following years to continue this trend. 9/30/2008 --Congratulations to a specific group of students from Wootton that have been acknowledged by the state of Maryland and the National Achievement Scholarship Program for outstanding achievement. Seventy Three students were commended for the 2009 National Merit Program by the national Merit Scholarship Coporation based on scores received from the PSAT. I want you to know that your achievement has not gone unnoticed here at Wootton and at the colleges that will receive your college applications. Four students were awarded National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants. Congratulations go to Erica George, Byron Graberry, Elijah Martin, and Joey White. Semi Finalist and Finalist for the National Achievement Scholarship Program are the highest scoring participants from each state. The Semi Finalist names are forwarded to Colleges around the country. Finalist are in the running for $2500 scholarships. Wootton had 13 semifinalist, 1 Achievement Finalist, and 11 Merit Finalist. The thirteen Semi Finalist are:
The one Achievement Finalist is Brian Hollins And the 11 Merit Finalists are:
Congratulations to all participants and awardees 7/25/2008 - TEAM USA HAS DONE IT AGAIN
- - 4 GOLD MEDALS McLean, Va., July 21, 2008– The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) announced today the four member Team USA took home four gold medals at the International Biology Olympiad held in Mumbai, India. Fifty-five nations competed in this prestigious competition. For the second year in a row, the U.S. team garnered world recognition. The U.S. gold medal winners at IBO 2008
are: Congratulations, Jonathan! For full story click here. 5/19/2008 -- Congratulations are in order
for Qinxuan Pan. 4/25/2008 -- Jonathan Liang, a student at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, has been named as a national finalist in the USA Biology Olympiad. Liang, of North Potomac, will travel to George Mason University in Virginia in June for a two-week training session. More than 10,000 students applied for the competition; Liang was one of only 20 students nationwide selected as a finalist. 4/22/2008 -- Congratulations are in order for Qinxuan Pan and Suyan She on their qualification for the Unites States of America Mathematical Olympiad ( USAMO). 4/1/2008 -- Please congratulate Sean Stewart on achieving an Olympic Time Trial Cut in the 200 meter butterfly. He qualified for this event while competing in a National Swim meet in Orlando, Florida, during the week before Spring break. He will be going to the Olympic Time Trials in early July in Omaha, Nebraska. 3/13/2008 -- Please congratulate the following students who placed in the top 10 percent of Biology students in the country:
3/11/2008 -- Congratulations are in order for the following students who qualified for American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME):
3/10/2008 -- Congratulations to the Wootton Debate Team! Last Wednesday, March 5, 2008, six members of the team- Bianca Datta, Sonya Davey, Abhinav Ettyreddy, Devin Goodman, Seth Nelson, and Christine Sun competed in the first day of finals. Abhinav, Devin, Seth, and Christine advanced to the second day of finals and secured 4 of the top 16 spots in the Montgomery County Debate League. As a team, Wootton won 3rd place at the County Championships. 1/23/2008 - Let's give a big round of applause to the following students for their achievements in the University of Maryland Math Competition:
9/7/2007 -- Wootton senior Rachel Wang was recently named Miss Maryland Teen Talent. More . . . 8/16/2007 -- Rising Wootton High freshman Olivia Ekponé, who set a national record in the 100-meter dash at the AAU Junior Olympics last summer, is set to be the next big thing in track. More ... 8/3/2007 -- Darwin Mach has passed the CCNA exam and will be featured in an article in the bulletin and will have his picture on the front of the MCPS webpage. More to follow. 8/3/2007 -- Wootton Junior Elizabeth Askins has been cast as the female lead "Emma" in the musical Jekyll & Hyde at the Olney Theater Historic Stage in Olney MD on Thursday, August 16th and Saturday August 18th at 8:00 pm. 7/26/2007-- Wootton Sophomore Amy Levine competes in teen "Jeopardy" tournament. More . . . 5/18/2007--The National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union (NIHFCU) recognized the work of Wootton HS Seniors and NIHFCU Interns Emily Nichols and Matthew Lin with a $200.00 contribution to the school. Wootton Principal Dr. Doran noted the enhanced academic value that intern’s gain through such business experiences. Doran and Wootton Intership Coordinator Judy Krueger lauded NIHFCU’s on-going and strong support of Wootton internships and the Credit Union’s valued presence in the community. More . . . 5/14/2007--Congratulations to Niloofar Massahi who received the ESOL Student of the Year Award at the ceremony held at Kennedy High School on May 12. It was a very successful and impressive ceremony. Enjoy these photos: 5/14/2007--An exciting note concerning Wotton sophomore Suzanna Bobadilla. Suzanna is a member of the prestigious Children’s Chorus of Washington. This choral group had a special concert with the a cappella group “Sweet Honey In the Rock” at Strathmore Hall this past Sunday. The concert was an amazing performance. The Washington Post published a review of this concert in today’s edition: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301113.html This group has had the privilege of singing at places such as The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and The Millennium Stage in Cardiff, Wales. 5/8/2007-- Congratulations are due to the outstanding students and teachers of Wootton High School for their achievements at ScienceMONTGOMERY, the 2007 Montgomery County Science Fair. 397 awards were presented to 189 students from 37 schools. Three students from Wootton won prizes at the Fair, including cash awards. They are: Abhinav Ettyreddy, Christine Sun, and Steven Zhang. All three students were sponsored by Mr. Sanford Herzon. 5/3/2007--Twenty-four Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have won $2,500 National Merit Scholarships after meeting rigorous academic standards and other criteria. The local scholars account for almost 45 percent of the 54 winners from Maryland. Nationally, 2,500 winners were chosen from among finalists in the 2006-2007 program, sponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). NMSC finances most of the NMSC $1,500 scholarships with its own funds. Companies and businesses that sponsor awards through NMSC also help underwrite the scholarships with grants. The announcement brings the number of Merit scholars from MCPS to 33, including nine winners of corporate-sponsored awards announced earlier. College-sponsored Merit awards will be announced on May 23 and in mid-July. Wootton is pround to have three of these scholars: Andrew L. Chang, medicine; Thomas J. Bolek, medicine; Mindy B. Lin, law. The winners are finalists in each state judged to have
the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential
for success in rigorous college studies. 4/30/2007--The annual Chemathon competition was held last weekend at the University of Maryland and again Wootton can be proud! The year one team placed 8th and the year two team placed 1st. Both groups had 24 teams competing from DC, Maryland and Virginia. The year one team had it extra hard because they were wait-listed for the competition and were only notified one week before the competition that another team dropped out. They did an excellent job to pull all 10 events together within the final week! Year one team participants were: Prashanth Venkataram,Lesley Zhang, Shamir Kalaria, Adele Huang, Angela Ye nad Chelsea Yin with Ranny Zhao as an alternate. Year two team participants were:Jonathan Liang, Alexander Yin, Seonwoo Lee, Jiyeon Son, Ameen Soleimani and Sayeh Gorifard. 4/17/2007--Yesterday at the AACC meeting in Tampa, Vanessa Coleman, Wootton graduate, student member of the Board of Trustees, Biomedical Scholar, and all round great student was named to the USA Today Community College All-American First Team. More . . . 4/16/2007--The Center for Excellence in Education congratulates Andrew Shie and Jonathan Liang who are National finalists in the USA Biology Olympiad. Only 21 students from across the country qualify as finalists and Wootton has 2 of them! They worked and studied hard to score well on an extremely difficult exam last month. They will now join the other 19 students from across the country and study for 2 weeks in June to possibly compete in the International Olympiad in Saskatchewan, Canada this summer. Best of luck to them! 4/11/2007--Congratulations are in order for : Qinxuan
Pan and Suyan She for qualifying to participate in the United States
of America Mathematical Olympiad -USAMO. 3/30/2007--Christine
Chew who is in 9th grade at Wooton High went to the Music Teachers National
Association National Piano Competition at Toronto, Canada last week. 3/20/2007--Congratulations to 4 of Wootton's newspaper
students whose articles were posted on the National Edition of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) High School Journalism website.
Being featured on the site is a pretty big honor. The students (and
their headlines) are Jared Nelson ("Community Mourns the Loss of
Rachels"), Lauren Pace ("Overachievers: Relax!"), Mark
Stubenberg ("Trash from Littering Takes Over School"), and
Troy Crosby ("Bay Club on Mission to Raise Awareness"). The
National Edition with these articles can be found at : 3/7/2007--Let's join in extending our congratulations to the 10 students who qualified to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination ( AIME) , on March 13 , 2007. These students are:
Good luck to all students during the next
round.
3/1/2007--Wootton Senior Cedric Dana places first in the Burrito Mile. More . . . 2/27/22007--Freshman Amy Levine has
been selected to compete in the 2007 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament. 1/26/2007--Congratulations are in order for the following students who received great results in the University of Maryland Math Competition. Third Prize went to Qinxuan Pan ( 10th grade) Honorable Mentions went to : David Li ( 12th grade) and Suyan She ( 10th grade). 11/8/2006--Advanced Placement Scholars for 2005-06
Wootton's AP Scholars: Abbas Bader, Tessa Carducci, David Chen, Dan Cholvibul, Samuel Corbett, Alice Feng, Lina Feng, John Hooff, Grant Houghton, Jonathan Huang, Raymond Hwang, Berham Lin, Jonathan Long, Alexander Marston, Daniel Munley, Pingting Nie, Haochen Oin, Cynthia Peng, Jonathan Pike, Kevin Ray, Adam Susser, Samantha Tempchin, Allon Vishkin, Hannah Wallace, David Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang 10/27/2006--Rockville teen donates her Sweet 16 party money to Duke Ellington School of the Arts. More . . . 7/12/2006 -- Wootton Martial Artist goes National. New student Emilia Morrow named to the Junior National Taekwondo team. More . . . 6/15/2006--MCPS Team Wins Panasonic Championship 5/23/2006--A Mental, Not A Physical, Face-Off:
Wootton Student Again Selected to US Physics Team 5/12/2006--Twenty-two MCPS students have won $2,500
National Merit Scholarships after 5/4/2006--Wootton's Chemathon teams have once again made us PROUD! The annual Chemathon competition was held last Saturday at the University of Maryland with 25 schools competing from Maryland, Virginia and DC. The competition consists of 5 lab events and 5 written events. Our Year 1 Chemathon team and Year 2 Chemathon teams both placed first! Year 2 team members were: Daniel Hsiao, Allen Tsaur, Joe Chen, Monica Chan, Lily Yu and Andrew Chang. Year 1 team members were: Christine Wang, Christine Sun, Seonwoo Lee, Ameen Solemani, Abhinov Ettyreddy, and Alex Yin. 5/3/2006--Way to go Club EAST for making it to the finals in the Space Settlement and Design competition. The group will be heading to NASA headquarters in Houston this July to compete with 7 other schools (including 2 teams from India and one from Australia). This is an amazing achievement and a wonderful experience for the students! 5/3/2006--CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. THOMPSON AND THE PHYSICS BOWL TEAM…. Wootton's Physics Bowl efforts have produced the number one team in Division II [students who are in or who have taken AP], region V. This group of young men and women posted the fourth best score in the country AND we beat Blair's team, which is in a special category for magnet schools. Each school's score is the sum of the top four point
scorer's, and so it should come as little surprise that we had the NUMBER
ONE AND NUMBER TWO INDIVIDUAL SCORES IN DIVISION II, REGION V. These
scores came from David Chen and Jonathan Long, two of our Olympiad semifinalists
(David is now a finalist). We do not yet have official scores from the
other individuals, but I suspect that the other two contributors are
Andrew Chang and Nadezhda Serova, both of whom will be back to Wootton
next year. 5/2/2006--The following students are May's Patriots of the Month
4/26/2006--Eric Trippe is one of the 36 gymnasts that
qualified at the 2006 Men's Region 7 Gymnastics Championships in Rochester,
NY. He is off to Battle Creek, Michigan on May 2nd to compete at the
Junior Olympic National Championship. Good luck Eric! 4/24/2006--Please congratulate junior Andrew Shie for
becoming a finalist in the National Biology Olympiad. Out of the five
thousand advanced Biology students who took the series of tests, Andrew
was selected as one of the top twenty students in the country. The series
of tests he scored well on were impossible - this was quite an accomplishment! 4/18/2006--Sixty-nine Wootton Students have been invited to participate in the 2007 National Merit Program's College Plans Reporting Service. See List . . . 4/18/2006--Twenty-eight students have been named to 2006 Governor's Merit Scholastic Awards. See list . . . 4/6/2006--David Pardo has qualified to take the examination for the 35th annual United States American Mathematics Olympiad. Congratulations, David, and best of luck to you. 4/3/2006--Chaos Wins in A Capella Competition 3/26/2006--Wootton's own Hank Wangford and the Poo Dogs came in 1st place at this weekend's Montgomery County Rec Department Battle of the Band's! This annual event supports Mother's against Drunk Driving.
3/16/2006--Congratulations to David Chen, Jonathan Long, and Kira Maker for placing as semi-finalists on the U.S Physics Team. 3/5/2006--Please congratulate the following students who qualified for the semifinal round of the Biology Olympiad - TJ Bolek, David Chen, Andrew Shie, Sam Su, and Sandeep Venkataram. These students ranked in the top 10 percent of the country for those taking this extremely difficult test. They will be completing the two hour semifinal exam in two weeks to qualify for the national team. 3/3/2006--Congratulations to the Wootton Debate Team. They placed 4th overall in the county league, and Sophomore Jiyeon Son went on to compete in the county finals, placing in the top 16. Well done Team!! 2/27/2006--Congratulations are in order for the following students who received high marks in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC-12) and have qualified to take the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME):
2/27/2006--Congratulations to the following Debate Team members: Elisa Chen, John Hooff, Viyean Son, and Christine Sun, who were undefeated in last month's tournament and will be moving onto county finals! 2/26/2006--Please congratulate the Science Bowl Team for winning the Maryland/Delaware Regional Science bowl competition this weekend! Team members are seniors David Chen, Tessa Carducci, David Farkas, John Hooff and junior Andrew Shie. The team was phenomenal - undefeated in every match (and they beat Blair twice!) The team will now compete in two months in the National competition having won their all-expense paid trip to --- Washington, D.C. 2/8/2006--Congratulations to Junior Lauren Gluck on receiving the Bronze Medal at the 2006 Eastern Sectional Synchronized Skating Championships on January 25th in Duluth, Georgia, where she competed in both the technical (short: 2.5 minutes) and freeskate (long: 4 minutes) programs against teams throughout the east coast. Lauren skates on the Metroliners, a nationally ranked Junior Level team sponsored by the Bowie Figure Skating Club in Bowie, Maryland. By placing in the top four, Lauren and her team will advance to the 2006 United States Synchronized Team Skating Championships, in Grand Rapids, Michigan from February 22-25, 2006. In addition, to skating on her team, Lauren is working on her Senior (gold level: the highest level) moves and freestyle. Lauren has been skating for 14 years, and is a member of the Washington Figure Skating Club. She is an Ice Skating Coach for Special Olympics, Northern Virginia. 1/18/2006--Congratulations are in order for David Pardo, David Chen, and Allen Tsaur! These students have won Honorable Mentions in the University of Maryland Math Competition. Their dedication to mathematics and hard work has paid off for them with this distinguished award. 12/14/2005--It is pleasure to share the great news to our school & community about Wootton junior musician Matthew Lin who performed with the National philharmonic Orchestra for the MCPS concert at Strathmore on Dec.8th. As NPO /MCYO Concerto competition Grand Prize winner he was chosen to play for this big event and interviewed by two local newspapers. 12/13/2005--The following students were
nominated as December "Patriots of the Month": 11/28/2005--Congratulations to the following
students who have been selected for the MCPS Senior Honors Orchestra
and Band. They auditioned and were selected from the best musicians
in Montgomery County. If you see any of these students, please congratulate
their work. 11/18/2005--ROCKVILLE, MD--A total of 160 Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students--by far the largest number ever--were among the nation's top performers on the Advanced Placement (AP) exams last spring, according to The College Board. In addition, the county number of AP Scholars, Scholars with Honors, and Scholars with Distinction continued to set record highs. MCPS had 20 National Advanced Placement Scholars in 2003 and 121 in 2004, compared with this year's high of 160. The strong performances on these stringent exams highlight the school system's continuing efforts to increase academic rigor and encourage a greater number of students to take and succeed in AP courses. Students become National AP Scholars by scoring an average grade of 4 or higher (out of 5 possible points) on eight or more AP exams for full-year, college-level courses. National AP Scholars from Thomas S. Wootton: Daniel Baron, Polina Belyantseva, Keri Berman, Grace Chang, David Chen, Kaixi Chen, Angela Fan, Philip Hewes, John Hooff, Calvin Hsu, Alex Israel, Kirill Kustov, Eric Liang, Zhimei Luo, Laura Onken, Andrew Sun, Andrew Ward, Yunoing Wang, Youkuan Yan, Yao Yue, Zhiyuan Zhang. In addition Wootton has 178 Scholars, earning grades of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams; 81 Scholars with Honor, earning an average grade of at least 3 or higher on four or more AP exams; and 144 Scholars with Distinction, earning 3 or higher on five or more AP exams. Congratulations to our AP Scholars! 11/14/2005--The Recognition/Publicity Committee has expanded the "Patriot of the Month" award to include monthly winners from each department. Each department may nominate a different student/students each month and give their award a title. This month's winners are: "English Language Learner of the Month" 11/8/2005--Jonathan Satria participated in the Washington Post Music and Dance Scholarship and was one of the 12 recipients of the scholarship. Swathi Raman and Lora Latterner also participated and made it to finalists. More . . . 10/31/2005--Congratulations to the Wootton Computer Programming Team which competed at the first annual High School Programming Competition at Hood College. Wootton took second place by successfully completing every question. The team consisted of Jonathan Long, Sasha Slutsker, and Jack Zhang. Anyone interested in joining the team as
they prepare for the University of Maryland competition in the Spring,
please see Mr. Estep. 10/26/2005--Two of Wootton musician Matthew Lin (Junior Violinist) and Shyu Eugene ( Senior Cellist) have been selected to perform in The National Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra Day Concert by world class conductor. We are proud of them received this honor offer. This performance features some of the greater Washington area’s most promising high school students, performing side-by-side with The NSO musicians. This free concert is held in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on November 18th, 2005 ( Friday) 6:00pm. 10/11/2005--Alex Marston, has just won the Potomac Youth of the Year Award. He is currently a senior at Wootton. This annual award is sponsored by the Potomac Chamber of Commerce. Youth nominees must be high school students who live or attend school in Potomac, who have exhibited scholarship, leadership and a spirit of community service. The winner is selected by the Chamber of Commerce board and is honored in the Potomac Day parade in late October, and is also recognized at an invitational awards banquet in November. Alex was nominated for this award by his counselor, Lynn Goodman. 9/29/2005--Congratulation to Matthew Lin , a Junior violinist in Honor Symphonic orchestra who won the Grand Prize of the National Philharmonic Orchestra/ Maryland Classical Youth Orchestra Concerto competition on 9/24. He is scheduled as soloist with the National Philharmonic Orchestra for the Montgomery County schools and community concerts on Dec 6, 7,8 at Strathmore Concert Hall. And he also will appear as a soloist with MCYO Philharmonic orchestra in the spring of 2006 at Strathmore. Wootton community, go to the concerts to support him! 9/22/2005--Wootton's Veronica Salcido made a grand entrance to high school running last school year. Her freshman résumé included a top-five finish at the Maryland cross-country championships, an indoor state title in the 1,600 meters and All-Met honors for the outdoor track season -- which included a time of 4 minutes 57 seconds in the 1,600, second best in the area. More . . . 9/9/2005--Eight additional Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) graduates have won National Merit Scholarships, raising the number for the 2004-2005 school year to 48. One of these belongs to Wootton: Michael Lee, who will attend the University of Maryland studying meteorology. 6/8/2005 -- Wootton student, Soo Lee, a flutist in our Honors Symphonic Band, has qualified to perform as a side-by-side musician with the BSO at its June 23 concert at the Joseph P. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. This speaks well for you, for your school, and for your music program. I hope you will share the good news with the members of your band or orchestra, other students in your school, and with your principal and other administrators. As managers of the competition, we at Spectrum Associates look forward to seeing more of your students participate in futureYoung Artists Competitions.Tickets for the concert are available for $12, or 10$ for groups of four or more, through the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra box office at 410 783-8000. We hope that teachers and administrators, and students will be there to support Soo Lee.
Ini Li, 2nd Place in Botany, Invitation to Award Ceremony & Tour to the CIA, $100 Gift Certifcate and Membership to Chinese American Society
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