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Haine Middle School Students are Academic Champions
Three sixth-graders out-think competition to be named national champions.
At Monday's Seneca Valley School Board meeting, officials honored Emily Scanlan, Emily Winterhalter and Daniel Popp. The sixth-graders at all were named national champions at the National Academic Games Tournament in Kissimmee, Fla, earlier this month.
The district also had six top 10 finishes in both individual and team performances.
In Academic Games, students try to out-think each other in the areas of math, language arts, and social studies. Throughout the year, Seneca Valley -- which has academic teams for students in sixth through 12th grade -- competes against schools from around the area in the hopes of qualifying as many students as possible for the national tournament.
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According to Linda Andreassi, the distict's director of communications, bringing home a top-three Academic Games trophy is the equivalent of earning All-America honors for an athletic team.
Below is a summary of the students with top 50 individual performances and top three team standings:
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Name Grade Place Event
Emily Scanlan 6th – HMS National Co-Champion LinguiSHTIKS
Emily Winterhalter 6th – HMS National Co-Champion LinguiSHTIKS
Daniel Popp 6th – HMS National Champion Equations
Lucy Geronime 6th – ECMS 3rd Place Individual Propaganda
Sara Panetta 6th – HMS 2nd Place Team World Events
Sam Casey 6th – HMS 2nd Place Team World Events
Kyle Cindrich 6th – HMS 2nd Place Team World Events
Lauren Vozel 6th – HMS 2nd Place Team World Events
Emily Scanlan 6th – HMS 2nd Place Team World Events
Sarah Panetta 6th – HMS 2nd Place Team World Events
Michael Palaski 8th 5th Place Team World Events
Mark Livingstone 8th 5th Place Team World Events
Laura Byko 11th 13th Place Individual World Events
Laura Byko 11th 28th Place Individual Presidents
Laura Byko 11th 29th Place Individual Propaganda
Kelly Cotton 12th 13th Place Individual World Events
Nick Cupelli 12th 41st Place Individual World Events
Matt Graf 12th 13th Place Individual World Events
Matt Graf 12th 15th Place Individual Presidents
Druv Kohli 10th 2nd Place Individual World Events
Druv Kohli 10th 3rd Place Team World Events
Druv Kohli 10th 3rd Place Team Presidents
Druv Kohli 10th 20th Place Individual Presidents
Druv Kohli 10th 25th Place Individual Equations
Nikko Paserba 10th 43rd Place Individual World Events
Amanda Rossetti 12th 33rd World Events World Events
Jonathan Selling 1oth 39th Place Individual LinguiSHTIKS
Andreassi said six teams also were one spot out of making the playoffs in the cube games, including LinguiSHTIKS, Equations, and On-Sets.
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