ICS wins LWSD Math Olympiad competition
A team of junior high students (coached by Franz Rau) from the International Community School swept the Lake Washington School District's Math Olympiad competition on April 5 for the third year in a row and took home the wandering trophy.
There were three individual and three team events in which they had to match their skills against those of all the other LWSD junior high schools. Six students from each school took part in each event. However, each student could only be part of four events, making it a true team effort for all the schools.
The ICS team won five out of the six events, which covered all aspects of geometry, algebra and arithmetic and gathered the most points, winning the overall competition with 1,483 points. Kamiakin Junior High came in second with 1,307 points, and Inglewood Junior High was third with 1,117 points.
The ICS team included the following hardworking students:
7th-graders Bryan Djunaedi, Roxana Rautu, and Atanas Kirilov.
8th-graders Anupam Choudhary, Alex Esibov, and Edward Jiang.
9th-graders Mathew Zhou, Calvin French-Owen, Sukhdeep Singh, and Alena Rau.
Special thanks goes to Carmen Rautu, the volunteer scorer for the event.
ICS musicians charm
February and March were very busy months for the student musicians at ICS - between festivals, concerts, class projects and tests!
All District Junior High Honor Music Groups (Orchestra, Choir, and Band)
The February 8 performance featured the following ICS students chosen to participate by their music director, Mr. Michael Chapin: Hannah Hirano, Zach Schrempp, and Emilie Thaler on first violin; Midori Ogami on second violin; Maialen Etchevers, Kavya Vaghul and Fiona Xue on viola; Stephanie Kim on cello; Emily Chen on flute; Bill Zorn on clarinet; Spencer Fox on trumpet; and Albert Truong on French horn.
Northlake Division of the State Senior High Solo & Ensemble Festival
On February 12 the following students performed and received the top two rankings of either superior or excellent: Rosanne Garcia, violin solo; Calvin French-Owen, French horn solo; Calvin French-Owen and Sukhdeep Singh, French horn and violin duet; Korry Ogami, cello solo; Korry Ogami, Rosanne Garcia and Kaitlin Chapman, string trio; and Colin Wood, piano solo.
Northlake Region High School Orchestra Festival
On March 17, the whole music ensemble missed school to participate in this festival at the Redmond High School Performing Arts Center. Seven regional high school orchestras performed and were judged by well-known local music directors: Mark Adamo, Doug Longman, Marcus Tsutakawa, and Marianna Vail.
LWSD Junior High Solo & Ensemble Festival
On March 26, the following students performed and received the top two rankings of either superior or excellent: Michelle Deng, piano solo; Maialen Etchevers, Hannah Peter, Emily Thaler and Midori Ogami, string quartet; Zach Schrempp, violin solo; Zach Schrempp and Hannah Hirano, violin duet; Fiona Xue and Kavya Vaghul, viola duet; Dylan Fernandez, snare drum solo; Bill Zorn, clarinet solo; Calvin French-Owen, French horn aolo; Calvin French-Owen and Sukhdeep Singh, French horn and violin duet; Martha Zepeda, flute solo; Albert Truong, French horn solo; and Lily Fisher, piano solo.
Crossroads Shopping Center
They played a concert for the dining public at Crossroads on March 30!
They will also be playing for the public at Redmond Town Center on May 15 at 10:30 a.m. to support the Assistance League of the Eastside's funwalk event. Their spring concert will be at ICS along with our new choir on June 8 at 7 p.m.
Regional History Day
This year's North Puget Sound Regional History Day competition was held on March 16 at the Shoreline Community Center. Several students from ICS submitted entries; 25 won the right to continue on to the Washington State History Day competition to be held at Central Washington University in May. There will be about 400 competitors coming from all over the state at this year's state competition. The National History Day competition will be held in June at the University of Maryland. Only the first two place finishers at the state level will go on to the national competition.
As a result of this year's effort to produce such a bumper crop of student winners, Andrew Ivy, international studies teacher at ICS, was recognized by his peers and named as the National History Day in Washington State Teacher of Merit 2005.
The following 18 eighth graders will represent ICS and the North Puget Sound region in the junior division:
Devon Simpson, 1st, junior individual exhibit.
Emily Buettemeier, 2nd, junior individual documentary.
Kyle Coburn, 3rd, junior individual documentary.
Shaun Hockeiser and Victor Kollar, 1st, junior group documentary.
Chris Dube and Ben Huth, 2nd, junior group documentary and best use of primary sources.
Emily Chen and Anahita Nakhjiri, 3rd, junior group documentary.
Alex Esibov, Kevin Maxon, and Christian Lee, 4th, junior group documentary.
Aseel Abu-Dayya, 1st, junior individual performance.
Lauren Isherwood, 4th, junior individual performance.
Leocie Nelson, Mary Lily Fisher, Lorraine Johnston and Christine Liebbrand, 1st, junior group performance.
In the senior division (grades 9-12), the following seven students will continue to the state competition:
Stacy Shabalin, 1st, senior individual performance.
Henry Busch, 4th, senior individual exhibit.
Kahran Singh and Anders Eliasen, 1st, senior group documentary and best use of primary sources.
Calvin French-Owen, Matthew Zhou, and Sukhdeep Singh, 4th, senior group documentary.
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