Year In Review 2012-2013

As the year draws to a close, it’s nice to look back and recap many of the things that our students and teachers have accomplished. Below is a list of many of the things that have happened over the course of the 2012-2013 school year that we wanted to highlight. We may have missed some, but there are so many amazing things going on that it’s hard to keep track of it all! Be sure to come and see what your students have done at the Exhibition Night this Friday, June 7^th, from 4-7, with the play at 4:30!

-Our 10^th graders did an amazing job on their OGTs this year, with the following passing rates:

• Reading- 100%
• Math- 95%
• Writing 100%
• Science- 98 %
• Social Studies 97%

- Our very first LEGO League teams took part in a competition at Central State University. The STEMChix received a local award from Central State that was $75 Dollars to pay for next years State Registration Fees. The Brickheads won the 2nd Place Champions award. The STEMBotics won the District Ambassador Award and the 1st Place Champions Award.

- Tess, Leif, David, and Tyler placed 3rd overall at this year’s Junior Council on World Affairs Quiz Bowl. They finished 3rd out of 55 teams total from schools all around the Dayton area.

- Kennan French, one of our 11th grade students, was awarded the 2nd place prize for his essay submission to a McGraw-Hill essay contest during Mrs. Durkee’s US Government course.

-The CyberPatriots team in the first year saw both teams finish in the first quartile nationally.

-On March 16th, the following Science Olympians received medals at the Piqua Regional:
Division C (High School)

• 4th Place Chemistry Lab (Josh & Cheikh)
• 5th Place Fermi Questions (Josh & Cheikh)
• 6th Place Materials Science (Anne & Matt)

Division B (Middle School)

• 6th Place Shock Value (Orlando & Ryan)

- The District Science Fair occurred in March. Our students participated and presented their research (13 projects in total), and the results were amazing. 10 projects of the 13 advanced to the state level, and the students won a total of 6 special awards as well, listed below:

• Eric Towe and Omena Mushale – Air force Award
• Ean Milligan – APA award and certificate
• Jacob Penick
• Vidur Prasad – Society of American Engineers award for best engineering project; Plaque and $150 and invite to Banquet; Levin Porter Architects award for innovative use of materials in traditional and non-traditional applications; $50 and front row baseball tickets; McAulay-Brown award for best engineering project; $100 Army Certificate

-10th grader Noah Dversdall placed third in Division II of the Max May Memorial Art contest for his linoleum block print about the Bosnian Genocide. Noah was presented with an award on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) at the Temple Beth Or Synagogue. All student posters were displayed at the Dayton Peace Museum, and many will be on display next fall at the Dayton Art Institute.

- Students Josh Jordan (12th Grade) and Kennan French (11th Grade) competed in the Kettering Rotary Club’s “4 Way Test” Speech Contest. Josh Jordan earned 1st place in the competition.
- The following students placed in the Ohio Mathematics League Algebra I contest:

• First place- Nathan Keefer (score 18)
• Second place (tie)- Vidur Prasad and Evan Bailey (score 17)
• Third place (tie)- Brianna Hayslett and Anders Sondergaard (score 16)

- The Economics students in Team DRSS-4 won second place in the high school division of the Ohio Stock Market Challenge for Spring 2013, out of 145 teams of students around the Dayton area. The students recognized were Ryan Truesdell, Sharde Scott-Manning, Killian Macnish, and Tim Brown. They increased the value of their portfolios by 14.21% in just 10 weeks, with the winning team increasing the value of its portfolio by 14.33%, so they were a very close second.

- For the past two years 12-year old scientists Josie Baudendistel has been studying forensic scavenging patterns for her science fair projects in conjunction with Dr. Eric Benbow, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Dayton. She has successfully funded her project through crowdfunding and will be able to conduct her research.

-Our science fair students performed admirably this past year at the State Science Fair as ‘State Science Fair Scholars’. The following students were recognized:

9th graders

• Niky Hicks
• Ean Millagan
• Caleb Tracy
• Jacob Penick
• Shari Gordnier
• Eric Towe and Omena Mushale

10th graders

• Tess Greene and Abby Bowman
• Bharath Ramini and Aaron Joy

In all, DRSS earned 4 superior scores, but all student participants are among the top 2% of science students in the State of Ohio.

Congratulations to all those mentioned and all of the ones who didn’t make it on here!