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2008/2009
2007/2008
National Merit Scholarship Finalists
The National Merit Scholarship Program has named the following members of the Lake Braddock Secondary School Class of 2008 as finalists in the 2008 Competition for Merit Scholarship Awards:
David Fox
Stephanie Helmick
Kedar Mulpuri
Neal Norman
Valerie Vargas
Brady Whytock
Lake Braddock Recognized for AP Performance
Lake Braddock is the Virginia state winner of the 2007-08 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement. As one of 50 high schools nationally to win the award, Lake Braddock will receive a $1,000 grant to support science and math education. Representatives from Siemens will present the award to school officials on Monday, March 24.
Lake Braddock Music Dept Earn Top Honors
Lake Braddock middle school bands, high school bands, and middle and high school orchestras have earned top honors in each of their respective festivals.
Three Lake Braddock Athletes Recognized by Washington Post
The Washington Post recognized three of the Lake Braddock athletes with All-Met honors.
. George Billy - Wrestling
. Molly Emery - Swim and Dive
. Ashley Danner - Swim and Dive, Girls Swimmer of the Year
Lake Braddock Winter Sports Has Great Season!
Lake Braddock recently completed a very successful winter sports season with championships in a number of sports.
. Gymnastics - District Champion
. Girls Swim and Dive - District Champion
. Wrestling - District Runner-up
. Boys Indoor Track - District and Regional Champions
. Girls Indoor Track - District and Regional Champions
. Boys Basketball - Final Four in the Region
Lake Braddock Chess Team Host State Championship
The Lake Braddock Chess Team hosted the state chess championship this past weekend (March 8-9). Lake Braddock took second place, edged out for the championship by Thomas Jefferson.
Lake Braddock Middle School Performs Well at the Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament, Feb. 23, at Madison High School :
Lake Braddock Middle School :
Gold Team: 2 nd place overall
Purple Team: 5 th place overall
Medal winners:
Devyani Agarwal - 1 gold
Greg Anderson - 1 bronze
Leif Bakke - 1 gold, 1 bronze
Zola Bridges - 1 silver, 2 bronze
Eve Chase - 1 gold, 1 bronze
Jake Clatterbuck - 1 gold, 2 bronzes
Allison Crow - 2 silver
Austin Dunn - 2 gold
Daniel Edwards - 1 silver
Elizabeth Johnson - 1 silver
Mariah Kahn - 1 bronze
Christina Lee - 1 bronze
Christine Lucky - 1 silver, 1 bronze
Aaron Lui - 1 gold
Paul Park - 1 bronze
Suganya Sridharma - 2 gold, 1 silver
Jackie Tran - 2 gold
Gaby Urias - 1 silver
Emily Yeh - 1 gold
Stephen Yuan - 1 gold, 1 bronze
2005/2006 AND EARLIER (pdf)
2006/2007
- Two Lake Braddock Students received the 2007 Achievement Awards in Writing by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Jake Baskin and Rachel Lim of Lake Braddock Secondary School were included
in the group of ten FCPS students to receive this award, Each participant submitted a sample of his or her best writing in any form or genre as well as an impromptu essay on a subject determined by NCTE. For 2007, 1,937 juniors submitted portfolios; of that group, 595 were selected for Achievement Awards in Writing, including 17 students from Virginia
- Lady Bruins are two time state soccer champions defending their AAA VHSL title in 2 -1 overtime!
- Bruin Crew Novice Mens 4 Takes Gold at State Championship
Lake Braddock's Novice Mens 4 boat won gold and the trophy at the Ted Phoenix Lower Boat Championship Regatta on 5 May. Crew rowers Robert Hyde, Patrick RoDee, Danny Otto, and Matt Buchanan, and coxswain Alex Maltenfort, consistently rowed the 1500 metre course in under 6 minutes. None of the other eleven competing schools in this class finished the course in under 6 minutes in any of the heats. This all freshmen boat is rowing for the first time this year and will be competing in the prestegious Stotesbury Regatta in Philadelphia on 18 May.
- The Middles School Science Olympiad team placed 2nd in the VA State Tournament, April 14, 2007. Results included these medals and 4th place finishes...
Jacob Baldwin: 1 Gold, 2 Silver
Tim Barry: 1 Bronze, 2 4th places
Varun Bhatnagar: 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Duncan Cannon: 2 Golds, 1 4th
Allison Crow; 1 Silver
Will Dalton: 3 Silvers
Alex Emmons: 1 Gold, 2 Silver
Elizabeth Johnson: 2 Silver, 1 4th
Robert Matuszko: 1 Silver
Trami Pham: 1 Silver, 1 4th
David Ray: 1 Silver, 1 4th
Rachel Song: 1 Silver
David Snyder: 1 4th
Sam Rubenking: 1 Gold, 1 Silver
Jackie Tran: 1 Silver
- Lake Braddock Secondary School 's All Night Grad Celebration sponsored by LBSS PTSA was named as one of 20 schools awarded the Honor Roll Awards Recognition by the Virginia State Police Association. This recognition is presented to groups who sponsor safe, alcohol and drug free all night celebrations after prom or after graduation.
- Six teams from Lake Braddock Secondary School: Creatures of the Night, Enigma, The Elves, The Higher Flyerz, RCB 2, Jam'n were recently selected to advance to the TOYchallengeT 2007 Nationals at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, Balboa Park on April 21-22. The teams, led by Mrs. Lynn Henson and Mrs. Connie Schlimgen, have been selected from hundreds of teams of students from across the country that are participating in TOYchallenge, a fun-fueled toy- and game-design competition that gives kids the chance to step out of their classrooms and develop their engineering and design skills by creating their dream toy.
- Congratulations to all of Lake Braddock 's Regional Science and Engineering Fair participants. Ninety-five percent (95%) of our entries earned an award at the fair.
The following projects earned a FIRST PLACE in their respective category:
In biochemistry: Sheela Saidha and Bharath Krishnamurthy - Project Title: Daphnia Metrics
In engineering: Matthew Bombaugh - Project Title: The Effect of Harmonic Frequency Vibration Dampers
In engineering: Caitlin Brown, Willaim Ross, Erin Tamargo - Project Title: Cooling a Computer with Liquid Submersion
In plant science: Vivien Bui-Huynh, Hannah Keem, Kirstina Lee - Project Title: Will They Survive?
Matthew Bombaugh's project was also a Grand Prize Nominee for the entire fair.
- Congratulations to LBMS History Students!
Congratulations to the following 7 th and 8 th grade students who placed in the regional National History Day competition held this past Saturday at George Mason University :
1 st place: Maddie Stowkowski and Lizzy Yim for their documentary
2 nd place: William Shearer for his paper and David Snyder for his exhibit
3 rd place: Sam Martin-Johnson and Rebecca Mast for their documentary
Honorable Mentions: Charlotte Ellison for her exhibit and Sarah Lemire and Becky Keitelman for their exhibit
The 1 st and 2 nd place winners will travel to Williamsburg to compete in the state competition in April!
- Congratulations to the following Reflection participants for receiving awards at the Fairfax County Council Level:
Serena Lei received the Outstanding Interpretation Award in Music Composition.
Boreum Kim received the Award of Excellence in Visual Arts.
- Congratulations to the High School Band Program!
Congratulations to the High School Band this past weekend for achieving their 26th consecutive State Honor Band Title. No other band in the state of VA has achieved this wonderful accomplishment!s
- Congratulations to the Lake Braddock Chess Team!
Congratulations to the Lake Braddock chess team for winning the Southern Division Championship in the prestigious Metro Area Chess League and finishing second in the league playoffs held this weekend at the US Chess Center in Washington DC . The chess team completed the best season in school history and was the top team in Northern Virginia , defeating perennial power Thomas Jefferson in league play. Congratulations to the following members of the 2006-07 Championship Team: Steve Linett, Remy Wong, Jason Dunn, Tal Motro, David Fox, and Ben Deng. For their outstanding play all season, Steve Linett and Jason Dunn were named to the league all-star team.
- Two LBSS Students Receive 2006 Cappie Awards
Senior Danielle Schender and Junior Matt Provance each won an 2006 Cappie Award. Danielle won her award as sound designer and though she is our third sound designer to be nominated for a cappie, she is the first to win. Matt got his Cameo Actor Award for his performance in the Act Three interrogation scenes from 1984. LBSS has had 50 nominations to date making us among only 5 schools in Cappie history to be part of the 50 club. And the 13 Awards total puts us third behind Chantilly (14) and Robinson (17).
- Two LBMS Students Qualify for National History Day Competition
Twenty-one Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) students have qualified to compete in National History Day competition by placing first or second in the state competition, which was held last month in Williamsburg. National History Day competition is scheduled to take place at the University of Maryland in June. Madeleine Stokowski and Elizabeth Yim of Lake Braddock Secondary School placed second in the Group Documentary category with their project "Strings Attached: How Mary Elizabeth Garrett's Philanthropy Revolutionized the Study of Medicine."
- LBSS High School Band (Director Roy Holder) Earns Virginia Honor Band Status
Lake Braddock High School, under the direction of Roy Holder is 1 of 10 Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) high school bands that have been designated as Virginia Honor Bands by the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association (VBODA). Fifty bands across the state were selected as Virginia Honor Bands; of that number, 20 percent are from FCPS.
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LBSS Botball Team Competes
On May 6, the Lake Braddock Botball team competed in the Greater DC Regional Tournament at the University of Maryland . The LBSS team, one of 46 teams from VA, MD, and DC, had spent the six weeks prior to the contest designing, constructing, and programming their robot to retrieve "Tribbles" and supplies from designated areas on a 4 x 8 game board. Each team had to build their entries using identical kits of Legos and electronics, thus putting the emphasis on creativity and design instead of resources. Our team (Tobin Demesko, Nick Carson, Neal Singh, and Will Ross) received special recognition for their use of pneumatics in design of the robot. The team earned a significant portion of the entry fees through pizza sales after school and received financial support from Fairfax Educational Foundation and the Lake Braddock Academic Boosters. Additional information about this national program can be found at www.botball.com .
- Four Lake Braddock eighth graders are national winners in the National Council of Teachers of English Promising Young Writers program. Of the eleven winners in Virginia , four are ours. They are:
Sam Chirtel
Hannah Clark
Kimberly Johnston
Noelle Vinas
- On April 29, Lake Braddock 7th graders, Madeleine Stowkowski and Elizabeth Yim, won 2nd place at the Virginia State History Day in Williamsburg for their group documentary entitled "Strings Attached: How Mary Elizabeth Garrett's Philanthropy Revolutionized the Study of Medicine." They will go on to compete at the national contest held at the University of Maryland in June.
- Lake Braddock DECA would like to wish a warm congratulations to C.C Howlett, Dana Jones, Katie Kingston, & Alex Plunkett. These four exceptional students along with 20,000 other high school students traveled to Dallas , Texas and competed in the International DECA Conference.
LBMS Olympiad team brought home the 2nd place trophy in the FC/Reagional/VA state Olympiad on Saturday, April 22.
Gold medals
Mystery Architecture: Kenneth Chen and Victor Yu
Rocks and Minerals: Arianna McQuillen and Biqi Zhang
Sounds of Music: Alex Emmons and Vivaek Shivakumar
Mission Possible: Phillip Dinh, Alex Kaplan and Paul Oh
Bridge Building : Arianna McQuillen and Biqi Zhang
Disease Detectives: Eric Anderson and Emma Ferris
Solar System: Alex Kaplan and Vivaek Shivakumar
Silver medal
Science of Fitness: Alex Emmons and Emma Ferris
Bronze medals
Awesome Aquifer: Eric Anderson and Vivaek Shivakumar
Balloon Race: Kenneth Chin and Andy Hsu
Compute This: Daria Nesterovich and Mohima Sanyal
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LBSS Student Wins National Achievement Scholarship
LBSS student Jenaye Johnson received a $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship from the 2006 National Achievement Scholarship program (NASP). She was one of eight FCPS students among more than 800 students mationwide to win a scholarship
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LBSS Students Win in Regional History Day Competition
Students from Fairfax County public schools captured top honors in 12 of 14 categories at the Northern Virginia regional competition of National History Day held recently at George Mason University . Students competed as individuals or groups in four categories: exhibits, documentaries, performance, and papers. The top two finishers in each category qualified to compete in the state competition in June at the University of Maryland .
Lake Braddock Winners:
Group Exhibit: second place, Colleen Garrott and Liana Epstein
Group Documentary: first place, Madeleine Stokowski and Elizabeth Yim
Individual Paper: third place, Nick Grippin
To compete in National History Day, students choose historical topics and conduct primary and secondary research using libraries, archives, museums, oral history interviews, and historical sites. The students analyze and interpret their sources and draw conclusions about the topic's significance in history, then present their work individually or in a group in the form of original papers, exhibits, performances, and documentaries. Their submissions are entered into local, state, and national competitions where they are evaluated by professional historians and educators.
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Lake Braddock Student is 1 of 12 FCPS Students to Win State-Level Reflections Awards
Ethan Kamerow received the Award of Merit at the state level of the Reflections competition.He is one of twelve students from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) named winners in the Virginia PTA Reflections contest. The theme for the 2005-06 competition was "I Wonder Why."
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CONGRATULATIONS to all participating MS Advanced Theatre Arts students who presented their production of "Violins Is Golden" at the Folger Shakespeare Secondary School Festival March 15th.
Our students received awards and recognition for:
"Outstanding Ensemble" Best Commitment to an Original Concept (Compiled scenes set to Coppola's "Godfather Suite"
"Outstanding Duet" for Best Interpretation of Text, Guin Zimmerman and Emily Paraino ("Merry Wives of Windsor")
"Outstanding Trio" for Maintaining Scene Flow & Excellence In Stage Combat, ("Taming of the Shrew") Sean Lear, Alex Marrs, and Noelle Vinas
"Excellence In Acting" for Carrying the Challenge of Concept and Clarity of Text, Allie Miserendino as Hamlet
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LBMS Students Win at National History Day District Competition!
Congratulations to all our Middle School students who competed in the National History Day District competition held on Saturday at George Mason University . We had 11 students competing and came away with a 3 rd place to Nick Grippin for his paper on James Stockdale, 2 nd place to Liana Epstein and Colleen Garrott for their exhibit on Title 9's Impact on Sports, and a 1 st place to Maddie Stowkowski and Lizzie Yim for their documentary on Mary Garrett's Revolutionary Impact on the Study of Medicine. Our 1 st and 2 nd place winners will go on to compete at the state competition next month in Williamsburg . Good Luck!
- Two Middle School Students Win Regional Recognition
Gloria Lee and Marie French have won REGIONAL RECOGNITION in the Toshiba Exploravision contest and will now complete at the next level! They are one of six teams chosen to move on to the next round from across the country for grades 7-9 and one of 24 total teams across the United States and Canada to receive this recognition this year. Their project is entitled " BRAINS - B rain R eading A larm: I nvincible N eural S ecurity" and is a system of alarms that could only be triggered by the presence of humans including the determination of the age, gender, and mental state of the trespasser---a cross between an MRI and an EEG. Good news for our middle school science program!!
- LBSS Theatre Wins Patriot District One-Act Play Championship
Tuesday, January 31st, Lake Braddock Theatre won its third Patriot District One-Act Play Championship and the first since 2000.
- 2006 Regional Scholastic Award Winners Announced!
The following students won a Scholastic Art award:
| Student Name |
Grade |
Award |
Category |
| Angela (Eun) Cho |
8 |
GK |
Mixed Media |
| Jacqueline Park |
10 |
SK |
Drawing |
| Huynh Nhan Cao |
11 |
SK |
Video & Film |
| Minseon Ju |
11 |
SK |
Video & Film |
| Coliin Mahony |
11 |
SK |
Computer Art |
| Dongchan Seo |
11 |
SK |
Video & Film |
| Sanghoon Shin |
11 |
SK |
Video & Film |
| Christina Suh |
11 |
SK |
Video & Film |
| Daniel Gorosito |
11 |
GK |
Drawing |
| Bryce Carter |
12 |
GK |
Animation |
| Alex Chin |
12 |
SK |
Video & Film |
| Caroline Kaschak |
12 |
GK |
Video & Film |
| Heather Klein |
12 |
GK |
Video & Film |
| Ted Voss |
12 |
GK |
Video & Film |
| Jeff Whalen |
12 |
CM |
Computer Art |
| Carl Bollig |
12 |
GK |
Photography |
The students winning awards for Video & Film used the video-editing lab at the Lake Braddock Library to create their entries.
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