Awards and Recognitions
Marketing (5/8/08)
Five Marketing students who won at States went on to compete at this month's DECA International Career Development Conference in Atlanta. Three made the stage for top honors and 2 placed in the top 20 finalists. (More than 10,000 students from the US and abroad attend and/or compete at the DECA ICDC conference.) Please join us in congratulating: Taylor Thomas and Katie Rediger who were named finalists in the Internet Marketing Team Decision Making Event and Kevin Burke who placed in the top in an individual Restaurant Food Service Management event. Taylor Thomas and Katie Rediger were both offered a summer internship as a result of their performance at the International Career and Development Conference. FCPS News Release
Art (5/7/08)
Isabelle Yun won 1st place at the Congressional Art Competition sponsored by the arts council of Fairfax County. Her artwork along with the winner from the 8th district will be displayed in the US Capitol for one year!
Social Studies (5/7/08)
OHS students won top honors in the Virginia History Day competition held recently in Williamsburg ( Tim Hudenburg, teacher):
Matt Johnson, George Perry, Saeid Kian, Ethan Doyle, and Wesley Roberts of Oakton High School, first place in Group Exhibit, Senior Division, for “Iranian Hostage Crisis”
Mike Raust, Danny Metcalf, Hubert Shang, and Boyuan Wang of Oakton High School, first place in Web Site, Senior Division, for “Conflict and Compromise in World War I”
These two teams will now advance to the National History Day competition in June at the University of Maryland. FCPS News Release
Science (5/2/08)
The Science Olympiad team took 4th place win in the State Science Olympiad Tournament this weekend! Team members were: Eric Kim, Daniel Kim, Clovis Vaughn, Lina Yeh, Manee Sunanand, Thet Aung, Alexis Chaung, Danielle Chaung, Maha Elsamahi, Young Min Yook, Patricia Radich, Herra Jayachandran, Evelyn Gu, Jyotiska Biswas and Jo-Lin Hsieh
With non-competing support from Sarah Lee, Vikram Jagini, Ashwin Katikapalli and Ankur Goel.
We also took ten individual event medals:
1st Place--Electric Vehicle, Remote Sensing & Physics Lab
2nd Place--Experimental Design & Wright Stuff
3rd Place--Rocks & Minerals & Write-It-Do-It
4th Place--Ecology
5th Place--Robot Ramble & Forensics
Band (4/29/08)
The band outdid themselves in performances at Disneyworld on Friday evening and we were very proud of them. The bands received two best in class, two gold medal placements, one bronze medal placement and our outstanding soloists were Sarah Atkinson (clarinet), Ben Elliott (oboe) and Jenna George (alto saxophone). Based on the exceptional performance by our Symphonic Band, the judges selected the group to receive a special invitation to the Disney Honors program next year. The Disney Honors is considered the "Pinnacle of Music Festivals" and we are very honored to receive this special invitation.
Science (4/28/08)
Please congratulate the Science Olympiad team on their 4th place win in the State Science Olympiad Tournament this weekend! Team members were: Eric Kim,
Daniel Kim,
Clovis Vaughn,
Lina Yeh,
Manee Sunanand,
Thet Aung,
Alexis Chaung,
Danielle Chaung,
Maha Elsamahi,
Young Min Yook,
Patricia Radich,
Herra Jayachandran,
Evelyn Gu,
Jyotiska Biswas,
Jo-Lin Hsieh,
With non-competing support from Sarah Lee, Vikram Jagini, Ashwin Katikapalli and Ankur Goel.
We also took ten individual event medals:
1st Place--Electric Vehicle, Remote Sensing & Physics Lab
2nd Place--Experimental Design & Wright Stuff
3rd Place--Rocks & Minerals & Write-It-Do-It
4th Place--Ecology
5th Place--Robot Ramble & Forensics
Orchestra (4/24/08)
the Symphonic and Concert Orchestra members for their outstanding performance on Friday night at the 2008 Washington, DC Heritage Music Festival Competition. The Orchestra received a rating of GOLD and won the Outstanding Orchestra Performance Award! As a result of these ratings, Heritage Festival has invited the Symphonic Orchestra to attend their 2009 Boston Music Festival of Gold, where the students will perform on stage in Boston’s Symphony Hall.
Japanese (4/21/08)
Lucas Traunero won the 2nd place award in the 2008 Yon Koma Manga (Japanese Four-Frame Comics) Competition. It is sponsored by National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) His work is entitled as “The Arrival of Commodore Perry” and the award was given in the historical category. The comics by Lucas and other students will be displayed in the display case outside of the library.
Publication (4/21/08)
Oakton High School just won three outstanding, amazing (and any other adjectives you can think of) awards at the National Journalism Convention. OHS YEARBOOK won the Pacemaker, which is like a Pulitzer price for high school yearbooks. This is the highest award any yearbook can receive. We also took some best of show awards as well. Our YEARBOOK took 8th place in Best of Show and our NEWSPAPER took 6th place in Best of Show. It is absolutely amazing to receive these honors over all the schools in the NATION
Latin (4/14/08)
National Latin Exam WINNERS of 2008
Gold Medal – Summa Cum Laude
Latin IV: Anna Mintz, Travis Hellman, Danny Metcalf, Ethan Doyle
Latin III: Zach Stair, Catherine DeTeresa, Anthony La
Latin II: Andrea Williams: Perfect Score, Lisa Baumgartner, Yoseline Castillo, Paige Davis, Ray Daniels, Steven Harris, Brian Mead
Latin I: Ryan McNamee, Thet Aung
Silver Medal – Maxima Cum Laude
Latin IV: Michael Nye
Latin III: Heather Smoot, Julia Picciotto, Chris Lohmann, Kate Outterbridge
Latin II: Kelsey McGuire, Connor Wallwork, Susan Chiang, Daphne
Martschenko, Anthony Schiavo, Christina Yen, Haley Herrinton, Patricia Radich, Isun Malekghassemi (Level III Poetry)
Latin I: Paul Davis, Alexis Chaung, Saehee Kim, Asli Durak
Magna Cum Laude
Latin IV: Jacob Merlin
Latin III: Richa Tiwari
Latin II: Maura Brennan
Latin I: Andy Kim, Rebecca Singerman, HyeYun Kim
Cum Laude
Latin IV: Ru Da Yi
Latin III: Alice Li, Yoon Joo Lee, Kevin Sun
Latin II: Patrick Fulghum, Kristen Fish, Caroline Lannon
Latin I: Jonathon Hsu
FBLA (4/14/08)
Oakton High School participated in the FBLA State Leadership Conference this weekend in Reston, VA. Students attended leadership sessions in addition to competing in their events. I am pleased to announce that Oakton competed in 6 events and placed in the top 5 in all six events! Oakton’s FBLA also received Honor Chapter recognition.
- Andrew Wong, 3rd Place Accounting II;
- Sarah Parsons and Daniel Novick, 2nd Place Business Financial Plan
- Peter Lee, 5th Place Computer Problem Solving
- Matt Ellis, 5th Place Economics
- Nickolas Sojka, 3rd Place Introduction to Business
- Kelcey Stone, 5th Place Personal Finance
Science (4/14/08)
This past weekend Fairfax County Public Schools held its 2008 Regional Science and Engineering Fair at Robinson Secondary School. Oakton High School had 22 projects that were entered to compete with students from all the other high schools in the county.
Please congratulate the following students for an excellent job.
Alex Peterkin – Grand Prize Winner in Behavioral and Social Sciences. He gets to go to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta, GA in May, 2008.
First Place: Betsy O’Brien –Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical Mira Mehta and Kelly Fox - Behavioral and Social Sciences. Both these projects get to compete in the State Science Fair which will be held April 11 – 12, 2008 at George Mason University.
Second Place: Mishail Tupas – Chemistry Chris Peterkin – Energy and transportation Emma Weil – Environmental Management Michael Shallcross – Environmental Management Stephen Jordan – Physics and Astronomy
Third Place: Maura Brennan – Animal Sciences Hanna Marple – Behavioral and Social Science Cristina Harrell and Jeeyoon Kim - Behavioral and Social Sciences Danny Krulick – Environmental Management Kirin Gupta – Environmental Management Anne Colturi - Environmental Management Oshin Shukla - Medicine and Health Ellie Carlson, Lauren Doss, and Erin Turley - Medicine and Health Yekaterina Zhukova – Plant Sciences
Honorable Mention: Andrew Lankenau – Biochemistry Patrick Marlow – Computer Science Lloyd Ramey – Computer Science Tyler Buczek – Physics and Astronomy
In addition to the category prizes, many students won additional prizes from organizations.
Family and Consumer Science (4/14/08)
Please congratulate my FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) student officers who won at the Virginia State Conference this past weekend. The girls who won gold are Alison Stafford and Andrea Bermudez; Audrey Dawson and Sydney Humbert won silver.
Chorus (4/4/07)
Congratulations to senior chorus member, Matthew DeLorenzo! He was selected through audition to participate in the 2008 VA All-State Chorus event to be held in Harrisonburg on April 24-26, 2008. Senior, Andrea Williams, and Sarah Choi, a junior, also placed as alternates.
Marketing (3/11/08)
Oakton's Marketing students had a great State Leadership Conference. We were well represented. Below is the list of students who won at States and will be moving on to the International Career and Development Conference in Atlanta, GA.
• Kevin Burke- 1st place in the state of Virginia for Restaurant and Full Service Management Series event
• Katherine David- 2nd place in the state of Virginia for Marketing Management Series event
• Erin Barsanti- 2nd place in the state of Virginia for Food Marketing Series event
• Thomas Taylor and Katie Rediger- 1st place in the state of Virginia for Internet Marketing team decision event
This is a huge accomplishment for our Oakton Students and they will be representing us on in International level at the end of April.
Orchestra (3/10/08)
Congratulations to the Concert, Symphonic, and Chamber Orchestra students for their Superior ratings at the District XII Orchestra Festival held at Herndon High School on Saturday!!
Congratulations to the following 2008 All State Orchestra Members
• Danny Song - Violin
• Wendy Xue and Sarah Toy - Viola
• Matt Armbruster - Cello
• Adam Celli - Bass
• Evan Cannon - Bass - 1st alternate
Band (3/10/08)
Conratulations to all of the concert bands for superior performances on Saturday at the District Concert Band Festival. All three bands received straight superior ratings. As a result of these great performances, the Oakton High School Band program has been designated a Commonwealth of Virginia Honor Band for the 15th time. Congratulations on a job well done.
Business (3/6/08)
The following students won awards at the FBLA Regional Competition. Oakton had over 50 participants in various testing and speaking categories. We were fortunate enough to have 20 of them place. The awards were held at George Mason University on 3/5/08. Those with asterisks will move on to the State competition held April 11-12 in Reston VA.
Social Studies (2/25/08)
Oakton High School history teams dominated the regional History Day competition this past Saturday at George Mason University. OHS swept the group historical display category with first place and second place finishes. Both groups will attend the state History Day competition in Williamsburg in late April. Another group finished second in the Historical website competition and will also advance to the state competition.
1st Place team in Group Historical Exhibit category with their exhibit on the Little Rock 9: Sarah Peacock, Eric Grisson, Chris Weil, Yenni Tan, and Asli Durak.
2nd Place group Exhibit on the Iran Hostage Crisis: Wes Roberts, Matt Johnson, Saeid Kahn, Alex Perry and Ethan Doyle
2nd Place website on World War I and the Treaty of Versailles: Hubert Shang, Michael Raust, Boyuan Wang and Danny Metcalf
Senior Seminar (2/19/08)
Andy Rys is one of ten Virginia students to win the essay contest "Being an America," sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute. He and his parents will be honored in D.C. during a two-day event in April, at which time he will have dinner with Laura Bush and receive a cash award up to $5000 ( to be announced that weekend.) Eliot Waxman and Erica Jacobs sponsored his submission.
Japanese Program (2/19/08)
Sarah Peavey in Japanese 4 class at OHS won the third place in the 2008 National New Year's Card Designing Contest sponsored by the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT). Her card was awarded the third place in High School Level (Artistic Category). Her card along with art work by other Japanese language students will be displayed in the display case outside of the library in March.
Business Honor Society (2/19/08)
The purpose of the Fairfax County Business Honor Society is to promote scholarship, to create an interest in the business community, and to encourage a sense of ethical, social, and public responsibilities. Sophomore and Junior members must be enrolled in their second business course and seniors must be enrolled in their business course. All honor society members must also be members of Future Business Leaders of America:
Kris Picchiottino, David Farney, Ruda Yi, Sarah Parsons, Megan Stangeby, Tim Krappweis, Paul Krappweis, Adam Searle, Jeff Clifford, Will Chaloner, Matt Ellis, Abe Sayyad, Nick Sojka, David Norris, Peter Lee, Robert Deck and Soren Rucker
OHS Sports (2/19/08)
Oakton Boys Basketball would like to announce that Bart Reese was selected to the Concorde District first team and Chris Coyer received honorable mention. Congrats to both on the accomplishment.
Katherine Canales received the following award from the Northern Region Gymnastics Officials.
The Barbara Reinwald Outstanding Senior Gymnast Award
2007-2008
Yearbook (2/7/08)
The 2007 Paragon yearbook has been named a Pacemaker finalist... the Pacemaker is the Pulitzer Prize of student journalism, and it's the highest honor we can receive. The awards will be given in Anaheim in April during the time Mr. Rummel and the yearbook editors are attending a yearbook conference.
Congrats to Chad Rummel and staffers!
Students Win Regional Scholastic Art Awards (1/31/08)
For the more than 1,400 entries from FCPS students, 142 Gold Keys were awarded, 110 Silver Keys were presented, and 137 Certificates of Merit were given for outstanding drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, ceramics, sculptures, computer art and animation, graphic design, videos, mixed media, three-dimensional works, and portfolios. Gold Key award-winning entries will be submitted to the national Scholastic Art Awards competition, where students are awarded national Gold and Silver Keys, as well as monetary awards and scholarships. Awards will be announced in April, and an exhibit of the national winners’ works will be on display in New York later this year ( http://www.fcps.edu/suptapps/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=771 ) To view 2007 Oakton Scholastic Art Award Winners Gallery, click here.
FCPS High Schools Make Magazine’s Top 100 List of America’s Best High Schools (11/30/07)
Three Fairfax County high schools have made U.S. News & World Report’s list of the top 100 high schools in the United States. This is the magazine’s first annual ranking of U.S. high schools. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology was ranked as the best high school in the country. Langley High School was ranked 37th, and Oakton High was ranked 88th. The three Fairfax County public schools are the only Virginia high schools to make the list.
William & Mary Leadership Awards (11/28/07)
Sarah Welsh was one of twenty-four students from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) nominated for the College of William and Mary Leadership Award, which recognizes students who demonstrate leadership both in the classroom and in their communities
Orchestra (11/13/07)
Please congratulate the following students who successfully auditioned last night to become members of the 2008 Senior District XII Orchestra!! The orchestra will perform on January 12, 2008, 4:00 PM, at Langley High School.
Violin II: Laura Schorfheide & Clara Hintermeiser
Cello: Tina Hughes & Andrew Lankenau
Publications (11/13/07)
The yearbook won 2nd Place in the Best of Show contest, being beaten by only one school in the country. Not too shabby. Please congratulate the following students for placing in individual contests:
Asli Durak - Superior Rating, Yearbook Copy/Captions
Jill Burke - Excellent Rating, Yearbook Copy/Captions
Ethan Doyle - Excellent Rating, Feature Writing
Danielle Holstrom, Excellent Rating, Review Writing
Ellie Kaufman - Honorable Mention, Newswriting
Nyssa Wratschko - Honorable Mention, Advertising
LeeAnn Elias was also chosen to have the best photo at the convention, and her photo can be viewed on the main page of the Journalism Education Web site: http://www.jea.org/
Congratulations to the chorus students who successfully auditioned to be selected for participation in All District Chorus! The event will be hosted by Herndon High School on February 7-9, 2008. Juniors and Seniors qualify and are now eligible to audition at the All District event to advance to All State Chorus.
Orchestra and Band (11/12/07)
Congratulate the orchestra and band students who successfully auditioned to become members of the 2007 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra. After rehearsing all day Friday and Saturday at Hayfield Secondary School, the orchestra gave a spectacular performance of the Spiderman Suite and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12 on Saturday evening!
Violin I: Marina Aikawa - Concertmaster
Cello: Matthew Armbruster and Kevin Sun
Bass: Evan Cannon and Adam Celli
Flute II: Ashley Kong
Harp: Katya Rucker
Band (10/29/07)
Congratulations to all members of the Cougar Marching Band and Guard for earning a superior rating at the Virginia State Marching Festival on Saturday, October 27th. This rating means that our band program is one step closer toward achieving the distinction of Virginia Honor Band for 2008. Thanks to all members for their hard work and long hours that started on August 1.
Publications (10/29/07)
Congratulations to members of newspaper, yearbook and lit mag staffs. On Saturday, October 27th, at the VHSL State Championship, all three publications were ranked TROPHY class, the highest award you can receive in Virginia. This is an amazing accomplishment that no other school in FCPS managed.
In addition, the following students placed in individual award contests:
LeeAnn Elias, First Place, Feature Photo
Tyler Herrinton, First Place, Sports Photo
Matt Johnson, First Place, Newspaper Design
Jill Burke, Honorable Mention, Caption Writing
Allison Ho, Honorable Mention, Magazine Poetry (Susan Sullivan's student).
Publications (10/15/07)
Congratulations to Oakton's Chad Rummel, Publication teacher! Chad was named Educator of the Year by the Vienna-Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Band (10/9/07)
The members of the Cougar Marching Band competed in two contests on Saturday and won two grand championships. The first contest was the Jefferson Classic at Monticello High School where Oakton won first place in class 5A, first place in music, first place in marching and first place in general effect and the guard won first place. In addition, Oakton won first place in the Gold division and the overall grand championship, receiving the highest score of all bands in all classes. The band then traveled to Charlottesville High School to compete in the Charlottesville Cavalcade where Oakton won first place in class 5A, highest marching and general effect scores and the guard won first place for the second time. In addition, Oakton won the overall grand championship, again receiving the highest score of all bands in all classes.
Band (10/1/07)
Congratulations to the members of the Cougar Marching Band on a spectacular performance this past weekend at the Virginia Showcase of Bands. Oakton won first place in class 6A, including first place in music, marching/visual, general effect and colorguard. Our colorguard received the highest score of all guards in all classes. Congratulations again to all band members for their great performance and their hard work.
Publications (9/12/07)
The Oakton Outlook received an All-American Rating with Five Marks of Distinction from the National Scholastic Press Association in a critique of its 2006-2007 publications. The Outlook received 4000 out of 4000 possible points. This is the highest possible score that any publication in the country can receive.
The Paragon yearbook received an All-American Rating with Four Marks of Distinction from the National Scholastic Press Association in a critique of its 2006-2007 publications. The Paragon received 3840 out of 4000 possible points. The Paragon also received an All-Southern ratin from the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, which is also the highest award a publication can receive.
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