Honors and Awards 2009 - 2012
| Governor's
Award for Educational Excellence |
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"89
Virginia public schools have met the rigorous criteria required
to earn the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence.
The award is the highest honor under a new incentive program
for schools and school divisions created by the Board of Education
to advance Governor Kaine’s “competence to excellence”
agenda." W.T. Woodson High School is one of those schools.
Learn more at
www.governor.virginia.gov/MediaRelations/NewsReleases/viewRelease.cfm?id=584 |
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| Blue Ribbon School Award |
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Each year schools in the Commonwealth are considered for the Virginia Music Educators Association's highest award, The Blue Ribbon School Award. The award is given to those few schools who's band, choir, and orchestra ALL perform at the Superior level. Woodson's Performing Arts department is one of the 2010 recipients of The Blue Ribbon School Award. We are very proud to receive this award! |
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| Challenge
Index Rating |
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Newsweek
ranks public schools using the Challenge Index Rating system devised
by Jay Matthews in which the number of Advanced Placement, Intl.
Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at
a school in a given year divided by the number of graduating
seniors. For 2009, W.T. Woodson High School was ranked 72 in the nation, one of two Fairfax High Schools in the top 100 out of 1,564 top U.S. High Schools. |
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2008
- 2009 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement
High School Winner |
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The
Siemens Foundation recognizes one high school per state for
leading their state in AP participation and performance in science,
math and technology based on date from all schools participating
in AP. The College Board uses data to select qualified high
schools which must then apply and compete for the award. W.T.
Woodson was awarded a $1,000 grant from the Siemens Foundation
as the 2008 - 2009 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement High
School Winner. To see details on the competition, visit: www.siemens-foundation.org/en/advanced_placement/about_saap.htm To see all Siemens Foundation award winners, visit: www.siemens-foundation.org/pool/documents/word_listing_of_08-09_saap_winners.pdf. |
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| U.S.
News & World Report Gold Medal List |
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U.S.
News & World Report uses a 3-step analysis process to choose
America's Best High Schools. From a sampling of 21,000 high
schools, W.T. Woodson was ranked as #90 out of the top 100.
Discover the actual list at: www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2008/12/04/best-high-schools-gold-medal-list.html?PageNr=4 and discover the methodology at: www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2008/12/04/americas-best-high-schools-methodology.html |
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Student
Awards |
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National
Merit Scholarship Program - "The
National Merit® Scholarship Program is an academic competition
for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school
students enter the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary
SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®)—
a test which serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.3
million entrants each year — and by meeting published
program entry/participation requirements." The PSAT/NMSQT®
only counts towards scholarships when the test is taken in the
Junior year. Taking the test in earlier years provides excellent
practice opportunities. |
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Merit Semi Finalists and Finalists - Our
W.T. Woodson National Merit Semi-Finalists scored in the top
fraction of one percent among Virginia test takers on the
PSAT test in October of 2011. Six of Woodson's talented
students have been chosen as National Merit Semi-Finalist. These students will be considered for a position as a National Merit Finalist. Congratulations go to Class of 2013 students: |
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Justin Adamson |
Minyeop Lee |
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Christian Burruss |
Rachel Orleans-Pobee |
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Patrick Depret-Guillaum |
Sally Watts |
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| National
Merit Commended Students - Once
again, a large number of Woodson seniors have been named National
Merit Commended Students. These students rank in the top five
per cent of seniors in the country based on the October 2011
PSAT/NMSQT Test. We are proud of these Class of 2013
students. |
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Caroline Cosby
William Crosswait
Bryce DeBolt
Brentford Do
Sarah Donnelly
Petar Duric
Elizabeth Gasteiger
Walter Gawlak
Alexandra Griffin
Brittany Hacker
Hayley Hahn
Cory Hansen
Sara Ho
Priscilla Houk
Zachary Hutcheson
Ji Jeon
Julie Jung
Matthew Kearney
Brandon Kern
Stephannie Ku
Caroline Lebegue
Seokhoon Lee
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Rachel Major
Sean Maraia
Annette Min
Marilyn Minton
Quinn Monette
Dae Moon
Stephen Muldoon
Melissa Pasierb
Nicole Piche
Jacob Promisel
Danarubini Ramanan
Ariella Richmond
Dylan Rye
Claire Sagurton
Katherine Sosa
David Stoss
Nathan Tran
Erika Weiskopf
Ruiying Yang
Brian Yudkin
Melissa Zhu
Kate Bosh
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National
Achievement® Scholarship Program-The National Achievement® Scholarship Program recognizes outstanding African-American high school students. Students recognized by this program ranked very hign on the PSAT/NMSQT Test taken in their Junior year of high school. We are delighted to congratulate three students in the WTW Class of 2013 who have been recognized as 2013 National Achievement Program Semifinalists and two who have advanced to Finalist (*): |
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* Ndukwe Iko
* Birhan Musse
Rachel Orleans-Pobee
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| National
Hispanic Recognition Program- The National Hispanic
Recognition program was established by College Board in 1983
to recognize the academic achievements of Hispanic students
and to help identify their accomplishments for post-secondary
schools. Recognition comes by taking the PSAT test as a high
school Junior. Achievement in this test coupled with further
evidence of academic achievement are used to choose National
Hispanic Scholars. We are pleased to recognize Woodson's
own, Class of 2012: |
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Mariela Mannion, National Hispanic Scholar |
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Juliana Stewart, National Hispanic Scholar |
| 2011 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing - The Bank of America, together with the National Center for Women & Information Technology sponsor the National Award for Aspirations in Computing. 35 high school women are recognized with this award for their accomplishments and aspirations in computing and technology at the Bank of America Technology Stars of the Future Showcase & Awards Ceremony. Read the full press release at www.ncwit.org/news.press.php?action=display&pressrelease_id=20699. We are proud of WTW's winner: |
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Elena Nadolinski |
| Botball Tournament Winners - The WTW Robotics Club succeeded in producing innovative mechanical designs to solve advanced problems as well as utilizing programming skills to win 3rd place in the 2010 Regional Botball Tournament in which they competed against 58 teams. They also succeeded in winning the 2nd Place Double Elimination Award in competition with 72 international teams at the 2010 International Botball Tournament. 2010 was an exciting year for our W.T. Woodson Robotics Team, and they deserve the honors they have worked to earn. |
| 2008
Youth Award - The
YOUTH Award is sponsored by the Office of the Attorney General
of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the law firm of Troutman
Sanders, LLP. This program recognizes and rewards those special
young people who take the initiative to serve their communities
and become positive role models for their peers and younger
children. Out of over 150 applicants in the Commonwealth of
Virginia, only eleven were chosen, two of whom are W.T. Woodson
students. W.T. Woodson is pleased and proud to congratulate |
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Karen
Bergeron |
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| National
Council of Teachers of English Achievement Award - The National Council of Teachers of English recognizes excellence in writing. Honorees are selected from the writings of nominated students from the 50 states, District of Columbia, Canada, the Virgin Islands, and American schools abroad. 543 students were selected as outstanding writers out of 1,641 submissions for the 2009 awards. Only 13 honorees were chosen from Virginia. Of those 13, Emily Manno was selected. Congratulations go to |
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Macara Oshida |
Amanda Whitehurst |
| National Pacemaker Award - ACP's Pacemaker competition recognizes yearbook publications every year. Yearbooks are judged by professionals, working independently, who know design, journalism, and yearbooks. In February 2012, for the first time in 50 years, the WTW 2011 Cavalier achieved finalist status in the competition. Congratulations go to the editors, staff, and faculty advisor. Discover more at http://studentpress.org/nspa/winners/ypm11.html and at http://studentpress.org/acp/contests.html#ypm. |
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Katherine Sebunia, faculty advisor |
Caitlin Rider, editor
Kristen Schumacher, editor
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| Virginia High School League Publication Evaluation Awards (VHSL) - The VVHSL Publication Evaluation is highly a competitive, rigorous review of student publications. Newspapers, Yearbooks, and Literary magazines are assessed int he areas of form and content. The diversity of coverage, visually appealing layoug appropriate to topic, credibility of sources, judicious integration of quotations, and adherence to style manual are all considered. WTW is pleased to recognize |
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Page - First Place, Magazine Division
The Cavalcade - First Place, Newspaper Division
The Cavalier - First Place, Yearbook Division |
American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Performance-The W.T. Woodson High School Select Women's Ensemble was selected to preform for the 2012 Southern Division ACDA Conference in Winston-Salem, NC. Thjis ensemble was one of only 18, in a field of over 100, chosen to perform for the conference. Selection marks a high standard of performance. CONGRATULATIONS!
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School
Music Awards
- In
2007, the Virginia Music Educators Association named W.T.
Woodson High School a Blue Ribbon School. This award goes
to a school in which all misical groups, band, chorus, and
orchestra perform at superior levels.
- The
Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association named
the W.T. Woodson Band a Virginia Honor Band for 2006-2007.
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Faculty
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Cornell University Merrill Presidential Scholars Program Teacher Honoree - Each spring semester at Cornell University, 36 scholars are named to receive the Merrill Presidential Scholar Award. Each scholar, in turn, recognizes a high school teacher who most inspired their scholastic development. Amanda Wang, WTW Class of 2007, has chosen her former English teacher to receive this honor. "Of all the classes I took at Woodson, yours in particular stands out in my memory as being both intellectually stimulating and enjoyable." In addition to being honored in a campus visit, a one-time $4,000 scholarship is established in the teacher's name for a student from our area attending Cornell University. (Read about it at www.news.cornell.edu/stories/may08/Merrill.scholars.html.) It is a pleasure to know our students remember their WTW teachers, especially this teacher: |
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Ron Shapiro |
| The Redskins High School Coach of the Week Program recognizes and rewards excellence in high school football coaching. Coach Trey Taylor has been coaching at W.T. Woodson High School for six years, as head coach for the last four. His emphasis on hard work, attention to detail, caring for each other, and pride in WTW has helped him become the Coach of the Week for the week of 26 October 2009. Congratulations to |
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Coach Trey Taylor |
| 2009 Artist Teacher Exhibition shows art of 64 artist/teachers chosen by juror Kurt Godwin from 270 submissions. W.T. Woodson is pleased that our art teachers are among those chosen for the exhibition. |
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Rachel Huddleston
Jayne Matricardi-Burke |
| 2010 Virginia
Technology Education Association's (VTEA) Achievement
Award - Virginia Technology Education
Association's (VTEA) 50th annual conference was held in August
2010 at which they presented the VTEA Achievemt
Award to. |
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Chu-Chun
Tsai |
| 2010 Bandworld Legion of Honor - iEvery year the John Philip Sousa Foundation awards eight of the finest band directors the Bandworld Legion of Honor. Recipients must have taught for at least fifteen yuears, have maintained a very high quality concert band program, and have contributed significantly to the profession through dedication to bands and band music. Woodson is proud that our very own was honored at the annual Sousa Foundation awards during the Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. |
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Melinda McKenzie Hall |
| Fairfax
County Times Citizen of the Year - 2007 awardee is an often recognized WTW teacher. Get the
details at at www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2007/dec/19/woodsons-pied-piper/ |
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Michael
Ehrlich, Choral Director |
| Making
a Difference Award - The Making a Difference
Award is an annual award given by Phi Delta Kappa (PDK),
an education honor and service fraternity, for Faculty
and/or Staff who truly make a difference in student lives.
We are proud that members of our W.T. Woodson team have
been honored with the Making a Difference Award. |
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2007 |
Erle
Nielsen, Transcript / Testing Assistant |
2008 |
Beverly
Chestnut, Counselor |
| National Board Certification - One of the highest
honors a teacher can receive is National Board Certification.
This recognition is based on a lengthy application process
and close scrutiny by the National Board for Professional
Teacher Standards. This certification requires 200 -
400 hours of work beyond the normal teaching workload.
These teachers are certified for teaching throughout
the United States and receive a bonus from the Commonwealth
of Virginia. Congratulations go to: |
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Cynthia
Alexander, certified in Adolescent/Young Adult English
Language Arts, 2002 |
| Elva
Card, certified in Adolescence /Young Adult in Social
Studies History, 2007. |
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| Outstanding
Service Awards for 2007 |
| Awarded
by the Adult and Community Education of FCPS |
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John
Duffy, Teacher |
| Awarded
by the Virginia Choral Directors Association |
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Michael
Ehrlich, Choral Director |
| 2006
VADETS Teacher of the Year Award (Virginia Driver Education and Safety) honored one of W.T. Woodson's own for his outstanding leadership in preparing new driver education teachers through the FCPS staff development program. Congratulations go to |
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John
Duffy, Teacher |
| USA
Today All-USA Teacher Teams - Each year, USA-Today honors the most outstanding teachers in the country. On October 17, 2002, this award was given to our W.T. Woodson |
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Choral
Director, Michael Ehrlich |
| Wolf
Trap Foundation Scholarship Program - supports arts education that parallels Wolf Trap's performance
and education priorities... scholarships are awarded to
individual public high school teachers/classes in the
performing arts for instruction leading to student performance.
Our awardee was honored as a result of his longtime commitment
to quality performing arts education. The plan for this
2004 Wolf Trap Foundation Scholarship of $2,500 scholarship
award is to commission an original composition with input
from the Select Vocal Ensemble. All five Woodson ensembles
will perform the work in March. Congratulations and thanks
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Virginia Art Educator's Award for the
Northern Region was given in November. W.T. Woodson is
pleased that they chose to recognize one of our own to
receive the Secondary Art Educator of the Year Award. |
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Donna
Head |
| 2008
Virginia Thespian Educator of the Year - The
Virginia State Thespian Conference at Christopher Newport
University named our own Ms. Terri Hobson the Virginia
Thespian Educator of the Year. Congratulations to Terri
and all of the wonderful performing arts students whom
she has touched over the years. |
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Terri
Hobson |
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| PUBLICATION
AWARDS |
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Yearbook
- 2008 Virginia High School League Academic Fall
Champion Yearbook Division Trophy Class (The Highest Honor
from the VHSL) |
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Calvacade
- 2007 First Place Winner. |
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Cavalier
Yearbook - 2007 Trophy Winner, the highest possible
honor! |
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Page
Literary Magazine - 2007 Trophy Winner, the highest
possible honor! |
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