Good Beginnings of the Upper Valley is inviting parents and teachers to a lecture on the theme of “Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World” on Wednesday night at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
Devorah Heitner, a consultant and author specializing in helping people strike a balance in their use of social media and the internet, will present the Dorothy Campion Corcoran Fall Lecture in DHMC’s Auditorium E-F at 6:30, then answer questions and sign copies of Screenwise, her book of recommendations for guiding children through the digital gauntlet.
Admission is free. To learn more about Heitner, visit raisingdigitalnatives.com.
Scholarship-Shape
Crossroads Academy eighth-grader Maxine Park will attend the high school of her choice tuition-free, under a scholarship recently awarded by the Institute for Educational Advancement.
Park is one of 28 gifted middle-schoolers nationwide, and the only New England resident, to win a 2017 Caroline D. Bradley scholarship from the IEA, through the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. She is the third Hanover resident in the last eight years, and the second Crossroads student in the last three, to receive the scholarship. Crossroads graduate Katherine Duan is attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., under the scholarship she received in 2015.
Students apply for the scholarship as seventh-graders, submitting essays, transcripts and faculty recommendations. They also must achieve grades at or above the 97th percentile on national standardized tests and score competitively with high school seniors on the SAT reasoning exam or the ACT test.
Park is in the process of visiting secondary schools she’s considering attending.
To learn more about the IEA’s Caroline D. Bradley Scholars program, and to find an application, visit educationaladvancement.org .
Twenty Upper Valley high school seniors are in the running for some of the 7,500 National Merit Scholarships up for grabs in the coming year.
Area students among the 16,000 semifinalists who emerged from a pack of 1.5 million competitors are, by school:
Lebanon High School — Sophia Miller.
Thetford Academy — Emma Bauer.
Hanover High School — Lincoln Adam, Johanna Bandler, Molly Cook, Sarah Dunbar, Duolan Guo, Catherine Han, Joseph Jacobs, Brook Leigh, Isabel Loftus, Shaylee McBride, Jasper Meyer, Alexander Mosenthal, Sofia Sacerdote, Max Taxman, Thomas Usherwood, Catherine Wagner, David Wilson and Mindy Wu.
Semifinalists were chosen based on the scores, during their junior years, on the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. To become finalists, the semifinalists and their high schools must submit applications documenting their academic records, their community and school activities, honors and awards, employment and leadership skills.
High School Honors
Lebanon resident Kathryn Lewis has been named to the Northfield Mount Hermon School’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society. She is one of 14 students at the western-Massachusetts independent school elected to the honor society for their academic achievements as juniors.
Citing her grades, her extracurricular activities and her quiet leadership, the faculty at Lebanon High School recently named senior Rachel Grohbrugge as its student of the month for September.
Grohbrugge was nominated for the award by band teacher Lauren Haley. In addition to her achievements in the classroom, Grohbrugge volunteers in many capacities, including orientation of new freshmen.
By Degrees
Four Upper Valley residents received bachelor’s degrees from Bates College on May 29, during commencement ceremonies at the liberal-arts school in Lewiston, Maine.
The graduating students are Newport resident Elyse Rubchinuk, Meriden’s William Sheehan, Hanover’s Alex Brown and Newbury, Vt., resident Gwenyth Williams.
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