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Moorestown Friends School E-News - May 28, 2010 Plan Ahead!
Boys Tennis Wins South Jersey Championship for Second Straight Year
Eleven Students Earn National Honors in National French Contest Eleven Moorestown Friends School students won awards in the National French Contest (NFC). The NFC is an annual exam open to every school in the country. Students are tested in the areas of listening and reading comprehension, as well as their understanding of grammatical structures. A total of 69 MFS students took the NFC exam in 2009. More than 100,000 students nationally completed the exam this year. More than 3,000 students were from the Philadelphia area. Top rank national winners scored in the 85th percentile or above. The following MFS students were top rank national winners: seniors Alison Barton and Ben Lasserre; sophomores Carolyn Chelius, Katherine Churchill, Amanda Connell, Val Demuynck, Karan Hiremath and Madison Taormina; freshman Maggie Fischer; and eighth graders Sarah Applegate and Emma Giordano. Three Students Earn Gold Medals in National Spanish Exam Three Moorestown Friends School students won gold medal placements for their excellent performance on the 2009 National Spanish Examinations, which were taken by 135,000 U.S. students this year. Gold medalists from MFS were sophomore Angel Mathew, freshman Ashleigh Cartwright and eighth grader Joseph Slawek. The National Spanish Examinations are administered annually in grades 7 through 12, and are sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Gold medal recognition goes to students scoring at or above the 95th percentile. MFS students won a total of 39 medals. Click here for the complete list. Students Earn Top Honors in National Science League MFS placed second in the Environmental Science National Science League and third in the Life Science National Science League. In addition, juniors Greg Yingling and Josh Gregory were national student winners in the National Science League Environmental Science contest. Members of the Environmental Science team were: Steve Decker, Curran Ellis, Josh Gregory, Meredith Jensen, Nicolette Olivieri, James Schultz, Benjamin Smith, Isabella Whittaker-Inserra Greg Yingling and Jordan Zaid. MFS Life Science team members were: Chuchu Anayo, Matthew Brown, Aaron Ferber, Eric Harkaway, Benjamin Herman, Liana Hershey, Alexander Hines, Andrew Jaffe, Joseph Kiernan, Jack Singer and Simone Stanley. Students Present Work at Robotics Networking Event
Ten students from Mr. Newman's Biology II Honors and AP Biology classes presented their work in a judged poster competition: George Bader, Saheb Bhasin (above left), Nick Cook, Dominique Gnatowski, Jill Gonyea, Harrison Krohn (above middle), Devin Massaro (above right), Anehita Oribabor, Matt Tamburri and Darshak Thosani. Students from several other NJ/NY area high schools and colleges presented posters on a variety of topics, including neuroscience, engineering, genetics, and microbiology. Additionally, the MFS Robotics teams were represented by Karan Hiremath, Gabe Hege and Taylor Cheng, who networked with robotics and information system professionals. LRIG's mission is to provide a forum for the laboratory automation (i.e., robotics) community. By getting researchers and engineers together, they hope to speed the pace of discovery, invention and application of automated systems in research and industry, particularly pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, agricultural, cosmetic, food, and specialty manufacturing. Doing Well and Doing Good: MFS at 225...PRE-ORDER TODAY!
*Click here to purchase Doing Well and Doing Good: MFS at 225* Important Notice from School Nurses Please stop into the health office and collect your child’s medication. We cannot store medication over the summer months. Medication must be handed to a parent or guardian. Any medication that is not collected before the last day of school, June 11, will be destroyed. Please email or call the number below with any questions or concerns. Thank you and have a safe and healthy summer vacation! --Edie Anderson, RN and Sheryl Gofman, RN Friday, May 28 Monday, May 31 Wednesday, June 2 Friday, June 4 Sunday, June 6 Monday, June 7 Tuesday, June 8 Wednesday, June 9
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On April 25, the Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) Music and Dance Medley raised $355 for the FEP Scholarship fund and was a huge success. A total of 21 young musicians and dancers performed to the delight of the audience. Participating in the Music and Dance Medley were young people from the Moorestown Friends community: Jasmine and Ashleigh Cartwright (ballet), Chiara, Abrial, and Breana Cocelli (piano), Dennis Walter '08 (guitar) and Eric Teitlebaum '08 (violin); and members of the Moorestown Friends Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Brian Howard. During the event, freshman Ashleigh Cartwright was honored for her outstanding contribution as the creator, choreographer, and director of the FEP ballet class, which was first convened in the fall of 2009 and performed brilliantly, surpassing everyone’s expectations. Submit notable out-of-classroom highlights for Fox Tracks to news@mfriends.org. To unsubscribe to Moorestown
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The Moorestown Friends boys tennis team downed Sacred Heart of Vineland 3-2 on Tuesday to capture the South Jersey Non-Public B championship. The top-seeded Foxes defeated Gloucester Catholic last week in the semifinals to reach the championship match. Registering victories in the Sacred Heart match were first singles Eric Maertin, the first doubles team of Shawn Gupta and Josh Myers and the second doubles team of Jake Brown and Luke Timber.
On May 11, a group of students, led by Upper School Science Teacher Drew Newman, traveled to the 2010 LRIG (Laboratory of Robotics Interest Group) Mid-Atlantic Conference in New Brunswick. This annual event provides an opportunity for students to practice their public speaking skills and gain exposure to applied science at the highest levels.
"During Colonial times, local families often maintained small Quaker schools in Quaker homes. But by 1779, according to old minutes from the nearby Evesham Monthly Meeting and reported in previous histories, Quakers appointed a committee for 'ye regulating of schools,' with the recommendation that each particular Monthly Meeting establish a school. Two years later in Moorestown, the Chester Preparative Meeting of Friends bought a piece of land in order to build a schoolhouse on the south side of what was then known as Salem Road or today’s Main Street, just a stone’s throw from the Moorestown Meeting House..."