Awards & Accomplishments
2007-2008
Team EMAL Wins Video Contest
5/2008
Thanks to all who voted for Team EMAL in the "Express Yourself" 3 hour/3 minute video contest - they won!!! One of the contest organizers surprised us last night by showing up at the EMAL Movie Night with the great news. Please give your congratulations to the winning team of Manuel Pena, Omar Cristo, and Anielka Zuniga-Cruz. They genuinely deserved the first place honor.
Check out http://www.gandhibrigade.org/ for more details.
AEHS/VAC Senior Anna L.
Winner of 8th Congressional District 2008 Art Competition
8th District Congressional High School Art Show at Strathmore Hall May 5th, 2008. Anna is a senior at Albert Einstein High School and is earning her International Baccalaureate Certificate. She has attended the MCPS Visual Art Center program since her freshman year. Anna has also received a Silver Portfolio Award from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She will be attending Boston University in the Fall.
Einstein HS wins "Best of the Web"- High School Award
Website Contributors:
Paula Peró, Foreign Language Resource Teacher- Primary Webmaster
Leah Havener, Math Teacher- Webmaster
Angela Blade, Business Manager - Calendar
Amy Conner, IB Coordinator- IB Page
Adrian Charley, Academies Coordinator- Academies Page
Kit Forage, USS- Technical Support
Click here to see video
Thanks for turning off the lights!
Einstein HS has qualified for a Green Schools award! Green School representative Jim Stufft will be here in a few weeks to congratulate the Environmental Club, Ms Olsen, and Ms Kerr, SCB Students and Building Service workers who were all instrumental in making sure our school was energy efficient. Congratulations!
Congratulations Cookie!
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Congratulations to Ariel S. "Cookie", the winner of the 2008 Gates Millennium Scholarship. The Gates Foundation scholarship covers room, board, tuition plus a stipend for 10 years of education.
This fall Cookie plans to attend Carnegie Mellon University.
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Teacher and students honored at the Wheaton Kensington Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner
This evening Ms. Cassandra Kovacs will be honored as the Einstein Teacher of The Year at the Wheaton Kensington Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner! Einstein senior Giulia G. will be recognized as the student who has given the most to her community and senior Henry T. will be honored as the best ESOL student of the year. The awards dinner will begin at 6:00 pm at the Hollywood East on The Boulevard Restaurant on University Blvd. The cost for guests is $35 at the door.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ NIH/ MCPS
Ana C. has been selected to participate in the prestigious and unique Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ National Institutes of Health/ Montgomery County Public Schools internship for the 2008-2009 school year.
Congratulations to Manaye Felleke Mammo
Manaye Felleke Mammo has been selected to serve as a student representative on the Superintendents Advisory Board for Student Service Learning. If you see him, please congratulate him on his appointment.
Einstein Students Will Compete at the State Level
Congratulations to Stefany Turcios, Julio Cruz and Anne Coloma for receiving an Award of Excellence at the county judging of the national PTA "Reflections" Arts program. Each of the students produced films which will be moving on to compete at the state level. Good luck to them at the next stage!
Ellen Sands, PTSA Reflections Chair
EMAL wins 2nd Place Award at Montgomery County Media Festival
A team of students from the ESOL Multimedia Arts Literacy class won second place at the Montgomery County Media Festival in the persuasive film category. Manuel P. was the director and deserves a lot of credit. Julio C., Hellen R., Leo M., and Anielka Z. were all on his team. This is a huge accomplishment as they were competing against many high schools - including some schools with large media programs - and they were the ONLY ESOL students in the festival. Please share your congratulations with these students and extend Ms. Ellen B. Daniels KUDOS for her hard work and dedication to her students.
MCPS County Solo Festival
Congratulations to the following music students for receiving a Superior Rating ( I ) in the MCPS county solo festival held at Paint Branch on March 8th.
- Kira Levitsky, Flute
- Eliot Seppa, Bass
- Ben O'Toole, Trumpet
- Isabelle Smith, Cello
- Claire Paulson, Tenor Sax
- Daniel Toretsky, Trombone
The following student received an Excellent II
LASU wins big at the 3rd Annual Latin Dance Competition
Saturday LASU represented Einstein HS at the 3rd Annual Latin Dance Competition held at Dominion HS in Sterling, Virginia. We competed against Clarksburg HS, Seneca Valley HS, Watkins Mill HS, Edison HS (Fairfax, VA), Park View HS (Sterling, VA) and Dominion HS (Sterling, VA).
As always the hard work paid off.
1st Place Samba Couples - Karen Zepeda & Kevin Caballero
2nd Place Cha Cha Couples- Karen Carbajal & Cristian Panameño
1st Place Jack & Jill- Ana Coello with a student from Clarksburg HS
1st Place Group- The group performed the same dance they performed at Taste of Einstein.
- Melissa Alvarez
- Kevin Caballero
- Karen Carbajal
- Vanessa Chaparro
- Ana Coello
- Alicia Escoto
- Fatima Esparza
- Lisa Fuentes
- Diego Hernandez
- Maria Moreno
- Dennis Orellana
- Kevin Sihuas
- Marcus Suero
- Cristian Panameño
- Blen Sime
- Gisela de la Vega
- Karen Zepeda
In addition, when all the points were added we also brought home a large trophy for winning the competition. Please congratulate the students for their hard work since they have worked very hard and were very proud to represent Einstein HS at the competition.