STUDENTS HONORED AT
ACADEMIC AWARDS CEREMONY
May 22, 2003

Scholarships

Maryland Senatorial District 20 Scholarship
Quang Luu
Preethi Soman

Alpha Kappa Alpha Scholarship Award
Jasmin Miller

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Scholarship Award
David Oluwatimilehin

Bobby Deane Memorial Scholarship
Patricia Pressley

Burtonsville Lion's Club Scholarship Awards
Jamie Lee
Tanya James

Comcast Student Achievement Scholarship Award
Kellie O'Neal

Eric Covington Memorial Award
Jamie Lee
Rohey Jobe

Florida A&M Alumni Association Scholarship Awards
Jasmin Miller

Fred Lowenbach Award
Shannon Long

Donald Henyon College Assistance Fund Award
Justin Holden

Joseph Edwards Scholarship
Andreas Senai-Alemou

Montgomery College Board of Trustees Academic Potential Scholarship
Kavita Sethi

Nancy Peckerar Outstanding Internship Award
Joshua Silverstein

Sandy Spring Friends Lee Stern Pacemaker Award
Jacqueline Russell

Awards & Recognition

Dartmouth College Book Award
Oluwatoni Aluko

Mount Holyoke Book Award
Hasina Jamal

Wellesley College Book Award
Patricia Taylor

Worchester Polytechnic Institute Book Award
Zhigang Pan

Marian Greenblatt Award for Excellence in Social Studies
Anne Chlebowski

Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) Outstanding Citizenship Award
Hilary Scherer

University of Rochester Humanities and Social Science Awards
Oluwatoni Aluko

Bausch and Lomb Science Award
Andrew Huang

George Washington University Engineering Award
Isha Gupta

Rensselaer Medal for Science and Engineering
Zhigang Pan

President's Awards - Educational Excellence

Student's receiving this award have earned at least a 3.5 GPA and scored at least a 1300 or better on the SAT.

Amandeep Bakshi
Shannon Bean
Sara Berberich
Christopher Chew
Jina Chung
Daniel Grosberg
Willene Hare
Joshua Kahn
Peter Kang
Aparna Kothary
Jilna Kothary
Prasad Kutty
Jamie Lee
Erin Margolis
Daniel Mendelsohn
Alena Naumova
Christine Pettit
Carlita Phillip
Joshua Silverstein
Brian Smith
Jennifer Twigg
Caitlin Vandevander

President's Award Educational Achievement
Student' s receiving this award have shown outstanding academic achievement during their high school career.

Aman Abdissa
Tesfay Berhanu
Brooke Collins
Erica Davis
Regina Divya
George Dominguez
MacKenlov Dorival
Shaquanda Dunn
Kamar Duval
Gregorio Ford Jr
Dock Graham
Jennifer Harris
Antionette Haynes
Rohey Jobe
Bassirou Kante
Leemu Kolleh
Diana Krolikowski
Lawan Lanier
Quang Luu
Marcia Nott
Marggie Ortiz
Taylor (Pi) Overton
Patricia Pressley
Yonatan Sertsu
James Turner
Andre Watson
Amy Wood
Sandeep Yentrapati

National Achievement Scholarship & Maryland Governor's Merit Scholarship Awards
This award goes to students in the top 5% in the state of Maryland

Chalita Atallah
Sara Berberich
Christopher Chew
Jina Chung
Shelley Greenberg
Alex Hamidi
Aparna Kothary
Jilna Kothary
Prasad Kutty
Jamie Lee
Daniel Mendelsohn
Alena Naumova
Daniel Paek
Ifdaias Perez
Brian Smith
John Speares
Jennifer Twigg
Caitlin Vandevander

All-Around Achiever Awards (PTSA)

Jennifer Twigg
Brooke Mead
Daniel Grosberg
Stefanie C. King
Joshua Kahn
Jeremy Daquioag Esperon
Rebecca Thompson
Tae Mo Kwon
Sara Berberich
Austin Bogus
Theresa Edwards

Academic Excellence, Cumulative 4.0 GPA
Straight A's for their entire high school career

Seniors

Sara Berberich
Christopher Chew
John Speares

Juniors

Anne Chlebowski
Theresa Edwards
Brooke Meade
Zhigang Pan

Sophomores

Jennifer Axe
Joshua Craddock
Amy Kaylor
Grace Koo
William Marchica
Kristen Markham
Andrew Paek
Kelly Pernia
Sahar Rasolee
Chandni Shah
Sandeep Soman
Ali Syed
Jonathan Zepp

Freshmen

Sukhdeep Aneja
Krishna Bhamidipati
Rachel Blair
Andrew Brimmer
Hoang Bui
Jamie Cox
Erin Harper
Justin Jacob
Andrea Rose Jimenez
Brian Kuhn
Stephanie Lidd
Palak Patel
Noorulain Siddiqi
Christopher Tabisz
Molly Tannen
Rebecca Yu

Departmental Awards for Outstanding Achievement

Art

Lawan Lanier Plaque Ceramics

Matthew Silva Plaque Ceramics

Oluwatoni Aluko Certificate Ceramics

Sarah Grinberg Certificate Ceramics

Jennifer Ferretti Plaque Photography

Jacqueline Russell Plaque Photography

Justin Mein Plaque Photography

Lauren Kasmir Certificate Photography

Adam Golfer Plaque Studio Art

Erin Margolis Plaque Studio Art

Susanna Oresky Plaque Studio Art

Amy Dodd Certificate Studio Art

Jonathan Petska Certificate Studio Art

April Stovall Certificate Studio Art

Katherine Waterworth Certificate Studio Art

Krista White Certificate Studio Art

Business Education & Computer Science

Stephen Jolles Plaque Business Education

Peter Kang Plaque Business Education

Cole Mangum Plaque Business Education

Matthew Silva Plaque Business Education

Matthew Lidd Certificate Business Education

Amandeep Bakshi Plaque Computer Science

Ryan Budd Plaque Computer Science

Matthew Morrison Plaque Computer Science

Aktta Patel Plaque Computer Science

George Anderson Certificate Computer Science

Leonard Goff Certificate Computer Science

Solomon Mikael Certificate Computer Science

Kelvin Powell, Jr. Certificate Computer Science

Prateek Sharma Certificate Computer Science

Career and Technology Education

Quang Luu Plaque Career & Technology Education

Derrick Miller Certificate Career & Technology Education

Tyrus Farrow, Jr. Plaque Cooperative Work Experience (CWE)

ColeMangum Plaque Cooperative Work Experience (CWE)

Lindsay Proctor Plaque Cooperative Work Experience (CWE)

Samantha Schultz Plaque Cooperative Work Experience (CWE)

Carly Turner Certificate Cooperative Work Experience (CWE)

Latoya Carlyle Plaque Family & Consumer Science

Jennifer Harris Plaque Family & Consumer Science

Alyssa Thorsen Plaque Family & Consumer Science

Linda Abbey Certificate Family & Consumer Science

Austin Ginsberg Certificate Family & Consumer Science

Katherine Laudwein Certificate Family & Consumer Science

Megan Sterling Certificate Family & Consumer Science

Jennifer Talbot Certificate Family & Consumer Science

Azariah Conerly Plaque Technology Innovations

Shaquanda Dunn Plaque Technology Innovations

Woong Shik (Kevin) Choi Certificate Technology Innovations

Mark De Leon Certificate Technology Innovations

Ashley Fauntleroy Certificate Technology Innovations

Stacie Leith Certificate Technology Innovations

Kelvin Powell, Jr. Certificate Technology Innovations

Dustin Richardson Certificate Technology Innovations

Barbara Sembrot Certificate Technology Innovations

Shawn Venable Certificate Technology Innovations

English

Chalita Atallah Plaque

Sunmit Chadha Plaque

Daniel Gonzalez Plaque

Shelley Greenberg Plaque

Daniel Grosberg Plaque

Aparna Kothary Plaque

Jacqueline Russell Plaque

Jennifer Twigg Plaque

Esther Adetunji Certificate

Oluwatoni Aluko Certificate

Rebecca Dreifuss Certificate

Hasina Jamal Certificate

Nisa Natrakul Certificate

Hafsa Siddiqi Certificate

Maxine Tang Certificate

Foreign Language

Shannon Bean Plaque

Jean Lo Plaque

Alena Naumova Plaque

Samantha Schultz Plaque

Wilfried Yepseu Plaque

Esther Adetunji Certificate

Anne Chlebowski Certificate

Jeremy Esperon Certificate

Syrena Johnson Certificate

Mandy Lethbridge Certificate

Daniel Perret Certificate

Nikitha Velpula Certificate

Internships

Christopher Chew Plaque

Kimberly Cunningham Plaque

Rydhwana Hossain Plaque

Joshua White Plaque

William Dahl Certificate

Yomaira Zamora Certificate

Mathematics

Sara Berberich Plaque

Jina Chung Plaque

Valerie Gatewood Plaque

Aparna Kothary Plaque

Prasad Kutty Plaque

Daniel Mendelsohn Plaque

Daniel Paek Plaque

Hilary Scherer Plaque

John Speares Plaque

Theresa Edwards Certificate

Fitzgerald Elliott Certificate

Jason Harper Certificate

Janghyun Kim Certificate

Elizabeth Koenig Certificate

Christopher Lesesne Certificate

Dennis Nguyen Certificate

Zhigang Pan Certificate

Maxine Tang Certificate

Medical Careers

Monique Anderson Plaque Medical Careers

Kristin Willoughby Plaque Medical Careers

Vandana Vangimalla Certificate Medical Careers

Music

Christian Bolton Plaque Instrumental Music

Christopher Carter Plaque Instrumental Music

James Curtice Plaque Instrumental Music

Anoop Thomas Plaque Instrumental Music

Craig Binder Certificate Music

Christina Coleman Certificate Music

Nicholas Gann Certificate Music

Steven Laycock Certificate Music

Daniel Perret Certificate Music

Jean-Jacques Point-Du-Jour Certificate Music

Daniel Ricci Certificate Music

Mark Taylor Certificate Music

Kristen Collins Plaque Vocal Music

Shelley Greenberg Plaque Vocal Music

Daniel Grosberg Plaque Vocal Music

Physical Education

Kenneth Baron Plaque

Stephen Jolles Plaque

David Oluwatimilehin Plaque

Lawrence Prempeh Plaque

Arthur Queen Plaque

Jeannette Smith Plaque

Science

Christopher Chew Plaque

Jina Chung Plaque

Erin Margolis Plaque

Daniel Mendelsohn Plaque

Alena Naumova Plaque

Daniel Paek Plaque

Carlita Phillip Plaque

Brian Smith Plaque

Leonard Goff Certificate

Jason Harper Certificate

Hasina Jamal Certificate

Christopher Lesesne Certificate

Cathy Lin Certificate

Brooke Meade Certificate

Kelly Nesseler Certificate

Sidney Wun Certificate

Social Studies

Joycee Awojoodu Plaque

Stephen Jolles Plaque

Diana Kim Plaque

Ifdaias Perez Plaque

Hilary Scherer Plaque

John Speares Plaque

Jay Templin Plaque

Caitlin Vandevander Plaque

Ayesha Adil Certificate

Tinashe Batia Certificate

Kyle Carson Certificate

Theresa Edwards Certificate

Sarah Grinberg Certificate

Cathy Lin Certificate

Nikitha Velpula Certificate

Rachel Whidden Certificate

Certificate of Meritorious Service

All students are required to volunteer 60 hours of their time in order to graduate. Currently, the Paint Branch Student Body has accumulated over 58,000 hours of service. The students we are honoring tonight have volunteered 260 hours or more of their time and will be receiving the Certificate of Meritorious Service. These students have volunteered time locally in childcare centers, schools, and hospitals. They have also volunteered time in other states and countries! Service has included everything from helping to improve the environment by picking up trash to traveling to third world countries working to bring solar power to communities!

These sixty students are truly outstanding, and deserve to be recognized for their service!

Monique Anderson
Krystal Au
Shelley Au
Joycee Awojoodu
Mahlet Ayalew
Joseph Bernstein
Arjoo Bhandari
Ryan Budd
Sunmit Chadha
Jina Chung
Jennifer Claus
Kristen Collins
Andre Cross
Austria Davis
MacKenlov Dorival
Quinn Douglas
Keshia Ellison-Olden
Desiree Francis
Dimple Gill
Shelley Greenberg
Daniel Grosberg
Rydhwana Hossain
Farhana Huq
Tania James
Joshua Kahn
Peter Kang
Aabda Khan
Stefanie King
Jilna Kothary
Jamie Lee
Christine Liang
Jean Lo
Erin Margolis
Justin Mein
Virdina Milfort
Susana Nava
Christina Newman
Tambetta Ojong
Vivian Oriaku
Kevin Park
Christine Pettit
Carlita Phillip
Emily Quinn
Jacqueline Russell
Hamzat Sani
Rebecca Serey
Kavita Sethi
Matthew Silva
John Speares
Christina Suh
Rebecca Thompson
Alyssa Thorsen
Anh Tran
Nghia Tran
Jennifer Twigg
Caitlin Vandevander
Taisha Warren
Joshua White
Connie Yeh

Scholarship Award Announcements

Paint Branch Principal's Leadership Award
Aparna Kothary

It's Academic Awards
Hamzat Sani
Jason Tse
Hasina Jamal

Future Educators of America Award
Seema Juneja
Cara Smith

Teachers in Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) Award
Scott Templin
Isha Gupta
Amir Khan
Alena Noumova
Christopher Hughes

Phil Campbell Award for Community Action & Racial Harmony
Massiel Cruz

Thomas Edison Awards for Excellence

Cosmetology Award
Stephanie Leith
Emergency Medical Services Award
Emily Quinn
Web Technology & Project Excellence
Austria Davis

Business Advisory Council for Excellence In Education Award
Ms. Rebecca Baber

Click here for a list of past winners

Paint Branch High School Hall of Fame Award
Mr. Jack McKeon
Click here for a list of past winners

Paint Branch Seniors Honored at Top Scholars Banquet
Click here to see pictures from the event

Paint Branch High School celebrated academic excellence by honoring the top 5% of the graduating class of 2003 at the first ever Top Scholars Dinner, which was held at Patuxent Greens Country Club on May 16th, 2003. Students were given plaques to commemorate their achievement and had the opportunity to select and invite to dinner the staff member at Paint Branch who was most influential in their high school career.

In her remarks, Ms. Dixon praised the students on their accomplishment. She also addressed the student's parents stating ". . . I want to say a few words to our parents. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! While Paint Branch has had an impact, your children are successful because of you. You will always be your child's most influential teacher because of the bond you share and the values you model every day. You have given your children the kind of strength that will enable them to do anything they set their mind to do. For all that you have given and will continue to give we salute you."

The students honored and the most influential staff members are listed below:

*Student*	*Most Influential Staff Member*
Chalita C. Atallah	Mrs. Ellen Brinsko
Sara M. Berberich	Ms. Kate Ulicny
Christopher M. Chew	Mr. David Zaleski
Jina Chung	Mrs. Julie Dean
Alex W. Hamidi	Ms. Jamie Paoloni
Shelley L. Greenberg	Ms. Kathy Pettigrew
Aparna Kothary	Mr. David Ritzer
Jilna Kothary	Ms. Dina Beatty
Prasad Kutty	Mr. Greg Cornnor
Jamie Lee	Mrs. Sandra Morse
Daniel R. Mendelsohn	Mrs. Nancy Hebdon
Alena D. Naumova	Mrs. Pamela Leffler
Daniel C. Paek	Ms. Terri Fromme
Ifaias Perez	Mr. Michael Hunt
Brian F. Smith	Mr. Andy Cottrell
John B. Speares	Mrs. Diane Speares
Jennifer M. Twigg	Mr. David Ritzer
Caitlin Q. Vandevander	Ms. Kathy Pettigrew

Paint Branch Student wins at the Maryland History Fair

Kholla Ahmad, a Paint Branch freshman and Gilder-Lehrman scholar was awarded 2nd place at the Maryland History Fair in the category of "Senior Individual Exhibits" for her project titled "Japanese - American Internment Camps."

Kholla Ahman will now advance to the National Competition in June at the University of Maryland! Awards at the national competition include a yearly scholarship of $4500.00 to University of Maryland!

Kholla Ahmad is a Gilder-Lehrman scholar in Bonnie Jones' Gilder-Lehrman class, and is an honor student in Bryan Walker's Honors United States History class. According to Ms. Jones, "I am so proud of her! This is quite an achievement for any student, but is truly exceptional in that Kholla is a freshman competing against seniors."

C-Span and Comcast Cable
Visit Paint Branch

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, Paint Branch hosted the C-Span School Bus, a mobile television studio. The visit was part of the Students and Leaders Program sponsored by Comcast Cable and C-Span, a program where 40 schools are visited by 40 various leaders of society over a period of 20 days.

Students were given the opportunity to tour the bus in the morning and learn about broadcast journalism and then participated in a live television broadcast later in the day. Students from the Television Production classes, National State and Local Government (NSL) classes, AP NSL class and Gilder Lehrman program all participated in the broadcast.

Joe Madison from WOL radio was the guest of the broadcast. He is a long time civil rights leader, television commentator, labor and corporate spokesman, columnist and lecturer. "He is an ordinary citizen of the world with an extraordinary commitment to the principles of human decency."

Click here for more information about the Comcast and C-Span Students and Leaders Program

Click here to view the broadcast

World War II Pictorial Exhibit at Paint Branch High School
April 9 - 11, 2003

A World War II Pictorial Exhibit of Walter and Eda Teague's was on display at Paint Branch High School from April 9 through April 11, 2003 in the Media Center. The photographs were taken on the island of Leyte in the Philippines in 1944.

Walter Teague was assigned as an administrator in the U.S. Army's 44th General Hospital in Burauen in 1944-45. Eda, his wife, was one of 92 nurses in the hospital. The exhibit contains a portion of the 1,500 photographs they took while stationed in the Philippines.

Walter and Eda Teague spoke to the U.S. History students about the history of the photographs as well as their experiences in WWII.

Paint Branch Students win in Montgomery County National History Day Competition

This past weekend, March 22-23, 2003, six Paint Branch students won in the Montgomery County National History Day Competition. The theme for this year's competition is "Rights and Responsibilities."

The students will be competing state wide on April 26, 2003 at Montgomery College in Rockville Maryland.

The following students won in the county wide competition for the National History Day projects:

Category: Paper
Student: Benjamin Granata, Freshman, Gilder Lehrman American History Scholar
Topic: Evan Thomas, a Colesville Quaker Dissenter in the Revolution
Teacher: Bonnie Jones

Category: Documentary
Students: Jonathan Ridguard and Sonali Moses, both Juniors, Modern World History Students
Topic: The Rights of the Prisoners of War
Teacher: Emma Melgarejo
This documentary included a media power point presentation.

Category: Exhibits
Student: Kholla Ahmad, Freshman, Gilder Lehrman American History Scholar
Topic: Japanese Internment
Teacher: Bonnie Jones

Category: Exhibits
Students: Sam Davies and Andres Alvarez, both Juniors, Modern World History Students
Topic: The Rights of the Hungry People
Teacher: Emma Melgarejo
This exhibit included a media power point presentation.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED COUNTY WIDE AND TO ALL THEIR TEACHERS.

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Departmental Awards for Outstanding Achievement

Paint Branch Seniors Honored at Top Scholars Banquet Click here to see pictures from the event

Paint Branch Student wins at the Maryland History Fair

C-Span and Comcast Cable Visit Paint Branch

World War II Pictorial Exhibit at Paint Branch High School April 9 - 11, 2003

Paint Branch Students win in Montgomery County National History Day Competition

Paint Branch Seniors Honored at Top Scholars Banquet
Click here to see pictures from the event

C-Span and Comcast Cable
Visit Paint Branch

World War II Pictorial Exhibit at Paint Branch High School
April 9 - 11, 2003