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Abangma, Yaya O Abdelwhab, Hind Acheampong, Valerie S * Adams, Sara * Ahmad, Sobia Ahmad, Tanzeel M Akamune, Joycelyn I * Akinnola, Ifeolu A Allen, Madison K Aluko, Mosopefoluwa E Amanuel, Medhane T Ambroise, Marthe A Amenabar, Edwin A Awojoodu, Olusola J Aylay, Elenor Barbagallo, Taylor G Barela, Melinda R * Belina, Detti H Bishop, Cory A * Bose, Sanchita Brady, William C * Brown, Tyler M Buvawala, Vivien M Calhoun, Briana N Camara, Saffie S Chakroborty, Soumik Chen, Jeremy M Chen, Jessica L Cho, Eunice H * Chung, Judith D Connolly, Erin E Conrad, Chelsey J Dang, Christina N Delgado, Xochilt N Dement, Paige M Dively, Angela M Do, Magdalene Q Dohvoma, Lydia P * Dominah, Gifty A Drameh, Aji M Duah, Xavier Edge, Kelsey A Esquig, Teddy Jane D Fitta, Meron A Giron, Noemi B Glatt, Samuel B Goldberg, Barrett L * Grady, Rebecca B Granny, Olivia Haje, Dylan A Han, Edward S * Hasan, Syed M * Hauprich, Katrina L * Heralal, Sangeeta Herrfurth, Mattias G Heuber, Allison * Hollis, Rachel E Hussein, Hamda A Johnson, Melissa L Johny, Angeline Jones, Courtney E * Joseph, Sebastian M Joshi, Rohit Kalsi, Amy Keane, Jeffrey B Khan, Sabrina Lee, Tiana R Lewis, Cherisse * Lively, Brett H Lopes, Niloricard A Lubin, George-Ann Madden, Anna F Malca-Chavez, Gabriela A Matsuda, Motonari * McClain, Rebecca D McGonnigal, Aaron McMahon, Rachel E Measday, Alexander H Medina, Joshua M Mensah, Joey E Miller, Mariah A Mohamed, Hayatt Moses, Ryan K Munanka, Corazon R Myint, Sundi K Newman, Shayna R Ngako, Patrick E * Ngenge, Kelly A * Ngo, My T Nguyen, Brenda Nguyen, David M * Nguyen, Jennifer T Nguyen, Tony T Nnamani, Amaka C Nwanna, Chinomso T Ortiz, Elelbin A * Ortiz, Maria * Parkhurst, Alyssa M Pham, Cherry Pham, Victoria H Pinnock, Nykolaus A Portillo, Cesia S Puri, Divya C Rahman, Ameera T * Rehwoldt, Miles C Rhoads, Grace E Robinson, Emmanuel Rollakanti, Suman S Sabia, Stephen H Saldanha, Thiago H Savoy, Brandyce E * Scanga, Emily C Schmedding, Anna K Schneider, William M Serra, Katelyn N Seto, Daren J Shaukat, Henna J Singh, Harleen K Stewart, Victoria E Sulieman, Saleh * Tesfai, Ariam Tesfaye, Bezait Thanki, Neha S Thomas, Jannel S * Tizabi, Daniela R * Tsao, Tracy * Tse, Jillian Udoh, Otobong I Umanzor-Villat, Rubidia N Valencia, Angeline T * Werner, Samantha R Willacy, Tiffany Wilson, Tory Wright, John L Yee, Alexander K * Yitagesu, Abigia W Yun, Melody G Yutuc, Katherine * Zemen, Rahel |
Abbadi, Soad H Abraha, Rosa G Adebayo, Rofiat A Aghguiguian, Ani S Akede, Elizabeth O Akula, Sarah A Aniyikaiye, Opeoluwa B Arah, Olisa Ashu, Enaka B Aslam, Sulaiman K Azubuike, Chizoba Bagio, Jheinifer Balogun, Mayowa Banson, Ian M * Barnes, Carol J Battle, Courtney T Bii, Iscar C Blanchard, Katie N Buabuchachart, Alan Burriss, Danielle M Butler, Michelle A Calderon, Luis A * Canubas, Lorenz D Carey, Cathleen L Chaiyarat, Phimchanok Chane, Eden Chhabra, Arjun S Christopher, Garland R Chu, Melody P Clem, Caitlin Cohen, Kathryn M Collignon, Taylor Dawit, Nighisti Dematatis, Julia V Denny, Abigail Djampouop, Sonia N Duffy, Dakota N Durai, Priyanka Dzierzanowski, Elizabeth A Edelberg, Brandon W * Edinborough, Kevin A Espinoza, Valeria K Etchu, Eleanor M Farace, Andrea L Fean, Samantha T Ferguson, Michelle P * Fernandes, Matthew Flores, Tiana V * Ford, Megan E Frimpong, Ama B Ganesan, Sidharth Gomes, Yves G * Grant-Broadus, Rachel J Gulian, Mamikon A Gyimah, Evans Hall, Kathleen N Hamilton, Lauren Han, James T Harrington, Thomas A Heiss, Rachel E * Ho, Patrick * Horstkamp, Katlyn R Huynh, Alfred C Itana, Hawi I Jackson, Alexander M * Jacob, Salena M Jacobs, Brian H Ji, Chu-Qiao S Kapur, Arun Kapuscinski, Michelle Kashfipour, Safoura Katta, Ramesh K Kettell, Chloe M Kim, Kyungwan Kim, Michelle B Kind, Amanda E * Kunz, Michael C Lay, Amanda T Le, Monica Le, Richard A * Lee, Yae Chan Leiva, Dania Y Lowe, Nathaniel D Lucan, Chloe E Lukas, Amanda K Maeng, Sonny Martinez-Bonil, Laura D McGrath, Casey J * McGrew, Kathleen A Missah, Ellen Mistry, Shruti Mueller, Alexander J * Muppala, Reshma Ngo, Jessica M Nguyen, David Njafuh, Cynthia N Nnamani, Chidera Obeid, Priscilla R Okonofua, Sandra Okunji, Chidiebere O Oni, Oluwatimilehin Orwenyo, Terri N Paris, Francess E Park, James J Patel, Darshan G Patel, Parth Phifer, Larissa E Porter, Joel E * Rao, Sneha * Rethnaswamy, Perry J Rirksopa, Benjamin Robles, Eric A Saeed, Fathiyya Sartor, Eduardo Sayre, Christina L * Schneider, Kathryn E * Schultz, Emma A Schultz, Todd A Shah, Parth * Sharpe, Katherine M * Sharpe, Natalie L Shittabey, Abifoluwa Siebenberg, Allisson E Silverman, Jordan Smythe, Seynique A Soniregun, Mofoluwaso Strassberger, James A Straub, Elaina D Sumner, Eric B Suri, Manpreet * Swaminathan, Anjna K Syed, Amad H * Sylla, Mariame Tadesse, Kirubel B Tagoe, Ivan P Tezera, Amen Tinne, Melvis N Tobon, Karen E Toledo, Amanda P Tolentino, Hector R Tolentino, Ricardo Toliver, Jordan A * Tran, Alan T * Tran, Megan T Ukaegbu, Oyinyechi A Ukegbu, Jennifer O * Vandeyar, Javier Vidaurre, Grecia Y Vodela, Meghana S Weiser, Gary Wilkins, Patrick M Winley, Deena R Wolde, Mikias G Wright, Brett L Wright, Timothy R Yaunan, Sanjiv S Yee, Daniel C Yeh, Christopher Yorklush, Charles E |
Abbas, Mariya * Abel, Brent S Abera, Tsebaot K Adewusi, Olutoba A Adkins, Jared M * Ahmad, Maria Ahmed, Asif U Amadiobi, Eziaku Andoseh, Bemi J Ayodele, Temidayo A Bandon-Bibum, Chrysantus Bean, Kevin D Bechtoldt, Alison M Bediako, Yaw A * Bernstein, Karen M Biloa, Stacymurie D Boateng-Botwe, Rhoda * Bouvier-Lyons, Maya A Bradshaw, Lauren K * Brimmer, Charles B Burns, Cody Campbell, Valerie J Cardenas, Daniel M Carr, Amy M Chang, Sarah Chi, Naomi M Chopde, Rakesh N * Chopra, Natasha Chowdhury, Saurav R * Chung, Scott * Dalal, Sonia P Dang, Anhquan Dayrit, Nique Jelen S * Devkota, Mandisha Divakarla, Sneha M Do, Andy Do, Uyen N Dustin, Danielle Duval, Korine A Eakin, Brian C Edwards, James K Eyow, Liban A Fadeyi, Temi M Faustin, Sabrina Friedman, Steven J Goodie, Keondra E Graham, Nigel A Gregoire, Daniel L Grinberg, Julia Gudenius, Brandon M Herath, Thilini L Herrera, Fernando D Heuber, Stephanie Hoang, Minh T Hodgson, Janelle S Howard, Redmond J Isaac, Kishore D * Jacob, Christina M Jenifer, Regina * Jewett, Xavier C Jones, Ashanti Kals, Amy Kang, Ho Young Kelley, Shamus Khan, Shoaib M * Kind, Patrick J Kwon, Paul H Laudwein, Evelyn B Le, Dongha Lee, John Lively, Sarah L Logan, Shawn M Lopez, Walter O Magnus, Julianna I Malleck, Adam T Maniwang, Stephanie V Marapaka, Abhinay Marchica, Louise P * Mekonnen, Michael Menta, Karthikeya * Michnewich, Matthew J Moores, Colleen Morgan, Matthew D Nguyen, Amanda L Nguyen, Vu Nibber, Avneet Nibber, Jesspaul S Njosa, Nora A Noyes, Michael D Ocran, Cindy Okorafor, Tavie Okunji, Uzoamaka E Outlaw, Olivia R Pabari, Manshi G Pae, David J Paik, Danielle H Palilingan, Sheryl Patel, Beenaben G Perret, Sarah E Pham, Michael V Pradhan, Ujina Prakash, Saurabh * Rubio, Cindy Sabade, Natasha S Sabir, Mohammed M Samuel, Jamal A Sanford, Ayana Sani, Abdullaziz Sen, Ashley Seto, Ashley Shah, Khushbu B Shaikh, Mazin Sheth, Shraddha N Shinholser, Logan E Singh, Gurashish Siripanichgon, Panit Smith, David R Snyder, Colleen G Sonty, Adam C Statham, Arielle C Stone, Kayla C * Swaminathan, Rajna K Sylla, Fatoumata Y Taylor, Tiffany M Tcheimegni, Joel F Tesfai, Naomi Tesfaye, Blain Tesfaye, Yeesalem Tran, Jessica A Tran, Michael T Truong, Nguyen T * Tse, Bradley C * Valdez-Lopez, Luis E Vargas, Jesse J * Walters, Andrew R * Werner, Jessica N Wistar, Cass C Wray, Sarah L * Wyche, Malcolm K |
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Nineteen Paint Branch Seniors Honored at
Top Scholars Recognition Dinner
Paint Branch High School will be celebrating academic excellence by honoring nineteen seniors who represent the top 5% of the graduating class of 2008. The Top Scholars Dinner will be held at The Oak Room, Sandy Spring, Maryland on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 6:00 pm. The honored students are being recognized for their academic excellence over four years at Paint Branch and will be given plaques to commemorate their achievement.
The students being honored are:
Angela Aloi
Katherine Atallah
Nathalie Baptiste
Sarah Blanchard
Shanu Eapen
Christina Heng
Kyle MacNamara
Claudia Ngo
Chinyere Okunji
Linh Pham
Chelsea Preister
Rachel Rosario
Sehar Sabir
Nicholas Schmedding
Evan Smith
Sanata Sy-Sahande
Michelle Tabisz
Noelle Tom-Wigfield
Xuemin Zhang
Each student was asked to pick their most influential staff member at Paint Branch and those staff members will also be honored. The staff members the students chose are:
Dr. Mary Ellen Antiochos
Ms. Dina Beatty
Ms. Christine Blakely
Ms. Lisa Blighton
Mr. Brian Eichenlaub
Ms. Faye Johnson
Mr. Richard Lee
Ms. Pamela Leffler
Mr. Stuart Miller
Mr. Colin Reinhard
Ms. Mary Simons
Mr. Jeff Sullivan
Mr. Bryan Walker
Mr. Brian Woodward
Mr. David Zalesk
Paint Branch Senior Wins
National Principal’s
Leadership Award Scholarship
Burtonsville, MD – Sehar Sabir, a Paint Branch High School senior has been named the National Finalist of the Principal’s Leadership Award Scholarship, co-sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and Herff Jones, Inc. One hundred national PLA winners were chosen from among more than 4,500 applications to receive a $1000.00 college scholarship. From the 100 winners, nine recipients were selected as Regional Winners and will receive an additional $500.00 scholarship. Finally, one student was selected from the nine Regional Winners as the National Finalist and will receive an additional $7,000.00 scholarship, making the total scholarship award Ms. Sabir has won $8,500.00.
Ms. Jeanette Dixon, Principal at Paint Branch High School announced the award. “We are very proud of Sehar and of all her accomplishments here at Paint Branch,” stated Ms. Dixon.
Participating high school principals from across the country could nominate one senior high student to compete in this year’s program. Winners were selected on the basis of their leadership skills, participation in service organizations and clubs; achievements in the arts and sciences; employment experience; and academic record. They also were required to write an essay.
“Students nominated for the PLA scholarship not only demonstrate academic excellence, but also extraordinary performance in leadership and service to their schools and communities – traits that are more important now than ever before,” said Rocco Marano, director of student activities, NASSP. “I am always impressed by the outstanding achievements of students like Ms. Sabir, and NASSP is proud to recognize her.”
In recognizing leadership in cocurricular activities as well as academic performance, the PLA scholarship recognized the importance of a well-rounded education. Cocurricular activities are an essential part of the school curriculum.
While at Paint Branch High School, Ms. Sabir has been the President of the Student Government Association, the Vice President of the National Honor Society, and the Opinions Editor of the Mainstream, the Paint Branch school newspaper. Ms. Sabir has also been a Senate Page in the 2008 session of the Maryland General Assembly, and participated in the Washington Post’s Ninth Annual High School Writing Seminar and Scholarship Program this spring. Ms. Sabir was also selected to receive the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship and is a Finalist for a National Honor Society (NHS™) scholarship.
This fall, Ms. Sabir plans to attend the University of Maryland, College Park, Honors Program and double major in journalism and government and politics.
58 Paint Branch Students
Win Awards at the Montgomery County Media Festival
Fifty-eight Paint Branch High School students won a number of awards at the annual Montgomery County Media Festival on April 17, 2008 held at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Silver Spring. The students’ works were part of over 500 entries by 1400 students from 68 schools in Montgomery County.
Animation:
Jonathon Bartee, Nathaniel Butler, Lorenz Canubas, Douglas Coates, Darius Davis, Reyna Dunlap, Alexis Fearing, Phillip Gayle, Barrett Goldberg, Andre Gregory, Dylan Haje, Harifah Hendrickson, Xavier Jewett, Sebastian Joseph, Kyle Krespan, William Lee, Alex Measday, Nneka Payne, Jez Siarez, Jordan Stephens, Emma Williams, and Alex Yee – First Place – Stop Motion Entertaining (Paint Branch High School Summer Institute Animation 2007)
Tristan Alleyne, Stacy Biloa, Sarah Blanchard, Sarah Chang, Abike (Bebe) Dedo, Bich-tram Ha, Rachel Heiss, Jose-Lorenzo Jimenez, Corbin Jones, John Kashfi, Michael Kunz, Dongha Le, Marc Lowe, Michael Mekonnen, Matias Mesfin, Duyen Nguyen, Ruby Park, Sierra Reynolds, Marcela Rodriguez, Cathey Siu, Anjna Swaminathan, Alan Tran, and Grecia Vidaurre – Second Place – Stop Motion Procedural (Hello, my name is . . .)
Digital Art and Design:
Jose Lorenzo Jimenez – Second Place, Commercial Design
Cindy Rubio – Third Place, Digital Art – “painterly”
Titi Huynh – Third Place, Digital Photography
Live Action:
Andy Zepp, Jaimie Metellus, Sarah Koolhof, KC Lanigan, Julian Lantry, Jared Adkins, Jazz Narang – First Place, Entertaining (Halloween Special)
Noelee Wishart – Third Place, Informational (AP Classes)
News Programs:
Sarah Koolhof, Andy Zepp, Jared Adkins, Sandra Williams, Jaimie Metellus – Third Place, News Magazine (Scroogekins)
Photography:
Jason Baez – Second Place, Photo Journalism – Monochrome (Home)
A bigger, better Paint
Branch High could cost $100M by Danny Jacobs | Staff Writer Plans for a new Paint Branch High School are
still in the design stages, but a new building should be ready for the first
day of classes in the fall of 2010, Montgomery County Public School
officials told members of the school’s PTSA last week. ‘‘We hope it will be the jewel of Burtonsville,”
Principal Jeanette Dixon said. ‘‘We’ll have everything we need to deliver
our outstanding educational programs.” The new building would have 93 classrooms,
including 12 science labs, a 900-seat auditorium and a greenhouse. The
entire campus, scheduled to be finished in 2011, would have a new
football⁄soccer stadium, a track located around a practice field and 400-500
parking spaces. A third access road would be added near the southwest corner
of the campus for buses, and fields available for use by the whole community
would be placed near Old Columbia Pike. However, the plan would leave Paint Branch
without its current stadium for as many as three years, as it is converted
into practice fields. Jim Henderson, a project manager with Moseley
Architects, the Harrisonburg, Va.,-based firm chosen by the county for the
project, showed parents updated drawings of the building’s interior,
exterior and surroundings Jan. 16. Moseley has previously helped design
Parkland Middle School in Aspen Hill and A. Mario Loiederman Middle School
in Wheaton. Henderson was accompanied by Dennis Ross, a senior facilities
designer, and Deborah Szyfer, a senior planner, both with MCPS. The two dozen parents in attendance had questions
about some of the details of the plan, but overall were pleased. ‘‘I think
it’s going to work,” said Tamara Stoner, whose daughter is a freshman at
Paint Branch. Carlos Hunter, whose son is also a freshman,
agreed. ‘‘It’s more space for more students [and] I like the idea of
community involvement,” he said. The plan was chosen last year by a committee of
Paint Branch staff, students and PTSA members and county and state education
officials. Community input was also taken into
consideration. ‘‘This has been the most inclusive process for a project of
its size,” Ross said. In fact, concerns about student safety if
renovations were done in the existing building or if construction were done
adjacent to the existing building, the other two modernization options
considered, made the committee’s choice clear. ‘‘That was fundamental in our
decision to build a new building,” Henderson said. Originally built in 1967,
Paint Branch High School added a wing on its northeast side in 1986. Dixon, the committee’s chairwoman, said the new
building would be on higher ground than the current one, meaning passersby
will have to look up instead of down as they do at the existing building.
‘‘It will be beautiful and inspire those that learn there,” she said of the
new building. ‘‘We wanted to be a marker in Burtonsville.” ‘‘It’s a much more positive presence at the top
of the hill,” added Don Hauprich, the PTSA president. One topic not discussed at the meeting was the
cost of the new building. In a feasibility study presented to MCPS in
September, Moseley estimated the total cost of the plan at $97 million, but
Henderson said that was only an early projection. The project was approved by the County Council in
May 2006 as part of the 2007-2012 Capital Improvements Program, Szyfer said,
but that it may be amended when the 2009-2014 Capital Improvements Program
is approved later this year. Budgeting and construction deadlines are out of
Hauprich’s hands, but he is glad the vision of the Paint Branch community
has been kept in mind for the new school. ‘‘Everyone is focused on what’s
good for the community and the school, and that’s a blessing,” he said.
Massing
Study Massing Study
First Floor Plan
Third Floor
Plan
Early plans for new three-story school add educational amenities,
expand capacity to 2,400 students
Gazette, January 23, 2007
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Under the proposed, preliminary plan, the new three-story building, which
could cost nearly $100 million, would be constructed south of the existing
building on land MCPS bought from Montgomery County Park and Planning in
September. Students would remain in the current building while the new one
is being constructed. When completed, the three-story building would be 25
percent larger than the current building and have a maximum capacity of
2,400 students, up from 1,600.
Site Plan
View of Front of Building from Old Columbia Pike
View of Rear of Building from South East Corner
Rt. 29 on Right and Old Columbia Pike on Left
Second Floor
Plan
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