A large group of high school students and recent graduates has received recognition from Advanced Placement for their high scores on last spring's AP exams.
Four students who graduated in May--Jessie Baskauf, Chandler Floyd, Eric Rosenthal, and Neil Zheng--received the highest honor, National AP Scholar. This designation is "granted to students in the United States who receive an average score of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams."
The other levels of recogntion are:
AP Scholar: Granted to students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams. Zoe Bauer, Arch Beasley, Kathleen Campbell, Kate Carpenter, Elizabeth Anne Cooper, Youssef Doss, Hope Eidam, Sam Fisher, Nicholas Gregory, Marco Gutierrez, Christian Hahnemann, McKenna Harrington, Joanna Harwood, Caroline Hollahan, Lucy Horell, Arden Igleheart, Megan Kasselberg, Devin Kellett, Colin Kolodziej, Dev Mehrotra, Lilly Middleton, Joe Noser, Paul Reich, Jessica Schreiber, Jeremy Seloff, Blair Webber, Annie Weimerskirch, Anwen Wilkerson, and Sarah Young.
AP Scholar with Honor: Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Michael Becker, Elise Blackburn, Connor Crenshaw, Kela Hall-Wieckert, Emaun Irani, Will Johnston, Ben Kuhn, Mackenzie Myers, Kellon Patey, Simpson Tanner, Ashtan Towles, Will Weinstein.
AP Scholar with Distinction: Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Hannah Aaron, Jack Aylor, Jessie Baskauf, Hannah Bollen, Maurice Chiang, Esteban Chittester, Isabella Christianson Galina, Rebecca Clark, Douglas Corzine, Izzy Creavin, Emily Davis, Starina D'souza, Francesca Eluhu, Elena Escalas, Chandler Floyd, Lena Friedman, Robert Green, Dylan Groos, Jessica Hanks, Joshua Huang, Maggie Kidd, Nora Lee, Anya Li, Hop Mathews, Sam May, Kelly McHugh, Shaan Merchant, Alex Miller, Alden Neely, Eric Rosenthal, Arpan Sarkar, Thomas Shaw, Rebecca Sosman, Kate Stallings, Carson Thomas, Nishant Upender, Silas Wuerth, Alexandria Yu, Caroline Zhao, Neil Zheng.
Artclectic Patrons Party early-bird tickets $125 each and can be purchased here through Thursday, October 1. The price increases to $150 per person on Friday, October 2. For more than 30 years, Artclectic has been one of Nashville's premier juried art shows, welcoming nationally recognized artists and visitors from across the city to USN's Sperling Gym turned art gallery. The weekend features exceptional artwork, artist demonstrations, student experiences, family activities, and special events that celebrate creativity, with proceeds benefiting USN.
USN Evening Classes, our one-night classes that benefit our need-based scholarship endowment, were recently featured on the City Cast Nashville podcast. Visit usneveningclasses.org to view the fall catalog.
The Helen Meador Summer International Fellowship funded a summer of professional development in South America for Lower School Naturalist Carrie Riley. Through this profound experience, she said she plans to bring these lessons into her teaching, grounding her voice in wonder, joy, and a commitment to protecting the natural world, which she loves.
Tiger golfers have officially qualified for the region tournament, and our other teams are not far behind. Volleyball sits near the top of the district, finishing up regular season play next week with Senior Night. Girls soccer continues to hold first place in the district after another 9-0 win, and our cross country runners are chasing after some school records. To round it all out, our mountain bike team traveled to Oakfield to continue to improve on their times for the season. There’s plenty more where that came from- so be sure to come out to the River Campus, Sperling Gym, or out on the road to cheer on our Tigers before their seasons end.
Middle School volleyball and tennis teams are nearing the final games of their seasons, with the competition heating up while the Tigers play to determine their HVAC rankings. Cross country was finally able to race at the River Campus despite the heat, and our mountain biking team traveled to Oakfield, Tennessee, for a high-temperature race weekend.
The MTB team returned to the the twisty trails of tranquil Oakfield, TN on Sept 13th to take part in the second race of the season, as part of the 5-race series hosted by the NICA/TICL League.
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