School Year End Means Lots to Do

bustles with tributes, events, and ceremonies as the year comes to a close.

The ACE Foundation Recognition Celebration, National Honor Society Induction, the Spring Choral Concert, Underclass and Senior Awards Night, FFA Awards Night, Scholarship Night, and the upcoming Spring Sports Banquet are just a few of the many events highlighting the success of individual students, activities, clubs and sports teams.

During the recent Academic Challenge for Excellence (ACE) Foundation Recognition Celebration, more than 600 people attended the ceremony and honored the multitude of middle school and high school scholastic groups. The ACE Foundation, which began in 2003, supports activities and groups, similar to a booster club.

According to the ACE Foundation website, it would "provide support to Trumbull High School students and teachers interested in going ‘above and beyond’ activities traditionally available in the classroom. This included … the We the People, Federal Challenge, and Math teams and the Eagle's Eye and Trillium publishing groups."

In addition to the above groups, the achievements of teams such as the middle school and high school Knowledge Masters, Odyssey of the Mind, and Mock Trial were highlighted, along with numerous others. Dan Neumann, a member of the Trumbull ACE Foundation Board of Directors, was delighted with the evening’s success. 

“With 670 students participating in 52 teams, groups, clubs in 37 programs this year, the ACE Board decided to take the risk of redesigning the celebration's format to shorten it while, at the same time, still providing the deserving students and advisors with a meaningful recognition experience," he said. "We feel very good about the overwhelmingly positive feedback we've received since this year's Recognition Celebration.

"We were very grateful for the town's civic leaders taking the time to attend to offer their congratulatory remarks but, even better, we were delighted to give advisors and students the opportunity to demonstrate their enthusiasm as they shared word of their groups' activities and triumphs. It was a marvelous and inspirational evening for everyone,” Neumann said.

In addition, many students were inducted to the National Honor Society during an evening ceremony in the THS auditorium. These hardworking students retain a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 and take an active role within the high school and throughout the community.

Senior members, invested last year, were on hand to welcome new inductees along with parents, friends, teachers and administrators.

New National Honor Society members include: Sneha Alaparthi, Danielle Almonacid, Chelsea Ancheta, Julia Antoniou, Lexus Artis, Sarah Baghai, Michael Barnett, Jenna Bellofiore, Lauren Boggs, Daniel Bond, Keith Bond, Jennifer Bont, Ryan Bowers, Johnathan Bui, Dalexi Carrillo, Michael Casey, Anurag Chinepalli, Caitlin Cole, Emma Connolly, Jasmine Cooper, Kate Craddock, Patrick Curtin, Quynh-Lan Dao, Stephanie DeFranco, Grace Donahue, Gina Dupnik, Joanna Ebersold, Emily Eilertsen, Jill Epstein, Angelica Ferri, Erik Flack, William Flaherty, Ryan Freeland, Suzanne French, Jennifer Friedman, Abigail Gibson, Brian Greco, Lauren Gregory, Rebecca Grinberg, John Grischuk, Jenna Gunsolley, Gunnar Hansen, Michelle Heyder, Daniel Hirshfield, Alexa Hiznay, Andrew Jeffery, Yuchen Jiang, Darienne Jones, Rebecca Kaiserman, Madeline Kenler, Devon Kimball, Prakriti Kumar, Kathleen LaBoa, Rachel Laffitte, Annie Lane, Tina Lapsia, Anna Larracuente, Jenny Lee,  Jeffrey Liskov, Samuel Maloney, Elana Marble, Dominique Martin, Elizabeth McCormack, Michael McGuigan, Francesca Michel, Sarina Moghadam, Brendan Moore, Rachael Munoz, Matthew Nakano, Jillian Noto,  Matthew O'Brien, Joseph Palamara, Diana Piccirillo, Natalie Probst, Erica Quinones, Meredith Ramsey, Mary Rose Rappa, Danielle Reardon, Andreas Rodriguez, Giovana Rodriguez, Melissa Rubin, Dana Saad, Justin Samuelson, Matthew Schneider, Benjamin Schoenleber, Silvia Sclafani, Stephen Scott, Maria Serna, Aarya Shenoi, Andrea Shulick, Alison Smith, Shyamsundar Subramanian, Robert Suriani, Cori Taylor, Sarah Tyler, Krista Veikos, Andrew Vojt, Victoria VonAncken, Stephanie Vu, Courtney Wettenstein, Brian Wilczynski, Melissa Yellen, and Alyssa Zabin. For a full list of end of the year events at Trumbull High School, go to THS website athttp://www.trumbullps.org/ths/index.htm.