Category Archives: Extracurricular Activities
LHWHS Scholar Bowl Team Places Second in Nation
Competition Includes Both Public and Private High Schools
On May 25 and 26, 2013, Ladue Horton Watkins High School’s (LHWHS) Scholar Bowl Team (A) earned second place among 256 teams in a national high school quiz bowl amongst a leading pack of schools dominated by private, parochial and academic magnet schools. The next public high school is listed seventh – Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, and the next is in the eleventh position – Dorman High School in Roebuck, SC.
LMS Science Olympiad Team Places 22nd at National Competition
The Ladue Middle School Science Olympiad had a great showing at the National Science Olympiad Competition, held on May 18, 2013 in Fairborn, Ohio. The students competed against the top 60 teams from across the country. Ladue Middle School students placed in two events, Sounds of Music (3rd) and Write It Do It (5th). Overall the team earned 22nd place. We are very proud of the dedication and hard work of the following students:
Philip Adams
Luke Biernbaum (Sounds of Music)
Hans Chan (Write It Do It)
Justin Chen
Albert Liu (Write It Do It)
Annie Liu
Tom Liu
Wil Michael
Patrick Naughton
Seema Patil
Kate Prablek
Sahana Raju
Sasha Rice
Ezra Umen
Audrey Wang
Jeffrey Wang
Stephanie Zhong (Sounds of Music)
LHWHS Science Olympiad Team Fares Well in 2013 National Competition
The weekend of May 18-19, 2013, the Ladue Horton Watkins High School Science Olympiad Team traveled to Dayton Ohio to compete in the National Science Olympiad Tournament. Sixty teams from across the country, and a visiting team from Japan, competed in 23 events which included building a robot arm, building an elastic launched glider, astronomy, anatomy, a chemistry laboratory, a circuit laboratory, plus many more.
LHWHS Scholar Bowl Ranked #1 in Nation and Headed to National Competitions
The Ladue Horton Watkins High School Scholar Bowl team is currently ranked number one in the country and will be heading off to two national competitions. The first is in Atlanta on Memorial Day weekend (May 25-27, 2013.) The second is in Maryland from June 7-0, 2013.
LMS Students Win Blue Ribbon at St. Louis Science Fair
Abhay Cashikar, Ryan Cox and Emma Ross, all seventh-graders at Ladue Middle School, received a Blue Ribbon at the Academy of Science – St. Louis Science Fair for their project: “Injuries in Middle School Sports.”
2013 Senior Awards Recipients
On April 25, 2013, Ladue Horton Watkins High School honored many outstanding seniors at the annual Senior Awards Program. Of special note, Samantha Shanker was the recipient of the faculty’s Scholarship Leadership and Service Award and Jeet Das was the recipient of the Dads Club Scholarship. See the complete list of all Senior Award recipients.
DECA Students Qualify for International Conference
The following students competed in the DECA State Career Development Conference and qualified for the DECA International Career Development Conference:
LMS Duo Wins Composition Contest Three Years Running
On Thursday, April 9, 2013, Julie Tristan of KSDK’s Show Me St. Louis interviewed LMS students Ande Siegel and Menea Kefalov for winning first place in the Creating Original Music Project (COMP) for the third year in a row. The segment, featuring Ande and Menea singing their song “WAR,” appeared on Show Me St. Louis at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 11 on KSDK Channel 5.
