Category Archives: Students
LHWHS Students Win Web Site Design Programming Competition
The School of Business and Technology at Webster University hosted their annual Programming Challenge on Saturday, April 21, 2012. The Web Site Design Programming Division included HTML and JavaScript programming. Students from area high schools competed on teams of two or three students for this three-hour competition designing web pages.
LMS Students Qualify for State MathCounts Competition
On Saturday February 18, 2012, Ladue Middle School took 10 Mathletes and one Alternate, in the 6th-8th grades, to the Regional MathCounts Competition held at Florissant Valley Community College. LMS participants were: Spencer Chen, Hans Chan, Jeffrey Wang, Alex Tan, Justin Chen, Stephanie Zhong, Olivia Long, Tom Liu, Albert Liu, Patrick Hwang, and Barath Palanisamy (Alt). Over 130 participants from schools all over the St. Louis region participated in the competition.
LHWHS Junior Wang Wins the Gold in Math
Ladue Horton Watkins High School Junior Victor Wang, representing the U.S.A. Team at the Romanian Master of Mathematics competition in Bucharest, won an individual gold award on March 3, 2012. The U.S.A. team finished fourth with Wang’s score being a significant contributor.
LHWHS Juniors Are “Just Sayin”
Ladue Horton Watkins High School Juniors, Samantha Weil and Samantha Shanker participated in the script writing, production and performance of an “I’m Just Sayin” feature on KSDK News Channel 5 aired on March 9, 2012. The piece was created in conjunction with students from Gateway Institute of Technology High School. The theme centers around the need for improvement in the coverage of and campaigning done by candidates for political office.
Congressional Debate District Tournament
Students from Ladue Horton Watkins High School joined their peers in the Saint Louis area to compete in the Congressional Debate District Tournament on Saturday, 25 February 2012. This experience was unique because the Eastern Missouri District holds their Congressional Debate District Tournament in the Capitol Building in Jefferson City, Missouri.
“I Speak for Others” Award Given to LHWHS Student
Jerome Gregory (junior, Ladue Horton Watkins High School) was honored at the Marquette Invitational (speech and debate tournament) with the I Speak for Others Award. The award honors a student who uses skills gained through speech and debate and uses them to positively impact his/her community.
Speech and Debate Team Wins Big!
The Talking Rams, speech and debate team at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, earned multiple trophies at their last regular season tournament of the 2011-2012 school year!
The final regular season tournament of the year was the Marquette Invitational. This tournament is one of the three biggest in Saint Louis and brings competition from every major area of Saint Louis as well as some schools from Illinois and Kansas.
LHWHS Courtney Jonas Wins “Poetry Out Loud” Competition
Courtney Jonas, a junior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, recently won the Poetry Out Loud competition against eight other regional finalists. Jonas will go on to the state competition in Jefferson City in March 2012.
