Spotlight On Ladue Schools

Duke Tip Talent Search Identifies 38 LMS Seventh Graders

Ladue Schools — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:41:46 +0000

Duke TIP’s 7th Grade Talent Search identifies students across the United States who have scored at or above the 95th percentile on a grade-level achievement test. As part of the program, these students take above-level college-entrance exams (ACT or SAT) to learn more about their abilities.  On March 11, 2013 the exam results were provided for Ladue Middle School seventh-graders.

The following students received State Recognition for their results. These students are qualified to be recognized at a state-wide award ceremony. Those with an asterisk before their name also qualified for Grand Recognition, and qualify for recognition at the national level.

Dixon Bezzant, Jared Block, Ryan Cox, Levi Dyson, Sarah Eisenman, Opeoluwa Falako, *Vinicius Fernandes, Alessandra Francone, Avery Fredman, Macey Goldstein, Kiyan Haider, Allison Harpole, Lily Hauptman, *Albert Liu, Annie Liu, Charles Loitman, Lauren Martin, Erin McKenzie, Glen Morgenstern, Ian Pallares, Benjamin Phung, Fredrik Rhenman, Emma Ross, Yan Rybak, Sophia Sachs, Anthony Schuster, Violet Shelley-Pettinelli, Leah Snidman, Adam Soldwish Zoole, Matthew Tonn, Grace Vidlak, Brooke Waller, *Audrey Wang, *Julia Wang, Thomas Xiong, Kexin Xu, Eric Yang, Arron Zheng.

LMS PE Department Finishes Year of Recognitions with Exemplary Program Award

Ladue Schools — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:36:50 +0000

On Thursday, May 23, 2013, the Physical Education department at Ladue Middle School learned they had been designated as an Exemplary Physical Education Program by the Missouri Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (MOAHPERD.) The middle school will be officially recognized at the MOAHPERD convention in the fall.

Earlier this year, the department was also recognized as a Character Fitness School by CHARACTERplus and the St. Louis Rams, and is also the winner of the Play 60 Challenge co-sponsored by the NFL and the American Heart Association.

Members of the LMS Physical Education department: Chad Anderson, Kevin Clawson, Cord Dockery, Stephanie O’Neal, Jason Stendebeck, Jason Theodosiou, Vanessa Wojtow and Tricia Wideman (Teacher Assistant.)

LMS Science Olympiad Team Places 22nd at National Competition

Ladue Schools — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:18 +0000

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

Ladue Schools — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:28:49 +0000

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.

The team placed in the top 10 in four of the events, receiving medals in Disease Detectives (Max Schindler and Haohang Xu) and Materials Science (Enze Chen and Runpeng Liu). We are so proud of the following students for their dedication and contributions to the team:

Chloe An
Enze Chen
Collin Christner
Emily Chu
Jialin Ding
Runpeng Liu
Yang Liu
Allison Loynd
Michael Prablek
Rasika Sant
Max Schindler
Kisan Thakkar
Haohang Xu
Ben Zhang
Eric Zhu
Toby Zhu

LHWHS Scholar Bowl Ranked #1 in Nation and Headed to National Competitions

Ladue Schools — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:40:40 +0000

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.

2013 Graduates End Year with “Senior Service Day”

Ladue Schools — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:36:48 +0000

Before finishing out the school year, these seniors gave back to their community by donating a day of volunteering to Habitat for Humanity and Our Lady’s Inn.

LHWHS Freshman Puyo Named St. Louis Post-Dispatch Athlete of the Week

Ladue Schools — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:30:16 +0000

As reported on stlhighschoolsports.com on May 8, 2013…

A freshman forward, Puyo has emerged as an offensive threat and was a vital cog in a recent seven-game winning streak. In her last five games, Puyo has seven goals, including three game-winners and two assists. She scored the winning goal and had two assists in a 3-0 win against Lutheran North and added two goals in a 4-0 win over Ritenour. She also had the lone goal in a 1-0 win over Whitfield and scored all three goals in a 3-1 victory over Clayton, which clinched the Suburban East championship for Ladue. Puyo has a team-high 16 goals to go along with eight assists.

LMS Students Win Blue Ribbon at St. Louis Science Fair

Ladue Schools — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:23:29 +0000

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.”

LHWHS Seniors Kaplan and Ewald Named All-Stars

Ladue Schools — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:58 +0000

Seniors Lex Kaplan and Rob Ewald have both been selected to play under the lights of Busch Stadium on June 14, 2013 in the PNC Baseball All-Star Game.

LHWHS Smith Wins District Golf Championship

Ladue Schools — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:48:37 +0000

Ladue Horton Watkins High School Senior Seth Smith shot a one-over-par 73 to take home first place by three strokes. Read the full article from the April 29, 2013 St. Louis Post-Dispatch…