Kilmer Students Need Your Vote!

The Brainy Bunch, Division 2 First Lego League Team,  is contesting for the FLL Global Innovation Award.  They are the VADC-FLL 1st place Grand Champions for 2011-2012 and have been invited to the World Invitational Tournament to represent VA-DC region.

Your vote and support will help them to reach their goals!

Voting Guidelines :
The voting will end on March 1, 2012 at 5:00pm.  You may only vote once per individual team invention in a 24 hour time period.  Please vote once daily for the next three days!

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Kilmer Math Counts Success!

The Kilmer Mathletes have had an amazing year! 10 individuals scored over 90 points in the AMC10 test. Each of the ten mathletes will receive AMC10 award certificates for their excellent work. Students to receive AMC10 award certificates include:

• Akshay Kumar
• Dhriti Vij
• Jake Cui
• Joseph Chen
• Kunal Shroff
• Kendy Li
• Kenneth Chen
• Kevin Lin
• Mrinal Save
• Ravi Kodali
• Virginia Sun
• Vishal Bhasin
• Youngchan Lee

Additionally, we have three students scored among the top 2.5% in the nation by scoring over 115.5 in the AMC10 contests. These three students will be invited to participate in the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME), which will take place on March 15, 2012. Students invited to take the AIME include:

• Virginia Sun
• Kevin Lin
• Ravi Kodali

Among the three, Virginia Sun and Kevin Lin also won the AMC10 distinguished honor roll certificates by scoring among the top 1% in the nation (with scores over 121.5).

We commend every one who participated in Math Counts and their coach, Mr. Sam Sun.

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Kilmer Crowns Spelling Bee Champion!

Congratulations to our Kilmer Spelling Bee champion, Coco Strasberg, who won the Kilmer Middle School 2012 Spelling Bee on Wednesday, February 22 by spelling the word harassment.

Coco will advance to the Regional Spelling Bee, which will take place on March 18th at Hayfield Secondary.  Also, congratulations to Kilmer’s 2nd place speller, Charlie Broder, and the 26 finalists who competed in yesterday’s school-wide Spelling Bee! Great job!

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Kilmer Students Attend Noblis Lecture

Eighth grade Kilmer students Aly Luckett, Jordan Ganley, Dhriti Vij, Ryan Gottwald, Andy Zhao and Arthur Tisseront attended a lecture at Kilmer Middle School's partner, Noblis, in Falls Church by Dr. John Moore, a professor from the MIT Media Lab in Boston.  His thought-provoking lecture gave 40 students from Kilmer, Thomas Jefferson and Bishop O'Connell as well members of NOBLIS, the Governor of Maine and other notable figures from the Military, a look into the future of how medical care may be delivered differently in the future, and specifically how the doctor/patient relationship is poised for change in the next decade.  

Kilmer students were, in fact, officially recognized and applauded by the host at Noblis who stated that "we have students from our partnership school, Kilmer Middle School, here today: Please stand up! I understand that these students were a part of the Virginia State National Science Olympiad Team!  Let's give them a round of applause!"

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Fairfax Science Olympiad Invitational

Congratulations to all 45 students who participated in the Fairfax Science Olympiad Invitational:

Nicole Shumaker, Sandy Ng, Peter Rohrer, Raymond Lee,Victoria Yang, Shreya Bhatia,Teja Vayuvegula, Krishna Vemulapalli, Aly Luckett, Katrina White, Jordan Ganley, Andy Zhao, Francis Chen, Kevin Shen, Michael Ning, Hayun Chong, Thea Prevalsky, Keerthi Puvvada, Nakul Dar, Ryan Gottwald, Jake Cui, Sophia Wu, Jay Swarup, Akshat Kumar, Akshay Kumar, Quianna Dang, Sieun Lee, Joyce Tian, Kunal Shroff, Nikhil Sakhamuri, Ravi Kodali, Pallavi Bhave, Kiersten Paul, Coco Strassberg, Kevin Lin, Kendy Li, Jodie Lee, Ellison Kang, Anna Park, John Han, Abby McShane, Olivia Marcantonio, Katheryn Barnhart, Siri Doddi, and Shweta Watwe.

Congratulations to the Kilmer Teams for placing 4th, 6th, and 7th overall!!!  with 26 competing teams.
Kilmer students received medals for the following events:        

• 1st place: Mystery Architecture(Green), Water Quality(Green), Mission Possible(Green), Write It Do It(Yellow)        
• 2nd place: Metric Mastery(Yellow)   
• 3rd place: Anatomy(Red), Dynamic Planet(Yellow), Metric Mastery(Red) 
• 4th place: Disease Detectives(Green), Anatomy(Green), Mousetrap Vehicle(Red)
• 5th place: Meteorology(Yellow), Awesome Aquifers(Yellow), Microbe Mission(Yellow), Water Quality(Yellow), Storm The Castle(Yellow)          
• 6th place: Road Scholar(Green), Meteorology(Green), Rocks & Minerals(Green)        

 Thank you to all of the students for their team work and commitment. Congratulations on great results!  

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Kilmer Student Work Featured on E-Luminate Web Site

The student work created by four current eighth graders at Kilmer (the students were in 7th grade when they researched and put together the project) is featured on the E-Luminate (formerly called Books of Hope) web site as a sample book.

According to the E-Luminate website, the organization is "a 501c3 nonprofit service-learning program that engages U.S. schools at all grade levels in creating nonfiction electronic educational materials (in the form of PowerPoints, PDFs, Word documents, videos, audio, etc.) for some of the world's most vulnerable children."

The assignment, currently in progress in the classrooms of two of our 7th grade teachers, creates an authentic learning experience for our students as they create educational material that will be used in Uganda and Sierra Leon.

The project on display, titled Main Events of World War II, can be viewed under the RESOURCES tab of the E-Luminate web site. Select SAMPLE BOOKS and scroll to Advanced Resources.

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