VMEA Blue Ribbon School Award

A huge congratulations to Brett Dodson, Band Director, Marci Swift, Orchestra Director, and Kevin Sapp, Choir Director, for receiving the 2014-2015 Blue Ribbon School Award from the Virginia Music Educators Association.

The award recognizes schools throughout the Commonwealth who have superior performing ensembles. Superior performance is evidenced by the District Performance Assessment rating from each of the top performing groups of each ensemble course (band, orchestra, and chorus).

Please join us in congratulating our Music Dept. on a job well done!

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Kilmer Student Wins Scholastic Art Awards

Sharing a Moment

Each year a selected group of students participate in the Scholastic Art Awards.  The Scholastic Art Awards have been around for more than 90 years and they include alumni like Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Robert Redford and many more.  This year one of our very own from Kilmer won two awards at regionals.  Elaine Zeng took home the silver key in Drawing for “Without Fear” and she received the silver key in painting for “Sharing a Moment.”  Elaine’s artwork was on display during the month of February at the Ernst Center on the NVCC campus in Annandale.

Without Fear 

Kilmer Goes to the FPS State Bowl!

 

Huge Congratulations go out to Kilmer’s Future Problem Solving team for their honorable mention for their creative solution to enhancing human potential in the Virginia State Bowl in Norfolk this past weekend. Aaraj, Maurice, Timothy, SJ worked so hard for this achievement with the support of Kilmer’s FPS Coach Mary Kay Folk (Kilmer English Teacher) and their FPS mentors from TJHSS&T.

Way to go – we are so proud of all of you for this huge accomplishment!

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Kilmer Student invited to participate in USA Junior Mathematics Olympiad (USAJMO)

Seventh grade Geometry student David Chen has been invited to participate in the USAJMO.  Only 230 of the most promising young math students in the country are invited to participate based on their AMC10 and AIME results.  This process leads to 6 students being selected to represent the United States at the International Math Olympiad.  Thank you to Kilmer Assessment Coach Angela Stacy for managing the AIME testing.

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1st Place - DC Metro Area Rubik's Cube Challenge

On Tuesday, April 14 the Kilmer Rubik’s Cube Team won first place out of a field of 20 middle schools in The DC Metro Area Rubik’s Cube Challenge.  Our team of 8 students solved 25 cubes in 1 minute and 45 seconds.  Thank you to math teacher Lauren Stewart for her work with the club.

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Kilmer Science Olympiad Team has a successful run in States!

Congratulations to Kilmer's Science Olympiad team for their 3rd place in the Virginia State Science Olympiad Tournament after a 1st place victory in our region.

Complete State Tournament results can be found on the Virginia Science Olympiad site.

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Future Problem Solvers to Represent Kilmer at State Bowl

Kudos to Aaraj, SJ, Timothy, and Mossie -- they are going to represent Kilmer in Norfol at the Future Problem Solving of Virginia State Bowl on April 17. Congratulations to Kilmer's FPS Coach Mary Kay Folk and to all students involved!

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