Former Kilmer Student Nominated for Hollywood Music in Media Award

Former Kilmer student Rachel Brett cut her debut CD in 2011 and was nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award in the Pop Category for her original song "Liar."

While she did not win, the nomination is a huge honor. We send her our congratulations!


Find her web site at www.rachelbrettmusic.com

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District 12 Honors Orchestra

On Monday, November 12, 35 Kilmer students auditioned for the District 12 Honors Orchestra. The students listed below were accepted (out of the 525 that auditioned!) into this prestigious group and will be performing the first weekend on January. Please join us in congratulating them and the Kilmer Orchestra Director, Marci Swift, on this incredible accomplishment.

BASS
Leah Smith – 4th chair

CELLO
Hayun Chong – 3rd chair
Ellison Kang – 14th chair

VIOLA
Brian Anderson – 1st chair
Sieun Lee – 3rd chair Jordyn Park – 9th chair
Devyn Lee – 12th chair
Andrew Zhang – 16th chair

VIOLIN
Yonna Kim – Rank 6 – Violin 2 / 2nd chair
Hannah Yu – Rank 15 – Violin 1 / 11th chair
Grant Li – Rank 16 – Violin 1 / 12th chair
Kathleen Kim – Rank 17 – Violin 1 /13th chair
Joanne Lee – Rank 18 – Violin 1 / 14th chair
Dahway Lim – Rank 24 – Violin 1 / 20th chair
Melody Chiang – Rank 29 – Violin 2 / 7th chair
Sam Safadi – Rank 30 – Violin 2 / 8th chair
Timmy Chan – Rank 31 – Violin 2 / 9th chair
Joo Eun Kang – Rank 29 – Violin 2 / 17th chair

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Current and Former Kilmer Students Involved in American Youth Percussion Ensemble

The strength of Kilmer Middle School's music program is shown in the involvement of a number of current and former Kilmer students with the American Youth  Percussion Ensemble. This ensemble traveled to Indianapolis in March to perform as part of the Music For All Festival (full article in Vivace!, the American Philharmonic Orchestras' newsletter, issue 47, number 6, titled "Percussion Ensemble Performs at National Festival" ).

Kilmer alumnae involved in this performance were:
Stephen Creighton
Cliff Crawford
Grant Hoechst
Gwen Jeong

Current Kilmer students who are part of the American Youth Percussion Ensemble are Patrick Brinza and Derek Kartalian. This Percussion Ensemble is described by Kilmer Band Director Brett Dodson as "arguably the highest quality of its type in the nation."

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Kilmer Students Achieve WAY Above State on AMC 8

Over the past four years, Kilmer students have been over represented as compared students state-wide on the AMC 8, an annual math exam for eighth graders sponsored by The Mathematics Association of America.

Congratulations to our amazing mathematics faculty for these incredible results and to all Kilmer students past and present on their achievements on these tests.

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18 Former Kilmer Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

18 former Kilmer students were named National Merit Semifinalists for 2013. This is a testament to their own hard work and to the teaching and support of their current and former teachers.

Madison HS: Katherine Fowler, Jeremy Park

Marshall HS: Annmarie Brinza, Sarah Chapin, Isabel Gross, Nicholas Kemp

TJHSST: Allison Chou, Michael Cooper, David Gao, Shohini Ghosh, Clara Guo, David Guo, Benjamin Hsu, Seon-Yong Lee, Eric Lin, Ian McConnell, Brandon Pang, Seung Young Park

Our heartfelt congratulations to all of these students!

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Awesome Year-End Cumulative Success for Kilmer in WordMasters Challenge!

Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge, and coached by Barbara Appling, the school's seventh graders placed first in the nation in the year-end cumulative standings among 294 school teams participating at this grade level and in this division. At the same time, the school's eighth graders placed third in the nation among 302 competing teams.

Four of the school's students won highest honors for year-long individual achievement as well: Seventh graders Melody Chiang and Khoi Tran both earned perfect scores in all three of the year's meets and placed among the 7 highest-ranked seventh graders in the entire country in the year-end standings. Eighth grader Dhriti Vij was one of only two eighth graders in the country to earn perfect scores all year long, while his teammate Kunal Shroff placed among the 14 highest-ranked eighth graders.

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Brainy Bunch First Lego League Robotics Team Places 2nd in World Invitational!

The Brainy Bunch FLL Robotics Team, after attending 4 days of the World Invitational First Lego League Robotics Tournament in Florida, came in 2nd Place out of 59 teams in the Research category!  This means the judges were particularly impressed with their innovative solution to a real-world problem (milk contamination).  Their Terahertz device for detecting milk contamination and their subsequent pending patent really impressed the judges.   They also came in 2nd place overall during the first ever held Robot Derby (fastest robot out of the starting line).  What made this win special is how the kids rallied behind their French Alliance partners at the tournament and together they came in 1st and 2nd place!  Their team work and spirit was exceptional.


Congratulations to team members Aly Luckett, Andy Zhao, Dhriti Vij, Ryan Gottwald, Arthur Tisseront, Jordan Ganley and their coaches!


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