Main Line Student of the Week

Villa Maria Academy's Jillian Williamson is Main Line Student of the Week - December 30, 2018 To read the article on Jillian Williamson click here Jillian Williamson, a senior, holds multiple leadership roles at Villa Maria, including vice president of Tri-M International Music Honors Society; president of the Handbell Choir; first chair cello and cello section leader in orchestra; chief of photography for the school newspaper, The Villa Voice; and a member of the leadership team for Music Ministry on campus. She also participates in the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, the String Ensemble, the National Honors Society, the Quill & Scroll Writing Honors Society and the yearbook writing staff. She has been a Girl Scout for 12 years and is currently serving as a girl delegate for the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, a position which is a part of the Girl Governance Program and helps connect Girl Scouts to the council.

Malvern Prep's Kyle Leonard is Main Line Student of the Week - December 23, 2018 To read the article on Kyle Leonard click here Kyle Leonard, a senior at Malvern Prep, is a member of the National Honor Society, the Malvern Theater Society, the Adelphia Society, God Band and Liturgical Music and Friar’s Lantern, the school newspaper. He also runs track (winter and spring) for Malvern Prep, was a member of the school’s Diversity Awareness Club and participated in a service trip to South Africa.

Sacred Heart's Grace Magnotta is Main Line Student of the Week - December 16, 2018 To read the article on Grace Magnotta click here Grace Magnotta is treasurer of her senior class, a Mathlete and a founding member of Courageous Conversations, a dialogue training workshop at Sacred Heart Academy. In the summer of 2017, she was chosen to be one of Sacred Heart’s two student representatives to attend the Network Crossing Frontiers, an international Sacred Heart Network conference sponsored by the Religious of the Sacred Heart. The purpose of the student track was to expose students from other Sacred Heart Network schools to dialogue training for controversial issues and have them take the skills back to their school. That summer, she also spent a week of service immersion in Chicago on juvenile justice. She is a captain of the Sacred Heart Academy varsity field hockey team, which made it to the PIAA state quarterfinals this fall for the first time since 2010, and ha...

Agnes Irwin's Saguna Malhotra is Main Line Student of the Week - December 9, 2018 To read the article on Saguna Malhotra click here Malhotra, a straight A student and National Merit semifinalist, is co-head of both Agnes Irwin’s ECO (Environmental) Board and the Council for the Advancement of Girls, which is the student arm of AIS’ Center for the Advancement of Girls. She’s the director of communications for the school robotics team, which regularly competes at regional competitions. She also participates in AIS’s student-run fashion magazine Skirt, STEM club and world affairs council. For the last three summers, she has had an internship at the UPenn Science summer research lab; after ninth grade, she helped with the clinical studies of how light can cause migraines and possible blindness. Last summer, she also interned with GenHERation, a company that works to forge a network for high school and college girls in the corporate world.

Villa Maria Academy's A'sja Abron is Main Line Student of the Week - December 2, 2018 To read the article on A'sja Abron click here A’sja Abron is president of the senior class at Villa Maria; co-president of the diversity and inclusion committee; co-chief of props at the Malvern Theatre Society; senior section editor of the school yearbook, Reflections; and a member of the VMA SpeakUp! leadership team. A thrower for the Hurricanes’ track and field team, she finished first at the AACA Championships last spring and is a manager for the VMA basketball team. Other clubs/activities that she is involved in are peer ministry, altar serving, National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Quill and Scroll Writing Honor Society and the Robotics Club. Outside of Villa, she is a volunteer for HOBY (Hugh O'Brian Youth) Leadership Organization. She earned the President’s Volunteer Service Award-Gold for accumulating 261 service hours from June...

Valley Forge Military Academy's Kevin Errasquin-Flandes is Main Line Student of the Week - November 22, 2018 To read the article on Kevin Errasquin-Flandes click here The VFMA senior is a multiple Gold Star Honor Roll winner (general academic average of at least 93 percent, with no subject less than 80 percent) and a recipient of the Head of School Medal, which is awarded to a cadet who has earned Gold Star Honor Roll for all four marking periods during a school year. He is a two-time recipient of the Harvey Medal for a cadet who excels in the area of social studies, a recipient of the Harvey Medal for Science and a recipient of the McCloskey Medal, presented to those cadets who have attained the highest disciplinary reputation in their respective class. He finished second in the annual British Officers’ Club of Philadelphia Essay Contest, is president of the school’s Community Service Club and won VFMA’s Community Service Club Award, presented to those members of...