Villa Maria Academy's Lia Ritchie is Main Line Student of the Week - January 24, 2021

 Villa Maria Academy's Lia Ritchie is Main Line Student of the Week - January 24, 2021

 

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  A senior at Villa Maria Academy, Lia Ritchie is the president of Tech Club and is a member of the school’s Music Ministry’s leadership team. She is also the graphic designer for the school’s newspaper and is on the layout staff for Festival. Ritchie is a member of the National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, and Quill and Scroll Honor Society. She freelances art outside of school and has been commissioned for logos and custom emotes over the Internet. She created the cover for Festival last year; won first place in an art contest for the company Platinum Plumbing designing their company logo; made the Playbill covers for Villa Maria’s Theatrical Production and Design class for four years as well as the designs for the school’s Reindeer Games event and freshman class Disney trip t-shirt. Ritchie has received both academic and charism scholarships for four years at Villa Maria, and has attained distinguished academic honors freshman through junior years. She also has received multiple awards in art, French, math, history, and physics at Villa Maria. Ritchie recently decided to attend Middle Tennessee State University, and plans to major in Aerospace to become a professional pilot.

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