Posts

Showing posts from March, 2021

Sacred Heart Academy's Caroline Fleming is Main Line Student of the Week - March 28, 2021

Image
 Sacred Heart Academy's Caroline Fleming is Main Line Student of the Week - March 28, 2021   To read the article on Caroline Fleming click here     A junior at Sacred Heart Academy, Caroline Fleming is a three-year representative of her school’s Community Service Corps, and helps plan service events. Fleming is a member of Sacred Heart’s Social Justice Book Club, which recently read Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, and subsequently she wrote letters to elected officials to end the death penalty. She is a student leader and facilitator of Courageous Conversations, Sacred Heart’s dialogue program. Fleming also is involved in the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, a dialogue program among the six other Sacred Heart schools. She takes multiple advanced placement courses at Sacred Heart Academy, mentors ninth-graders in writing and study skills, and plays field hockey and lacrosse for Sacred Heart.

Valley Forge Military Academy's Qingyuan Meng is Main Line Student of the Week - March 21, 2021

Image
 Valley Forge Military Academy's Qingyuan Meng is Main Line Student of the Week - March 21, 2021   To read the article on Qingyuan Meng click here     A senior at Valley Forge Military Academy, Qingyuan Meng has attended this school for the past three years, coming here from China (his family still lives in China). At Valley Forge Military Academy, Meng has attained the Gold Star Honor Roll in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and was the recipient of the Dean of the Academy Medal in 2020.

Villa Maria Academy's Anna Heppelmann is Main Line Student of the Week - March 14, 2021

Image
 Villa Maria Academy's Anna Heppelmann is Main Line Student of the Week - March 14, 2021   To read the article on Anna Heppelmann click here    A senior at Villa Maria Academy, Anna Heppelmann is one of the Editor-in-Chiefs of the student newspaper Villa Voice, which has won the Columbia Gold Award; and is one of the Editor-in-Chiefs of Festival, Villa’s literary magazine, which also has won the Columbia Gold Award. She is co-president of PA Math League; is a Commended Student in the National Merit Corporation’s annual scholarship competition; and in her sophomore year won an award at Villa in Excellence in Advanced Mathematics. Outside of Villa Maria, she has worked with the charitable arm of Get Well Network, which focuses on making patients’ experiences better in hospitals. She also has worked as a volunteer for Hi5 soccer as a “buddy” to kids with special needs; at Villanova’s Special Olympics Fall Festival; and at the Wayne Art Center, where she was a teacher’s ass

Episcopal Academy's Hollis du Pont is Main Line Student of the Week - March 7, 2021

Image
 Episcopal Academy's Hollis du Pont is Main Line Student of the Week - March 7, 2021   To read the article on Hollis du Pont click here   A senior at EA, Hollis du Pont was recently selected as a National Merit Finalist and as a candidate for the U.S. Presidential Scholars program. She is co-president of the Classics Club and recipient of the University of Chicago Book Award. Hollis du Pont’s interest in archiving has led her to the “By the People” project at The Library of Congress where she has been transcribing documents. She has been a docent and social media intern at the Andalusia Historic House and Garden as well as a Junior Fellow with the Delaware Historical Society. She also recently started an archiving project to chronicle this challenging time for EA students and others. Hollis du Pont is the editor of the yearbook, The Tabula, and a member of the student leadership group - Esse Quam Videri Society. She is a member of the varsity tennis team and a coxswain

Friends' Central's Kayla Foy is Main Line Student of the Week - February 28, 2021

Image
 Friends' Central's Kayla Foy is Main Line Student of the Week - February 28, 2021   To read the article on Kayla Foy click here     A senior at Friends’ Central School, Kayla Foy has been a volunteer with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, an organization that has helped test more than 15,000 people for COVID-19. As a volunteer, she has gathered information such as race, gender, ethnicity and medical conditions of those tested for COVID-19. Because of her work as a frontline healthcare worker, Kayla Foy was one of the first people in the region to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. She took a short pause in volunteering with BDCC last September to focus on her advanced Friends’ Central classes, ACT preparation, and college admission (and has received scholarships to two colleges recently.) Kayla Foy will resume volunteering on a full-time basis for her senior project in early spring. She also is one of the leaders of the Black Student Forum at Friends’ Central, and sh