Congratulations

North South Foundation Spelling Bee
Congratulation to IWA 3rd grade student, Joel Varghese, for winning 2nd place in the North South Foundation Regional Spelling Bee (Juniors).

Magnificat Spelling Competition
On Saturday, March 24th, eight girls from I.W.A. competed in the Magnificat Spelling Competition against sixteen other Catholic grade schools.  It began with the written round where Hannah Caroscio, Hannah Hill, Michaela Thomas, Emily Caroscio, Christine DeSantis, Lindsey Horejs, Calli Sua, and Tina Zola had to spell difficult words such as “ambiguous”, “discrepancy” and “exaggeration”.   The girls were chosen to compete in the oral rounds based on their written scores.  The oral rounds consisted of three divisions; Merit, Excellence and Championship, with the Championship round being the highest.   

   Calli Sua competed against eight other girls and took third place in the Merit division.  She spelled words like macaroni, mispronounce, & admissible.  Hannah Hill & Lindsey Horejs made it into the Excellence Division.  Once there, they had to compete against eight other contenders from various schools.  They both spelled difficult words such as loveliness, illustration and prairie.  Hannah Hill took first place after spelling quartet and referred.   The girls are to be commended for all their hard work.   Their outstanding representation of IWA through the support and encouragement of their teammates and competitors, in a respectful way, made us proud!   Way to go, girls!     

Boys’ Spelling Cub
Grades 4 & 5 Boys’ Spelling Cub participated in the Third Annual IWA Spelling Bee on Friday, April 27, 2012.  The spellers studied approximately 2,377 of the most commonly misspelled words in the American English language.   

 The following participants took part in the Spelling Bee:  Lukas Bewley, Danny Brennan, Adam Caroscio, Thomas Deucher, Emmett Galla, Matt Kall, Danny Kimnach, Thomas Malloy, Nick Marsick, Alex Ortiz, Dev Patel, Varun Ravichandran, Will Shepard, Dominic Stavoli, and David Ryan.  Emmett Galla placed 3rd and received the 3rd place trophy.  Alex Ortiz took 2nd and was awarded the 2nd place trophy.  Matthew Kall won 1st place and was presented with the 1st place trophy.   All of the other spellers received a participation ribbon.       
The IWA Men’s Spelling Team & Mrs. Hearst organized & sponsored the Bee.  Gary Montgomary served as pronouncer, Ashwin Veeramani & Andras Juhasz served as judges, & Alex Davessar served as time keeper.      Congratulations to each of the boys who took part.  They did an outstanding job!  Both the IWA Men’s Spelling Team and Mrs. Hearst are extremely proud of the overall performance of the Boys’ Spelling Club.  We look forward to this event next year!

OMTA Buckeye Piano Competition

Alice Wu participated in the OMTA Buckeye Piano Competition in the Middle East District on April 22 and received an Honorable Mention (Third Place) at the Junior High Level.   Congratulations on your achievement!

IWA 2012 OMEA Contest Ratings


 Congratulations to our 7th and 8th grade musicians who participated in the Ohio Music Education Association Jr. High Solo and Ensemble Contest at Cuyahoga Community College West on Saturday, April 21. Our students played 5 solos and in 3 small groups for a judge along with students from 30 area schools and received 6 Superior and 2 Excellent ratings.
Congratulations to
 Aleks Andrich - Excellent rating for string choir.

Conor Bush - Superior rating for cello solo, Superior rating for string quartet and Excellent rating for string choir.

Lisa Criscione - Superior rating for viola solo, Excellent rating for viola duet and Excellent rating for string choir.
 
Kristen Deering - Superior rating for bass solo and Excellent rating for string choir.

Will Deucher - Excellent rating for string choir.

 Nicholas Griffiths - Excellent rating for string choir

Erica Fatica - Superior rating for violin solo, Superior rating for string quartet and Excellent rating for string choir.

 Isabelle Hizon - Superior rating for string quartet and Excellent rating for string choir.

Greta Noeth - Superior rating for viola solo, Excellent rating for viola duet, Superior rating for string quartet and Excellent rating for string choir.

Katherine Pafford - Excellent rating for string choir.