Four Hathaway Brown students spent May 14-19 in Los Angeles, where they competed in the Intel ISEF (International Science & Engineering Fair), the largest pre-college science fair in the world. While they were there, Isha Lele '18 was awarded the Third Place Grand Award of $1,000 in the category of Materials Science, joining the ranks of only 15 HB students enrolled in the school's Science Research & Engineering Program in the past 19 years to win a Grand Award. Additionally, Isha and Ananya Kalahasti '17 were given special awards from the Naval Science Awards Program.

Students attending earned the right to compete at Intel ISEF 2017 by winning a top prize at a local, regional, state, or national science fair. Each year, approximately 1,800 high school students from more than 75 countries, regions, and territories are awarded the opportunity to showcase their independent research and compete for on average $4 million in prizes. The participating HB students won all expenses-paid trips to compete at ISEF as Finalists by advancing through the Hathaway Brown 19h Annual Poster Session judging in March:

Catherine Areklett, '17: Surface versus Bulk Chiral Orientation Effects in Liquid Crystals with Dr. Charles Rosenblatt at Case Western Reserve University

Ananya Kalahasti, '17: Presence of Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes with Asymptomatic Malaria with Dr. Brian Grimberg at Case Western Reserve University

Isha Lele, '18: Investigating the Design of Nanoparticles to Target Difficult-to-Reach Tumor Sites with Dr. Efstathios Karathanasis at Case Western Reserve University

Maya Razmi, '18: Heteromultivalent Approaches to Clot-targeted Nanomedicine: Combination Targeting of Platelets and Fibrin with Dr. Anirban Sen Gupta at Case Western Reserve University

HB has been honored to award spots to ISEF each year based on the quantity and excellence of the science and engineering research being performed in partnership with Cleveland institutions like Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, NASA Glenn Research Center, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

HBBH Newsletter- Week 3

Camp Notes:

Please stay in your cars during pick-up time and a camp faculty member will come to your car.  If you need to get out of your car, please park legally do not disrupt the traffic flow.  

Also, please make sure you send your child to camp with a lunch, if not purchasing one from the school, and a water bottle labeled with your child’s name.  

Movement:  This week, we focused on the difference between active and static moves.  First, campers learned the difference between the two kinds of movements and then practiced different active and static movements.  The youngest campers had fun hearing a clue describing an animal and once they figured out what the animal was, they had to move like that animal.  There were some great moo-vements!

Lanyard:  We focused on mastering the box and barrel stitches this week.  Some girls used their skills and creativity to work on more complicated lanyards, such as the Corkscrew, DNA, and many more!

Duckland:  Campers listened to the story Q is for Duck.  This is anything but your traditional alphabet book!  Campers had to guess why each letter was associated with a topic.  Then, campers made their own ducks out of the letter “D”.  

Fairymaids:  The fairy/mermaids went on a search and were rewarded with their very own special mermaid pets.  The mermaids also left them magical mermaid dust.  They enjoyed their mermaid magic all day!

Escapades:   The sixth, seventh, and eighth graders spent the day canoeing at Camp High.  Despite some encounters with nature’s scarier creatures, everyone enjoyed the two mile canoe ride.  Even the cooler weather didn’t dampen the fun!

Quick Bites:  This week’s treat was a traditional camp favorite: edible cookie dough!  The recipe has all the ingredients of typical, yummy cookie dough, but without the eggs.  This makes is delicious and safe to eat.

Challenge:  The challenge this week was the Wild Woozy.  Older campers have been doing challenges high up in the trees.  So far, they have completed the Burma Bridge and the Two Line.  This week, they moved on to the Cat Walk, which is a log suspended between two trees about 35 feet off the ground.  Wow!

Improv: Campers took a break from Improv week, but look forward to more theatrical fun in the weeks to come!

Fun and Games:  This week’s games were Captain’s Quarters and the classic Scream and Run.  Campers could be heard all over the campus while playing the latter game!  

Table Top Challenges:  In Table Top Challenges, campers have access to various games, including cards, puzzles, math games, collaborative games, and board games.  The focus this week was being able to work together during a game and trying games for the first time.

Discovery: Campers this week had a lot of sweet fun in Discovery.  First, they made vanilla cupcake lip gloss, which smelled (and tasted) just like a vanilla cupcake!  Then, made S’mores.  No, not over a campfire, but in the oven!  While the S’mores were cooking, campers made their own ankle bracelets.  

Ink: Young campers had so much fun this week practicing the letters of the alphabet.  Then, they had to feed different letters to the letter monster!  And the monster was very hungry!

Minute to Win it: This week, campers engaged in team-building activities that required ingenuity and creativity.  They were put in groups and had to build the highest tower they could using square blocks.  Campers had a blast trying to use their knowledge of strong structures to make their tower higher than the group next to them!

Be-You-Tiful:  Words and actions are powerful.  Often we talk about this power when it hurts someone else’s feelings.  However, this week, campers learned how to use this power in a positive way.  Campers decorated post-it notes with kind words and pictures and placed them on random campers’ lockers.  Hearing the surprise and excitement on campers throughout the week when they found these fun notes on their locker!

Razzle Dazzle:  Campers made a sweet treat for their lips this week.  They made vanilla cupcake lip gloss using beeswax, Vaseline, vanilla, honey, and sprinkles.  Yum!

Art:  Campers harnessed their creativity this week in art by making collages.  Some of the materials they had access to were tissue paper and clothes hanger clips.  Watching the wide variety of collages that emerged was exciting and inspiring!

Maker Space:  In the Maker Space this week, campers used old tiles, CDs, and Sharpies to create personalized tile decorations.  Campers made everything from their names to mandalas.  Such creativity!  

Kindergarten:  This week, the kindergartners had fun working on their lip sync, going to Fairymaids and finding the mermaid treasure chests, and making creative paper plate art!

The three-year olds (Koala Bears):  This week was all about the Fourth of July.  We read books about our independence and made two sets of fireworks.  One used red and blue paint, and the second used glue and food coloring.  Our culminating activity was making festive popsicles!

The four-year olds (Giraffes and Elephants): We celebrated and learned about the Fourth of July!  We made beautiful firework art work using straws and our special treat was making firework cookies.  What a festive week!

HBBH Newsletter- Week 4

Camp Notes:

Please stay in your cars during pick-up time and a camp faculty member will come to your car.  If you need to get out of your car, please park legally do not disrupt the traffic flow.  

Also, please make sure you send your child to camp with a lunch, if not purchasing one from the school, and a water bottle labeled with your child’s name.  

Movement:  Campers played a version of musical chairs this week, but without chairs!  Instead of chairs, campers had to dance on different colored dots until the music stopped.  Also, campers learned some basic dance moves and played a version of Simon Says to practice their newly developed ballet skills.  

Lanyard:  We focused on mastering the box and barrel stitches this week.  Some girls used their skills and creativity to work on more complicated lanyards, such as the Corkscrew, DNA, and many more!  One of the most popular stitches this week was the Chinese Staircase.  

Duckland:  With the holiday this week, there was no Duckland.  Next week will be another quacktastic week!

Fairymaids:  The campers learned what kind of magical fairy powers they had this week.  The fairies left the campers different colored fairy dust, which indicated what their powers are.  Some of the young fairies have water, fire, or love powers!  So magical.  

Escapades:   With the holiday this week, there was no Escapades.  Looking forward to next week!

Quick Bites: Mamma mia!  Campers had a blast making their own miniature pizzas this week.  It was so much fun getting to personalize their pizzas and have their very own!

Challenge: Campers continue to challenge themselves and test their teamwork skills during this class.  Some of the campers pushed themselves and climbed some of the most challenging elements of the ropes course.  Way to go!

Improv: Campers took a break from Improv week, but look forward to more theatrical fun in the weeks to come!

Fun and Games:  Tag is a classic game that has been played for centuries.  This week, campers took this classic game and played several different variations of tag.  Additionally, campers played Popcorn.  No, this game does not involve real popcorn, but a game with keeping balls up in the air.  

Table Top Challenges:  In Table Top Challenges, campers have access to various games, including cards, puzzles, math games, collaborative games, and board games.  The focus this week was being able to work together during a game and trying games for the first time.

Discovery: The campers participated in three different activities this week during Discovery.  First, they made floam, which is a version of slime with special textured beads incorporated in the slime to give it a different feel.  Next, they prepared for the Fourth of July by making festive red, white and blue Rice Krispie treats.  Finally, they made Shrinky Dinks.  They started by making a full-size design and after baking them, they shrunk to a miniature size, which they could then put on a necklace or bracelet or key chain.

Ink: In Ink this week there were several different fun activities.  One was a fun way to practice the different letters of the alphabet.  Campers used the classic game BINGO to practice their letters. To practice different parts of speech and vocabulary, some campers made funny Madlibs.

Minute to Win it: This week’s challenge was all about food and creativity.  Campers participated in the cookie challenge.  Campers started the challenge by placing a cookie on their head and then they had to get the cookie in their mouth.  The challenging part was that they couldn’t use their hands to get it into their mouth!  It looked goofy but was fun and delicious.

Be-You-Tiful:  Campers focused on their inner beauty this week and participated in a guided meditation session.  They learned how to harness their positive energy and focus on what makes them happy.

Razzle Dazzle:  Slime is very popular these days!  Campers made a different version of slime this week called Floam.  It uses a basic slime recipe and incorporates special beads that give it a unique feel and texture.  

Art:  Although some campers missed art this week because of the holiday, others continued to harness their creativity in art class, using a variety of supplies to create gorgeous works of art!

Maker Space:  Campers practiced upcycling at its finest this week!  They used old t-shirts and creativity to turn them into fashionable bags.  What a great use for an old t-shirt!

Kindergarten: To celebrate the Fourth of July, the campers made their own fireworks out of glue and glitter.  They also repurposed paper plates and turned them into amazing elephant masks.  One of the campers’ favorite activities this week was learning what kind of fairy magic they had during Fairymaids.  What a great week!

The three-year olds (Koala Bears):  The Koala Bears had a great week!  Some of the activities they did were making their very own fish, making and enjoying delicious “mud” pies, and reading the book The Bear That Shares.

The four-year olds (Giraffes and Elephants): This week, campers had a blast participating in lots of different activities.  Some of the highlights from this week were making their own visors and a yummy batch of trail mix.  Of course, campers took any chance they could to go in the sprinklers or on the playground!

HBBH Newsletter- Week 5

Camp Notes:

Please stay in your cars during pick-up time and a camp faculty member will come to your car.  If you need to get out of your car, please park legally do not disrupt the traffic flow.  

Attention parents/guardians of Early Childhood campers!  Tomorrow, please join us to celebrate the EC kids with a picnic.  Bring a lunch and a blanket for a picnic by the fountain.  Please enter through the Courtland entrance and then proceed to the fountain.  We hope to see you at 11:15am tomorrow, July 13th!

Movement: This week, campers created movements using plastic bags.  Some campers used the bag like a volleyball, others threw the bag and then danced underneath it as it swirled back to the ground, while others used the bag as a decoration. The youngest campers listened to a book featuring paintings of ballerinas by Degas.  They then emulated the moves of the ballerinas from the book.

Lanyard:  Campers continue to practice and perfect a variety of lanyard stitches.  This week, many campers moved on to the intermediate stitches, such as the Corkscrew, DNA, and Quad, while others tried some of the advanced stitches, like the Braided Ladder.

Duckland:  This week, the campers heard the story, I Wish That I Had Duck Feet, and then transformed themselves into ducks!  They made the transformation by making duck crowns and their very own duck feet.  

Fairymaids:  Campers transformed their legs into beautiful mermaid legs!  They painted their legs after learning about the different kinds of scales mermaids have and accented their scales with different colors, and of course, magical fairy dust.  

Escapades:   It was all about sweets this week in Escapades!  Campers made can cakes and then decorated their cakes with frosting in hand-crafted shades.  Afterward, campers walked over to Ben and Jerry’s and enjoyed some delicious ice cream to complete their sugar coma!

Quick Bites: A classic camp favorite was made in Quick Bites this week!  Campers used tortillas, cinnamon, and sugar to make their own cinnamon crisps.  Easy and delicious!

Challenge: Campers continue to push their own limits in Challenge.  Older campers continue to try their hand at climbing and have found a new sense of strength (both physical and mental) they didn’t know they had!

Improv: Campers created their own plays this week.  However, they used spinners to dictate who the character was, the setting, and the problem the character faced.  Once the spinners told them what their play was about, then they used their creativity to make the play.  

Fun and Games:  Hoop, there it is!  This week was all about hula hoops.  Campers used hula hoops in a variety of ways for multiple different games and challenges.  

Table Top Challenges:  In Table Top Challenges, campers have access to various games, including cards, puzzles, math games, collaborative games, and board games.  The focus this week was being able to work together during a game and trying games for the first time.

Discovery: It was a magic-themed Discovery class this week!  Campers created a toy that floated a ping pong ball and really looked like a magic trick.  Then, campers tested the difference between slime made with liquid starch and slime made with Borax to determine which was better.  The consensus was that liquid starch created the best slime!  The highlight, however, was making Harry Potter’s favorite drink: Butter Beer.  The campers found it so much fun and to make and even more delicious to drink!

Ink: Campers worked on their letter identification and recognition through fishing.  But they didn’t catch any fish.  Instead, they went fishing for different letters!  What a fun way to practice their knowledge of the letters of the alphabet.  Some groups also created some beautiful name art.

Minute to Win it: This week, some campers continued the cookie challenge from last week, where they had to get a cookie from their head to their mouth without the use of their hands.  Other campers worked on brain boggling challenges.  These included riddles and logic puzzles.  

Be-You-Tiful:  Nailed it! This week was all about nails.  Campers used clear nail polish and eye shadow to create their own custom-designed nail polish shades.  After making their nail polish, campers shared their special shades with each other and had a fun nail painting party!

Razzle Dazzle:  This week was all about toys.  Campers created two different toys: one that magically floated a ping pong ball and one that was a rocket out of straws.

Art:  Campers used tissue paper this week to make beautiful paintings.  By peeling off the tissue paper and leaving the color behind, they could then use the color to paint with.  This is called bleeding tissue paper.  It sounds creepy but looks beautiful!

Maker Space:  Campers continued working on the t-shirt bags they created last week.  Some of the campers finished making the bags, while others added pizzazz to their bags with decorations.  Look for these great and useful bags coming home!

Kindergarten: What a fun week!  The kindergarten campers had a blast in art making beautiful creations out of tissue paper, transforming themselves into ducks during Duckland, and working on their lip sync performance.  Another highlight this week was watching the magic show.  What a great week!

The three-year olds (Koala Bears):  Have you ever eaten mud?  Well, this week, the campers did.  Not real mud, of course, but mud pies!  This was a great way to top off our exploration of bugs this week, which we will continue next week.  We read great bug stories and learned about lots of different kinds of bugs.  Next week, we will go bug hunting to find bugs to observe!

The four-year olds (Giraffes and Elephants): Campers had a great week!  Our special craft this week was making beautiful butterflies out of beads.  They almost looked like they could just fly away!  The tasty treat this week was ice cream sandwiches, but without the ice cream!  Campers used with graham crackers and whip cream to create this yummy, special treat.

HBBH Newsletter- Week 6

Camp Notes:

Thank you for a wonderful summer at camp!  You are all invited to attend the annual Lip Sync, which will occur this Thursday, July 20th at 2pm outside HB by the fountain and turf field.  If you are unable to make it, no worries!  I’m sure your campers would love to give you a private performance.

Movement:  Campers continued to move during the last week of Movement.  Many campers took this opportunity to practice their lip sync performance.  

Lanyard:  For the last week of camp, there were many campers who worked on more advanced lanyard stitches.  Some favorites this week included the Twist, Corkscrew, and Tornado.  

Duckland:  The last week of Duckland was a celebration of all games “ducky”.  Some of the games included the classic, Duck, Duck, Goose, a duck toss, and a version of sharks and minnows.  What a ducky summer it has been!

Fairymaids:  The final week of camp means the Mermaid and Fairy Ball.  What a special celebration of their hard work this summer finding and learning about fairy magic!

Escapades:  The final escapade this summer was a trip to the Solon Freeway Lanes for a bowling party.  What a fun way to end camp!

Quick Bites: Campers made a sweet treat this week.  They created a unique concoction of chocolate quesadillas.  They were a huge hit!

Challenge: What amazing growth these campers went through over the past six weeks!  For the final week of challenge, campers continued to work on their skills and many campers practiced climbing.  What a great summer!

Improv: Campers created their own mini plays, deriving inspiration from their favorite fairytales.  While the story was already known, their interpretation and presentation of it was new and unique!

Fun and Games:  Campers took two classic yard games and played different variations of them: dodgeball and kickball.  Ask your camper to teach you their favorite version of the games!

Table Top Challenges:  In Table Top Challenges, campers have access to various games, including cards, puzzles, math games, collaborative games, and board games.  The focus this week was being able to work together during a game and trying games for the first time.

Discovery: Campers had a Mexican fiesta this week!  They made their own food spread of salsa, guacamole, corn tortilla chips, and limeade.  For a craft, campers topped off their fiesta with their very own homemade piñatas.  Olé!

Ink: The youngest campers continued to work on their letter recognition by fishing for letters and finding letters on a scavenger hunt.  What a great and fun way to practice their understanding of the alphabet!

Minute to Win it: Campers did a variety of activities this week, getting to relive some of their favorites from the previous weeks.  Many groups worked on a variety of word games and riddles, which really stretched their brains and relied on team work.   

Be-You-Tiful:  For their final Be-You-Tiful class, campers participated in the paper plate challenge.  They taped a paper plate on their back, and then their fellow campers wrote positive messages about them on it.  After everyone wrote a message on the plate, the campers got to take them off their back, read them, and take them home as a reminder of their own inner and outer beauty.

Razzle Dazzle:  Aaaah.  This week was all about relaxation.  Campers made their own soothing bath scrub out of real rosemary and sea salt.  Then, they each got hand massages and ended the class with cucumbers on their eyes.  What a great way to end camp!

Art:  This week’s focus in art is creating watercolor paintings.  However, the campers are not just using paint brushes.  Once the paint is on the paper, campers used straws to blow the paint around, instead of a brush.  What a unique way to create a painting!

Maker Space:  Campers’ creativity was at its peak this week!  It was almost like being on Chopped, but without any food!  There were a variety of supplies available to them and they had to use the supplies to come up with something unique.  The fun was in making something new out of something old.  

Kindergarten: It has been a wonderful summer!  This week, the kindergartners enjoyed all their favorite classes for the last time and spent a lot of time working on their wonderful lip sync performance.  Thanks for a great summer!

The three-year olds (Koala Bears):  The last week of camp was all about butterflies and bugs!  Campers got to go on a bug hunt, trying to search for some of the bugs and butterflies about which they learned.  What a great way to end a wonderful summer at camp!

The four-year olds (Giraffes and Elephants): It has been a great summer of fun and learning!  This week, campers made the ultimate treat for a hot summer day: popsicles!  Our craft this week was making adorable sea creatures.  What was unique, was that we made our sea creature friends out of cupcake liners.  Thanks for a great summer!

We're thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row, Hathaway Brown has received top billing from Niche, an online platform that tracks educational institutions and provides research findings for public and private schools across the country. In its 2018 ratings, Niche lists HB as #1 in the category of Best Private K-12 Schools in Ohio and #1 in Best All-Girls High Schools in Ohio. We also earned statewide designations as the #2 Best Private High School overall and #3 Best Private High School for STEM. Visit Niche.com to check out all of the rankings and add your review of HB today!

Hathaway Brown School is excited to share that, Dani Lawson '17, has committed to play basketball for Purdue University after her senior year at HB.

At a special signing ceremony held in the Anne Cutter Coburn Reception Room, Lawson's family, friends, teammates, teachers, and school administrators joined her in celebration and wished her continued success in her academic and athletic career. 

Congratulations, Dani, and go Blazers!

Hathaway Brown is one of only three schools in the world to advance more than one team to the Top 64 in International Public Policy Forum debate. The IPPF is a worldwide competition of written debate sponsored by the Bickel and Brewer law firm and New York University. Teams from around the globe wrote preliminary round essays on the topic  “Resolved: The obligation to provide safe haven for refugees should outweigh a government’s right to control its borders.” The Top 64 teams are vying for spots in elimination round bracket, hoping for an all-expenses paid trip to NYC to compete live at the IPPF Finals this coming spring. HB has traditionally fared well in this prestigious competition, even ranking as international runner-up in 2014. This is the first time that more than one HB team has made it this far in the contest. 

HB's Top 64 IPPF teams are:

Team 1 - Alison Xin '19, Jennifer Wang '19, Megan Qiang '19, Sukhmani Kaur '18

Team 2 - Farah Sayed '19, Kathy Wang '19, Angela Zhu '19

ABOUT IPPF
Founded in 2001 by the law firm of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, the International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) is the only contest that gives high school students around the globe the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues of public policy. Now jointly administered by the Brewer Foundation and New York University, this program is available to all public and private high schools for free.

The competition begins in October, as each school submits a qualifying round essay on the IPPF topic. The essay should be no more than 2,800 words, either affirming or negating the topic resolution. The IPPF Essay Review Committee evaluates each essay, and the top 64 teams earn cash awards and advance into a single-elimination, written debate competition.

In the top 64 round, schools volley papers back and forth via e-mail. Judges review the essays in the order they were presented (affirmative constructive, negative constructive, affirmative rebuttal, negative rebuttal) and select the advancing teams. The process begins anew as the Top 32 teams compete for their chance to advance to the Sweet 16 round.

In March, the "Elite 8" teams are announced. These teams win all-expenses-paid trips to New York City to compete during IPPF Finals Weekend. Ultimately, the IPPF Champion wins a $10,000 grand prize and the Brewer Cup. Learn more here. 

Hathaway Brown has been honored with the top spot on Niche's Best Private High Schools in Ohio list for 2017 and we couldn't be prouder! Niche is an online platform that tracks educational institutions and provides research findings for public and private K-12 schools across the country.

Click here to check out the rankings, learn more about HB, and add your review today.

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Hathaway Brown Upper School students set a new school record in regional commendations from the Scholastic Art Awards, a longstanding, highly competitive local and national visual arts program. For 2017, 51 awards were earned by 34 HB girls in grades 9-12 in seven different arts categories. The faculty advisors for these award-winning students are members of the HB Upper School Visual Arts Department: Jamie Morse, Shelly Ahern, and Tyler Zeleny. 

HB students earned eight Gold Keys, 15 Silver Keys, and 28 Honorable Mention designations in Ceramics & Glass, Comic Art, Digital Art, Drawing & Illustration, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking. 

VIEW A GALLERY OF GOLD KEY AND SILVER KEY WINNING WORK

All of the HB students' Gold Key and Silver Key award-winning work, as well as digital representations of the Honorable Mention work, will be on display at the Cleveland Institute of Art. An Award Ceremony and Reception for Gold Key recipients will take place in the Peter B. Lewis Auditorium at CIA on Saturday, January 14, at 1 p.m.; the Silver Key Winners Reception will be held in the Reinberger Galleries at CIA that same day at 3 p.m.; and the Honorable Mention Award Winners Reception will be in the Reinberger Galleries on January 14 at 4 p.m. 

Each Gold Key-designated work is eligible for the Scholastic national competition and will be sent to New York City for judging at the close of the exhibition. Click here to view a complete listing of HB winners, including award level, category, title of work, and faculty advisor. 

Congratulations to the following students:

Congratulations are in order for Hathaway Brown seniors Madeline Howarth and Zoë  Solt, who achieved semifinalist status in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for 2017. These two members of Hathaway Brown's signature Science Research & Engineering Program are among only 300 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars selected from 1,749 applicants hailing from 527 high schools in 46 states and seven American and international high schools overseas. The scholars were selected on the basis of their exceptional promise as scientists, excellent record of academic achievement and outstanding recommendations from teachers and other scientists. Regeneron STS scholars receive $2,000 and are in the running to become one of the top 40 Finalists, who will be announced on Tuesday, January 24. Only four Ohio students earned this scholar designation this year. (For the full list of scholars, please click here.)

Madeline conducts research in the Neurosciences Department at Case Western Reserve University under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Zigmond and postdoc Dr. Jon Niemi. Her research focuses on identifying cellular responses that occur after peripheral nerve injury in order to aid in recovery and how these responses could be used to aid in central nervous system recovery in the future.

Zoë has worked with Dr. Jesse Berezovsky and Robert Badea in the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University for two and a half years for her project on "Domain Wall Motion in Concave Ferromagnetic Nanowires." She studied various nanowire geometries to identify the best structure to facilitate spin-based electronics starting with computer simulations and progressing to actual fabrication of concave permalloy nanowires.

Results have been announced, and Hathaway Brown Upper School students had a phenomenal showing in the Scholastic Writing Awards, a longstanding, highly competitive local and national program. For 2017, 113 awards were earned by 58 HB girls in grades 9-12 in nine different writing categories. The faculty advisors for these award-winning students are Director of the Osborne Writing Center Scott Parsons, and other members of the HB Upper School English Department: Beth Armstrong, Michael Ciuni, and Marty Frazier

HB students earned 10 Gold Keys, 43 Silver Keys, and 60 Honorable Mention designations in Critical Essay, Flash Fiction, Humor, Journalism, Personal Essay/Memoir, Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Short Story, and Writing Portfolio. 

An Award Ceremony and Reception for Gold Key recipients will take place in the Peter B. Lewis Auditorium at the Cleveland Institute of Art on Saturday, January 14, at 1 p.m.; the Silver Key Winners Reception will be held in the Reinberger Galleries at CIA that same day at 3 p.m.; and the Honorable Mention Award Winners Reception will be in the Reinberger Galleries on January 14 at 4 p.m. 

Each Gold Key-designated work is eligible for the Scholastic national competition and will be sent to New York City for judging at the close of the exhibition. Click here to view a complete listing of HB winners, including award level, category, title of work, and faculty advisor. 

Congratulations to the following students:

Five members of the Hathaway Brown Class of 2017 are among the candidates under consideration for the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholars program. Regan Brady, Arielle DeVito, Lina Ghosh, Lauren Gillinov, and Rachel Wang have been selected as nominees for their outstanding academic achievement. Participation in this program is by invitation only. Students do not apply individually to the program. These HB students were identified for the program based on their high ACT and SAT scores. 

All five now have the opportunity to be among a small number of American high school seniors who are named Presidential Scholars. Of the pool of roughly 4,000 candidates, approximately 800 students will be named semifinalists, at which point the U.S. Presidential Scholars Commission will further review the students' qualifications and up to 161 will be named U.S. Presidential Scholars. All Scholars are honored for their accomplishments through the National Recognition Program, held in June in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Presidential Scholars are guests of the U.S. Department of Education, and they enjoy an all-expenses-paid trip to the nation's capital to meet with government officials and educators. To commemorate the achievement, the Scholars will be greeted by the President of the United States, and they will receive special Presidential Scholars Medallions at a ceremony sponsored by the White House. 

The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 by Executive Order of the President to recognize and honor some of our nation's most distinguished students graduating from high school. The Scholars represent "excellence in education and the promise of greatness in young people." 

Hathaway Brown is proud to be the alma mater of eight U.S. Presidential Scholars: Kavya Ravichandran '16, Isabella Nilsson '16, Alyssa Bryan '13, Laney Kuenzel '08, Amy Hollinger ’05, Edith Hines Williams '00, Caroline Campbell '98, and Genevieve Mathieson Kilmer ’96.

Five Hathaway Brown Upper School students competed in the Veale Venture Challenge held on Thursday, February 9 in the school's Learning Commons at HB.

The purpose of the Veale Youth Entrepreneurship Forum is to enable high school students to recognize their full potential by experiencing all facets of entrepreneurship. The Form delivers on that purpose through high-value learning experiences and connections to the real world of entrepreneurship.

Students in the Center for Business & Finance have been working throughout the 2016-2017 school year on developing a business plan using the Lean Canvas Model. The initial pool of competitors included 50 students, and five made it to the semi-final round:

Gina Egan '18: H2Know
Lauren Egts '17: FoodForThought
Erica Kahn '18: No-Mess Necklace
Kalie Sommerfeld '18: Kalie's Cakes
Cynthia Wang '18: Filmzo

L-R: Lauren Egts, Cynthia Wang, Erica Kahn, Kalie Sommerfield, Gina Egan

Each student presented their business concept and plan in front of a panel of judges. At the end of the presentations, judges deliberated and a winning concept was selected. Kahn's No-Mess Necklace will advance to the final competition at Case Western Reserve University on March 14.

Funded by The Veale Foundation, the Forum is a growing network of high schools in Northeast Ohio that was founded in 2012 with assistance from the Young Entrepreneur Institute at University School.

The forum currently reaches some 3,000 students annually at 22 different private and public high schools that are invited for participation and to use the Forum's resources to equip students with an entrepreneurial mindset and essential skills. 

At a special surprise assembly on Thursday, February 23, Hathaway Brown junior Brice Bai of Hudson learned that she is the 2017 Doodle 4 Google winner for the state of Ohio. Google representatives delivered the news in person during a presentation just before lunch with the entire Upper School student body in attendance.

As Ohio's winner, Brice received a personal visit from two Google representatives who flew in from San Francisco for the occasion, and she was presented with a large poster and a t-shirt emblazoned with her winning design, along with a tablet device. Winners in the contest have been selected from 53 U.S. states and territories, and the field now will be narrowed to five finalists who will earn an all-expenses-paid trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., along with a $5,000 college scholarship. The national winner will be announced on March 31. In addition to having his or her design featured on the Google home page that day, he or she will receive a $30,000 college scholarship, $50,000 for technology initiatives at his or her school, and other prizes. 

Finalists will be selected based on a number of criteria, including public voting, which will open in the evening on February 28 and run through March 6. Visit Doodle4Google.com every day to cast your ballot for Brice!

All 2017 Doodle 4 Google contestants were asked to create an original design that answers the question, "What I See for the Future." Brice made a digital image that focuses on the theme of female empowerment, featuring six women depicted as a scientist, a firefighter, a computer programmer, an athlete, a member of the military, and a singer. "What I see for the future is that everyone will be able to be what they want to be, and career choices will not be limited by gender," she said. 

We couldn't agree more. 

Please join us in congratulating Brice Bai and don't forget to vote for her amazing Doodle.

Watch the reveal:

Hathaway Brown School was pleased to once again host the annual Science Research & Engineering Program Poster Session and Reception. This year’s event took place on Tuesday, March 7 in the school's atrium with 133 students and 25 students participated in Advanced Judging or a specialized Computer Science judging. The following students will be representing HB at International Science Fairs in the coming months (or have been awarded a substantial computer science prize):

Intel ISEF Finalists:

Catherine Areklett, '17: Surface versus Bulk Chiral Orientation Effects in Liquid Crystals with Dr. Charles Rosenblatt at Case Western Reserve University

Ananya Kalahasti, '17: Presence of Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes with Asymptomatic Malaria with Dr. Brian Grimberg at Case Western Reserve University

Isha Lele, '18: Investigating the Design of Nanoparticles to Target Difficult-to-Reach Tumor Sites with Dr. Efstathios Karathanasis at Case Western Reserve University

Maya Razmi, '18: Heteromultivalent Approaches to Clot-targeted Nanomedicine: Combination Targeting of Platelets and Fibrin with Dr. Anirban Sen Gupta at Case Western Reserve University

ISWEEEP Finalists:

Lina Ghosh, '17: Compartment-Specific Differences in Dendritic Spine Morphology in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome with David Katz at Case Western Reserve University

Intel Computer Science Award Winners ($200 prize):

Lauren Egts, '17: Reinventing Apollo Technology with Dr. Herb Schilling and Calvin Robinson at NASA Glenn Research Center

The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the largest pre-college scientific research event in the world. Each May (this year from May 14-19 in Los Angeles), more than 1500 student finalists from local and regional fairs from roughly 70 countries and territories arrive to compete at ISEF for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the grand prizes, including one $75,000 and two $50,000 college scholarships. All prizes together amount to over $4,000,000. The International Science and Engineering Fair was founded in 1950 by Science Service (now the Society for Science & the Public) and has been sponsored by the Intel Corporation since 1997. As of 2012, seven ISEF alumni went on to win Nobel Prizes.

I-SWEEEP, The International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering, and Environment) Project, is a groundbreaking science fair competition open to high school students organized by Harmony Public Schools, a K-12 Public Charter School System. With the support of leaders in industry and higher education institutions, I-SWEEEP works with local, national, and international science fair organizations to bring top-ranking participants and qualifying projects to Houston each year, this year from May 3-8. Student finalists from local and regional fairs are selected to attend this top international science fair.

Hathaway Brown is pleased to announce that six students have earned national recognition in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2017, and two students' work has been honored with Governor's Awards in Ohio.

HB's Scholastic national medalists are Catherine Areklett '17 (Silver Medal for Personal Memoir), Gina Egan '18 (Silver Medal for Comic Art), Molly Gleydura '18 (Silver Medal for Digital Art), Layla Najeeullah '20 (Silver Medal for Photography), Maria Perilla '17 (Silver Medal for Writing Portfolio), and Maya Razmi '18 (American Voices Medal for Personal Essay/Memoir).

Additionally, Gina Egan and Emma Borrow '18 have had their art work selected for display in the 2017 Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition. From the 11,500 regional entries from the state's 15 regions, approximately 2,500 are selected to enter the state judging. State jurors then select 300 works for the actual exhibition, which will be shown at the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower in April and May.

Scholastic national medalists have been identified by panels of creative professionals as the most talented young artists and writers in the nation. This year, 330,000 works of art and writing were submitted by students in grades 7-12. Less than one percent of work was recognized at the national level. This is the first time that six HB students have earned national medals in one year. As a recipient of the American Voices Medal, Maya is invited to a special celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June. Since 1923, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the outstanding work of teenagers from across the country. By winning a Scholastic Art & Writing Award, these HB students join a legacy of celebrated authors and artists including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, John Currin, and Lena Dunham. 

Congratulations to these gifted writers and artists and many thanks to the HB faculty who continue to educate, inspire, encourage, and mentor them. For more information about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, please visit the program's official website. To learn more about the Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition, please click here. 

On April 21, nineteen Hathaway Brown seniors were inducted into the Cum Laude Society, an organization established to recognize academic achievement in secondary schools for the purpose of promoting excellence, justice, and honor.

Elizabeth Harding Gold '90, a New York City-based vice president and literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., delivered the ceremony's keynote address. She described her path from Hathaway Brown to where she is today and she discussed the power and promise that lie in the stories we all have within us. The mother of four boys who professionally represents an award-winning world-class stable of middle-grade and young adult authors in a variety of genres also told the girls that individual journeys can and should be fluid. Defining "success" is truly up to you, she said, but if you are authentically devoted to the things that are important to you and you add in a fair amount of flexibility, you truly can have it all -- your all. 

The 2017 Cum Laude Society inductees are Catherine Areklett, Fiona Blumin, Regan Brady, Margaret Broihier, Alanna Brown, Maggie Cha, Lina Ghosh, Lauren Gillinov, Madeline Howarth, Kristina Mullen, Ally Persky, Rosalie Phillips, Gigi Protasiewicz, Leia Rich, Julia Sabik, Jasper Solt, Lydia Spencer, Rachel Wang, and Carly Wellener. 

Several HB alumnae also joined us for the program, and after the ceremony the newly inducted Cum Laude Society members gathered for a reception with their parents, HB faculty, and guests.