• Samuel Macura of Great Falls earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting, cum laude; Shujian Li of Great Falls earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry; Mason Satterfield earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration; and Sean Sunjoon Lee of Vienna earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa during recent commencement exercises at Washington & Lee University.
• Nathaniel Manfra of Vienna earned a bachelor of arts degree in interactive media, summa cum laude, during recent commencement exercises at Clark University.
• Lauren Von Elm of McLean has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Roger Williams University.
• Audrey Saliba of McLean has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at the University of Scranton.
• Jonathan Brinkmiller of Oakton has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at the College of New Jersey.
• Ryan Fowler of McLean has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Dean College.
• Ramsey Collins of Oakton has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Siena College.
• Lina Cao of Great Falls has been inducted into the George Mason University chapter and Davian Harry of McLean has been inducted into the University of Maryland Global Campus chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi academic honor society.
• Kyle Tang of Vienna, a graduate of South Lakes High School, was selected to participate in a summer-research project with a faculty member at Lebanon Valley College, where he is majoring in biology.
• The following local students were among those named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at James Madison University.
> From Dunn Loring: Haley Platter, Justin Wickham.
> From Great Falls: Pouya Parsinejad, Lucas Anderson, Manasi Uprety, Olivia Elkas, Ethan Addington, Sarah Ormond, Kayla Asgari, Hunter Borcherding, Michael Buckinghm, Sophia Beeland, Alexandra Keating, Lilly Witte, Jayson Goldstein.
> From McLean: Julien Barakat, Cyrus Kaviani, Justin Dehghan, Easton McCullough, Jennifer Siryani, Gianna Esposito, Farah Bilbeisi, Cole Strubhar, Samantha Leech, Devon Bjorge, Reilly Blanton, Dana Backes, Evan Neto, Olivia Elkas, William Chapman, Calvin Higgins, Amelia Cunha Mendonca, Lauren Danoff, Caledonia Hamilton, Stirling Hamilton, Seth Yusuf, Jack Telep, Kiran Blanton, Caroline Calabia, Justin Daly, Nadine Krauss, Eliot Roberston.
> From Oakton: Alexander Peters, Harrison Patel, Kenneth Bitner, John Kim, Ethan Gortowski, Audrey Perry, Avery Pingel, Melanie Boyle, Evan Fisher, Cameron Rejali, William Stroud, Ebenezer Aja-onu, Cameron Arezzo, Reid Cotton, Grace Holland, Hop Holland, Anna Lewis.
> From Vienna: Harper Peterson, Nicole Parks, Alexander barna, Evan Bremser, Andrew Weinstock, Andrew Zarazinski, Katherine Reuss, Jessic Papandon, Juan Jerez-Mungula, Hannah Lindley, Charissa Park, Walker Hubbard, Julia Kupczak, Sarah Grace, Christine Paniszczyn, Gavin Bundy, Theadora Makrigiorgos, Katherine Benedetti, Malcolm Burbano, Colin Campbell, Benjamin Frederick, William Giery, Alexandra Gound, Dimitrije Hryshchyshyn, Hayley Larson, Emily Lowe, Hannah Lowe, Rachel Mitchem, Andrew Thompson, Amalia Makrigiorgos, Nima Tuberson, Gabriella Hatch, Kai McCloskey, Jenna Hosea, Quinn Agniel, Eric Aldridge, Cameron Begelman, Liana Davila, Nooshon Farhadi, Alexander Feather, Virginia Hurley, Ayana Khan, Curtis Lee, Justina Lu, Carissa Ma, Evan Moss, Christian Nurmi, Adam Samamreh, Catalina Schuab Moya, Natalie Son, Adelin Soucek, Norah Squires, Joseph Weier.
• Aprameyan (Mayan) Ramanujan, a rising fifth-grader at Spring Hill Elementary School, came away with numerous awards at the National Bees and Championships Exams competition, held recently in Orlando.
In the fourth-grade competition, Mayan took home first place in the National History Bee, second in the U.S. History Bee, third in the National Geography Bee and was a semifinalist in the National Science Bee. He was the only student from Virginia to have placed in the top three in any of the four competitions.
He also won gold medals in five exams – Black American History, Ancient History, Recent History, U.S. Military History and European Geography – plus silver medals in two and bronze in four more.
The competition is sponsored by International Academic Competitions U.S. Division. For information on the competition and full results, see the Website at https://www.iacompetitions.com/elementary-middle-school-national-championship-results/.
• Thirty Scouts from Troop 652, sponsored by St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in McLean, recently completed a week in the woods at the Rodney Scout Reservation in Maryland.
While at camp, seven scouts from the troop advanced in rank. The troop earned a total of 86 merit badges and competed in the camp’s Iron Scout Competition, which included running, canoeing, rock-climbing and archery. Four Scouts auditioned to participate in the Closing Campfire and were selected to perform.
Gregg Ladislaw, Kevin Coyne and Matthew Loughran were the trip’s adult advisers.
