JCHS Undergraduate Honors Night
Jefferson County High School Undergraduates were honored for excellent academic and special area achievement on Wednesday evening, April 30, 2014. The annual event was hosted by Carson-Newman University and highlighted the best of the best of the 2013-2014 school year. Dr. Charles Edmonds, Director of Jefferson County Schools, as well as Dr. Scott Walker, Principal of Jefferson County High School, were on hand to congratulate award winners. Narrators for the evening were Steven McCoy, Anna Lee Hawkins and Keegan Tucker.
2013-2014 Honors Award Winners
Special Awards
Ronald Reagan Student Leader Award
9th Grade – Bryson Jurek 10th Grade-Abigail Batemen 11th Grade-Lauren Collin
Boys State/Girls State
Fiona Scruggs & Brooke Taylor will attend Girls State. Andrew Vick and Caleb Maxey will represent us at Boys State.
Governor’s School
Anna Lee Hawkins, Skyler Mangrum, and Keegan Tucker for Arts
Simeon Huff for Humanities
Leslie Odom for Agricultural Sciences
Shaver Phagan for Sciences
Spencer Edmonds for Scientific Models and Data Analysis
Appalachian Electric Cooperative
For their success in producing short stories relating to the Cooperative, Cera Dominicis was selected first place female winner and Anna Lee Hawkins was second place. The first place male was Caleb Maxey, and second place was Josiah Watson. First place winners will spend an all-expenses paid week in Washington, D.C., and second place winners receive a cash prize of $75.
Jefferson County Historical Society
Bree Eccles.
Community Service Award
Bree Eccles, Katrina Eccles, and Zachary Helton
Service Learning Program
Jefferson County High School’s Service Learning program encourages a lifetime of service as it collaborates with leaders across the county. United with Skills in Action, this partnership totaled 3,969 hours in JeffersonCounty. When calculated with the minimum wage, the combined total brings $28,775 of service to our county. The students would like to thank the many placement directors for mentoring this network of positive youth development. Jefferson County illustrates the national service-learning theme–“Our World-Our Future”.
Vocational
Eric Smelcer
Agriculture and FFA
The Outstanding Freshman Agriculture Student for 2013-14 is Taylor Puls.
The Outstanding Freshman FFA Member for 2013-14 is McKala Pruitt.
The Outstanding Sophomore Agriculture Student for 2013-14 is Kassie Hall.
The Outstanding Sophomore FFA Student for 2013-14 is Samantha Doute.
The Outstanding Junior Agriculture Student for 2013-14 is Jarret Moser.
And The Outstanding Junior FFA Member for 2013-14 is MacKenna Vaughn.
Lora Satterfield is receiving a special Advisor’s Choice award from FFA this year.
Cosmetology
The Outstanding Sophomore Cosmetology student of 2014 is Brandi Dalton.
The Outstanding Junior Cosmetology Student Of 2014 is Cora Odom.
Family & Consumer Science
From the Nutrition and Foods class, Samantha Ornelas.
From the Child and Lifespan class, Eleanor Trent.
From the Family and Parenting class, Caitlyn Helman.
For Family and Consumer Science, Erin Corum and Angel Trentham.
For Housing and Interior Design, Alyssa Rush.
For Textiles & Apparel, Amanda Lowe
Health Science Technology
The Health Science and Technology department would like to recognize the following HOSA members who participated in the Tennessee HOSA State Conference in Nashville, TN.
Andrea Belcher, June Cho, Jesse Ennis, Hannah Large, and Cora McWilliams.
HOSA would also like to recognize the following students as recipients of the HOSA underclassmen awards: Allyssa Blomdahl, Lucas Cronenwett, Mackenzie Cureton, Jesse Ennis, and Hannah Large
Skills USA
Congratulations to Keysa Deaton on her regional first place finish in job interview competition.
SkillsUSA and the JCHS criminal justice program would also like to congratulate Vivian Romines on her fourth place finish in criminal justice at regional competition.
Marketing—DECA
Abby Bateman and Joey Jennings
JROTC
This year’s recipients of the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Army JROTC Outstanding Cadet Award are Andrew Tomm, Sereina Gann, and Marcus Maxwell.
English 11
Congratulations to the following students for being selected as recipients of the Advanced Placement Combined Studies Award. Combined studies is a year-long intensive study of American literature within its historical setting.
Rachel Blalock, Bree Eccles, Isaac Fields, John Garber, Rebekah Gladden, Casey Hartgrove, Rachel Hickle, Simeon Huff, Chloe Lane, Jessica Michael, Aaron Reed, Fiona Scruggs, and Katie Seale.
The following students have excelled in the Honors Combined Studies Program this year. Please stand to be recognized: Anthony Bingert, Rachel Blankenship, John Bryant, Lauren Collins, Erin Essington, Kelsey Haun, Logan Hayes, Lucas Kirkpatrick, Miranda Long, Shania Moody, and Charleigh Sturniolo. Congratulations.
English 10/Honors
Dominique Banks, Amanda Berry, Kaitlyn Byar, Erin Corum, Alex Seagle, Caitlin Toral, and Kate Zander
English 9/Honors
Jacob Hoover, Abby McCurry, Luke Kindred, Chloe Hodge, Jacob Moore, Aria Skyler, Ashtyn Cross, and Tara Thompson
Yearbook
Outstanding Junior Yearbook Students are: Haley King, Abby Lawson, Emme Mutterspaugh, Silver Munguia, Morgan Ridenour, and Tabatha Wilson.
Forensics
Matthew Stallings, Maggie Pettit, Olivia Byrd, Mariah Lewis, Anna Lee Hawkins and Keegan Tucker
Foreign Language Department
French 1 award – Jasmine Herndon
French 2 award- Shelby Willocks
German 1 award- Alexandra Leatherman
Honors German 1 award- Alex Seagle.
German 2 award- Kaitlyn Byar
Awards for Spanish Excellence- Deven Hills, Jacob Rex, and Katie Seale
Chorus
Chorus awards- Jacob Lindsey and Amanda Sendall
The following student is recognized as an Outstanding Patriot Singer- Captain Madison Coffey.
Drama
Each year DRAMA II students are chosen who have excelled in stage performance and production. These students are named to the Centre Stage cast : Abigail Cate, Casey Hartgrove, Anna Lee Hawkins, Christian Hawkins, Brandi Liner, Marisa Motsinger, Zachary Priest, Kyle Pullen, Victoria Sutton, Sherree Williams, Cailyn Wood, Emily Yow, and Ayla Plasencia.
Outstanding Drama students of 2014: Drama I: Olivia Byrd. Drama 2: Anna Lee Hawkins.
BAND
The award for Outstanding Performance in AP music theory goes to Keegan Tucker.
These students were chosen from students from the Eastern Tennessee region band programs, through competitive audition, to be included in the 2014 ETSBOA All State East band: Joshua Fox and John Garber.
The year’s JCHS All State Honoree is David Garber.
Visual Arts
The JCHS winners of the Rose Center High School Art Show of Morristown are:
Honorable Mention – Hannah Oakes
1st Place- Skylar Mangrum
The Morristown Council for the Arts BRAVO finalists for outstanding portfolios are:
Miranda Long
Sheri Ferguson
Skylar Mangrum
The Regional Winner for the BRAVO Outstanding Portfolio goes to Skylar Mangrum. Skylar also received a cash prize of $500.
The following students were finalists for The First Congressional High School Art competition.
Skylar Mangrum
Hannah Oakes
The winner for the Point In Time Homeless Count Contest is Katie Shaw. Katie was the grand prize winner for 9 counties in the East TN., where her poster has been displayed throughout the area. Congratulations, Katie.
The Visual Arts Advanced Placement Student of the Year is Skylar Mangrum.
The Jefferson County High School Director’s Gallery Winners are
9th Grade – Tara Linder
10th Grade Estrtella Hernandez
11th Grade – Skylar Mangrum
Honors Algebra 1
The following students have demonstrated outstanding achievement in
Honors Algebra 1 during the 2013-14 academic year: Evan Day, David Garber, Chloe Hodge, Ashley McSpadden, Jonathan Royster, McKenna Alexander, Mckenzie Lane, Jenna Brewer, Mark Park, and Kaylee Tollefson.
Honors Algebra II
The following students are being honored as the top students in Honors Algebra 2: Leslie Odom, Luke Seifert, Katelyn Bolinsky, Jacob Hoover, Abbie Reed, Jayde Vittetoe, David Bang, Olivia Byrd, Erin Corum, Spencer Edmonds, Allison Franklin, Joseph Giles, Casey Hartgrove, Maegen Schwartz, and Kate Zander.
Honors Geometry
The Math department would like to recognize the following students for outstanding achievement in Geometry:
David Bang, Katelyn Bolinsky, Olivia Byrd, Erin Corum, Spencer Edmonds, Dharma Fawbush, Kristopher Harlow, Courtney Marion, Ian Murray, Alex Seagle, Luke Seifert, Michael Taylor, and Kate Zander.
Honors Pre-Calculus
The Math Department wishes to recognize the following students who have achieved exemplary status in Honors Precalculus. This award is being given to students who have the highest semester grade point average in Honors Precalculus, calculated to the nearest 100th: John Garber, Deven Hills, Simeon Huff, Shay Phagan, Fiona Scruggs, and Keegan Tucker.
TMTA
The following students placed in the top 10 of the Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association Competition held annually at Carson-Newman University. Placement is based on their score on a state-wide test.
For Algebra I
8th place, Ashley McSpadden,
7th place, Justin France,
5th place, Min-JaePark,
4th place, Nate Calzadilla,
Geometry
10th place, Luke Seifert
8th place, Ian Murray
6th place, Kristopher Harlow
Algebra II
10th place, Joey Jennings,
8th place tie, Caitlyn Toral,
8th place tie, Joseph Giles,
4th place, Kate Zander,
Statistics
6th place, Bree Eccles
The next group of students placed in the top 3 of their respective test regionally and will have their scores automatically sent on to state competition. They will receive a plaque and, additionally, the 1st place winners each receive a $1,000 scholarship from Carson-Newman University.
Algebra I
2nd place, Evan Day,
1st place, David Garber,
Geometry
3rd place, Kaitlyn Bolinsky,
2nd place, Alex Seagle,
1st place, David Bang,
Statistics
1st place, John M. Garber
Science Bowl
The Science department would like to recognize the Science Bowl Team for representing JCHS at the Regional Science Bowl Competition at Pellissippi: Jordan Alexander, Thomas Chandler, Daniel Price, and Devin Wilcox.
Science Olympiad
The following students won medals at the regional Science Olympiad event and earned the right to compete at the state tournament. Seth Franklin, Kassie Hall, Caleb Maxey, Shay Phagan, Fiona Scruggs, and Josiah Watson. In addition to placing at the regional level, the following students earned medals at the state competition: Miranda Long and Kate Zander.
Science Fair
The science department would like to recognize Bree Eccles, Katrina Eccles and Erin Bacon for their participation in the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair held on the campus of the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Bree and Katrina’s research project was titled “Caffeine Usage as an Environmentally Friendly Pesticide: a Dual Model Study on Gender Effects.” This project earned the following awards: Finalist Honorable Mention; Biology Teacher Award certificate along with a $75 cash prize, and Special Award ribbons. Erin’s research project was titled “Up, Up, and Away with Solar Power Part III”. This project earned the following awards: U.S. Navy Award/Naval Research Award; 2nd place Philanthropic Educational Organization Award along with a cash prize and Special Award ribbon.
Honors Biology
The following students have been selected to receive the Honors Biology I Award: Shannon Collins, Tyler Corum, Kailee Hixon, Jamie Hoffner, Alexandra Leatherman, Mariah Lewis, Amanda Oler, Trey Tucker, McKenna Alexander, Stone Stephens, Nicholas Strong, Tara Thompson, Seth Franklin, and Elizabeth McCormick.
Chemistry
Congratulations to the following students who have been chosen to receive the Honors Chemistry I Award: Katelyn Bolinsky, Kristopher Harlow, Carrie Harrell, Alex Seagle, Kate Zander, Kaitlyn Byar, Jesse Ennis, Joseph Giles, Joey Jennings, Jacob Lindsey, Alexis Greene, Maegen Schwartz, and Devin Wilcox.
Congratulations to the following students who have been chosen to receive the Honors Chemistry II Award: Spencer Edmonds, Logan Hayes, and Kate Zander.
Congratulations to the following student for his accomplishments in AP Chemistry, Simeon Huff.
Physics
The following students are recognized as Top Physics I students: John Garber, Simeon Huff, Jessica Michael, & Deven Hills.
A.P. Government
AP Macroeconomics / Comparative Government: Katelyn Bolinsky, Lauren Doane, and Allyson Franklin
AP Microeconomics/U.S. Government: Olivia Byrd, Scarlett Edmonds, Spencer Edmonds, Joseph Giles, Kristopher Harlow, Luke Seifert, and Kate Zander.
Honors World Geography
The following students are recognized for outstanding performance in Honors World History: McKenzie Lane, Catherine Vines and Trey Tucker.
Honors Ancient History
Morgan Kiestler and Jenna Mynatt
LINK
The Social Studies department would like to honor 3 outstanding LINK Staff members: Elizabeth Brogan, Brooke Burchfield, and Leo Fonner. These students are the LINK Leadership team. They have freely given their time, energy and expertise to new members as well as to incoming freshmen. Without their involvement, LINK would have struggled this year. It is with great admiration that we present Elizabeth, Brooke, and Leo with the Outstanding LINK Leadership Award.
Students of the Year
9th-Emily Vick and Reno Helton
10th – Abby Bateman, Olivia Byrd, Kate Zander ( three way tie for female student of the year) and Spencer Edmonds
11th-Chloe Lane and Shay Phagan
Student Paulina Morelos was the winner of an iPad donated by the Jefferson County Department of Education Technology Department.
Beyond individual awards, students were also recognized for their participation in various honors clubs and associations.
