bragging on the oldest

with a part time job, volleyball practice and normal load of homework for the average gifted straight A student, my baby girl has been burning the candle at both ends.

i have to say a lump of pride formed in my throat when i seen this, she works hard and will deserve everything she gets out of life  

Posted on September 28, 2010 (0 Comments)

a little about my oldest daughter sam, she has always been outgoing and friendly as a child and all her school work seemed to come fairly easy for her. i believe she has had 2 B’s in her life on her report card, and they were not subjects that would concern a parent for their child’s future prospects.

straight A’s from k-11 with 2 exceptions, she has taken AP classes last year which on grading scale have more value then honors classes so her grade point average is over 4.0 (4.22 last i heard) ranking wise she is in top 10 (6-7 i believe) in her class.

she has played clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, xylophone, and almost any other instrument the teacher would ask her to try. she was always in a gifted class for advanced learning that was hand picked by a group of teachers, she has been in and placed or won several science fairs, spelling bees, speech competitions etc. etc.

once she got to high school she auditioned for the art school in our town that is academically heads and shoulders above the rest of the district on the state mandated criteria.

she was accepted for piano (1 of only 7 chosen city wide) and a creative writing magnet and has continued to impress and amaze every teacher she has had. going to open houses and parent teacher conferences has always been a pleasure because they have done nothing but praise her for her attitude and abilities. she has won some gold key writing contests for her creative writing class.

the summer between her 7th and 8th grade year she found out about a summer program called “Wright Stepp”. this was a program that introduced girls and minorities to all phases engineering at the local college Wright State University.

the concept is they spend 3 weeks each summer going to the college and taken tours and classes to expose them to all aspects of engineering and it lasts 4 summers. At the end of those 4 summers, if you kept a B average, never missed a day in the summer and didn’t get in any trouble each student would receive a 4 year full scholarship to Wright State, which she finished last year so that was in her pocket as she started the 11th grade.

then she comes home this spring with papers about another program at the same college called “Horizons in Medicine” which is a 5 week summer program where ther spend half the day at college and half the day job shadowing a doctor in the field of their choice, at the end of this each student got 1 full year scholarship.

in this program there would be one student picked by the faculty that they thought showed the most potential or was the most deserving amongst the group of 20 students and they would receive a 3 extra years on top of the 1 year for the program. you guessed it my baby got picked, she has 8 years of full tuition value in her back pocket and she just started her senior year.

she gets upset with me cause i’m always bragging about her whenever the chance come up but really, how could you not, she makes me so proud i could cry (although no one would ever see that happen and i’ll deny it ever did)

i am blessed with all 3 of my children and truly do not deserve the angels i have.

the 3 and 13 year old is just as amazing but thats another whole blog for later.

Posted on September 9, 2010 (0 Comments)