Upper School Summer Reading: The Upper School summer reading list can be downloaded from the Upper School division page or by clicking Summer Reading 2009.
Middle School Summer Reading: This Middle School sumer reading lists can be downloaded for each grade from the Middle School division homepage.
Congratulations to: Rising senior Scott Wieman for being only one of 16 students in New York to receive a 36, the top composite score, on the April 2009 ACT exam. Further, Scott is one of only 268 students who received a top score of 36 on that ACT national test date.
Student Receives Perfect Score: Eighth grader Brett Saperstein was recognized by the Association of American Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) for receiving a perfect score on the 2009 National Spanish Exam. Each year, more than 106,000 students take the exam, the purpose of which is to recognize student achievement and to promote language proficiency.
National Merit Recognizes Seniors: Students receiving recognition from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation this spring include Flora McDavid '09, who has
been selected as the winner of a National Merit Scholarship, Carole Mariani '09, who has received a National Merit Rice University Scholarship, and Alexander Shapiro '09, who has received a National Merit Northwestern University Scholarship. Congratulations to them all!
4 Stars: Rye Country Day School recently received its third consecutive 4-star (“exceptional”) rating from Charity Navigator, a national organization that evaluates the fiscal health of non-profits each year. Only 11 percent of charities rated by Charity Navigator have achieved three or more consecutive 4-star ratings. Charity Navigator notes that Rye Country Day’s “exceptional” designation means that the school “consistently executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way and outperforms most other charities in America.”
An Open Letter to the RCDS Community from the Westchester Commisioner of Health. Click here.
Strategic Plan Update: The updated Strategic Plan can be found under the About Us section.
Seniors Win Scholarships: Classmates Kelly Gordon and Jason Wong have been named recipients of a 2009 New York State Education Department Scholarship for Academic Excellence. The scholarships are awarded based on scholastic achievement in high school.
Students Ace Latin Exam: Junior Adam Colombo and eighth grader Clare McClintock both received recognition from the National Latin Exam Committee for achieving a perfect score on the 2009 National Latin Exam. Only 917 students out of over 137,000 who participated in the entire United States and ten other countries attained this distinction!
May Campus Newsletter
WildScats Sing their Way to First Place: The RCDS WildScats recently took first place at the Gilda's Club A Capella Extravaganza fund-raiser held at Master's School. Twelve singing groups from six schools competed, and the Manhattanville Sound served as judges.
Science Students Win Awards: Five middle school students and three upper school students presented projects at the Tri-County Science and Technology Fair at White Plains High School on April 26. Sophomore Samisha Bansal won second place in the high school environmental science category for her project, A Feasibility Study of Wind Power for a School: Calculating the Factors and Dependent Economics. Eighth grader Tyler Pager was awarded first place in the middle school environmental science category for his project, Effect of Classroom Lighting on Achievement.
Environmental Excellence: Sophomore Caroline Breinin has been named as a recipient of a Westchester County Earth Day 2009 award for her outstanding leadership in recycling programs. Read more.
RCDS Earth Month: Earth Month is here! Learn about the RCDS Energy Audit, the Veggie Van and more by downloading the April issue of the "Going Green" Newsletter!
Read all about the 2008-2009 winter athletic season. Click here.
Students Place in Championship: Rye Country Day School seventh-grader Dylan Bronson proved himself a true chess master recently at the 2009 Westchester County Scholastic Chess Championship. Read more.
Junior Wins Music Award: RCDS junior Julia Sayles was chosen as one of four student winners in the annual Hudson Valley Music Club's Students Awards Competition. Julia plays the French horn. On Monday, April 27, the four winners will present a concert featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Saint-Saens and Hindesmith at the Dobbs Ferry Women's Club at 1 p.m.
Girls' Basketball Wins First State Championship: The girls' varsity basketball team won Rye Country Day's first NYSAISAA state championship with a 38-27 win over Staten Island Academy. The Wildcats were led by junior Alexandra Osborn-Jones, who scored 17 points, while collecting 16 rebounds and 9 blocked shots. The girls' varsity finished with 19-3 record, which includes a Fairchester Athletic Association championship. Click here to read more.
Sophomore Recognized for Research: Congratulations to sophomore Swathi Krishnan, who was awarded second place overall in the Oral Presenter category at the Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (CT-JSHS) recently. Swathi is one of only two students who will now have the opportunity to compete at the National JSHS in Colorado in April. Her research, which she is pursuing under the guidance of Dr. Vinayaka Prasad of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, attempts to identify RNA molecules that can block the replication of the HIV-1 virus.
Going Green Newsletter: Click here to download pdf
Congratulations: to three top athletic performances over this semester. Senior Adlee Fayyez won over 100 matches as a high school wrestler during his four years at RCDS. Fellow wrestler and junior Obinna Nwakeze attained the title of High School All American last weekend, and Alexandra Osborn-Jones, a junior, scored her 1,000th point on the girls varsity basketball team!
Learning as they "Goes": is the title of a recent Journal News article about this year's upcoming Student/Faculty Musical, Anything Goes. Reporter Peter Kramer interviews director Cary Fuller about the challenges of introducing the Cole Porter comedy to a new generation. To read the entire article, click here.
2009 State of the School Address
Six Named Finalists: The National Merit Corporation has announced that all six RCDS seniors who were chosen as Semifinalists in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Competition have advanced to Finalist standing. Congratulations to Jacqueline Baron, Carole Mariani, Flora McDavid, Matthew Peterson, Dennis Purcell, and Alexander Shapiro.
Congratulations to the RCDS Academic Challenge Team! Last November, the team competed in round one of The Challenge, an academic TV quiz show featuring the best and brightest local students. The two shows were broadcast on News 12 cable TV station in January, and showed RCDS soundly defeating Thornton Donovan School from New Rochelle. The team will now move on to round two in March. Members of the RCDS Academic Team include seniors Will Lassman and Jake Shulman, and juniors Grayson Clary, Josh Geller, Jon Madorsky and Eugene Vinitsky. Team advisors are Dr. Bill Lipnick and Jeff Bates.
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