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NREC Past Topics and Winners 

2015

Topic: Мой идеальный день
Winners: 1st Round
  • Anglo-American School of Moscow - Nina Nazarenko:  Angelina Danuns (A), Sofia Paramonov (A), Jessica Portnoy (A), Sofia Sanders (A), Beata Huntington (B), Danielle Johnson (B), Aamina Chaudhry (I), Jinhee Kim (I), Elizavetta Fursova (NS), Katherine Hellman (NS), Nikolai Sparrow (NS), Elizabeth Tsesarenko (NS), Galina Yushvaeva (NS)
  • Bellaire Language Academy, TX - Elizabeth McLendon:  Kathleen Connell (A), Irina Didenko (AH), Yuliya Kurganskaya (AH), Daria Vasileva (BH), David Khachaturyan (NS)
  • Booker T. Washington High School, OK - Gwen Palace:  Ana Matveeva (BH), Mark Patton (I)
  • Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, MA - Joshua Walker:  Zachary Horwitz (A), Thomas Parker (A), Josiah Siegel (A), Kaley Arnof (B), John Flahive (I)   
  • By the Onion Sea, IL - Julia Kriventsova Denne:  Sydney Clark (A), Alice Chudnovsky (AH), Katherine Edwards (AH), Nicholas Millan (B), Celia Metzger (I), Andrew Waldrep (I), Daria Chudnovsky (IH), Ekaterina Teryokhina (IH), Ambrina Saied (NS)      
  • C.D. Hylton High School, VA - Paul Rischard:  Colin Bushweller (A)
  • Central High School, TN - Brooke Ballenger:  Amal Altareb (I) 
  • Cherokee High School, NJ - Marian Barnum:  Zachary Fithian (A)
  • E.R. Murrow High School, NY - Yuliya Garmil:  Victoria Chuzhina (AH), Daniel Polonsky (AH), Akmaljon Salimov (AH), Elizabet Shamailov (AH), Regina Avrutis (BH), Michael Chernohelsky (BH), Roman Tsitron (BH), Taras Vorobets (BH), Shodiya Bakhtierova (I), Zarina Ilkanayeva (I), Aleksandra Kaplan (I), Alezandr Li (I), Kristina Melkumova (I), Maria Mikaelian (I), Katia Stepnoi (I), Vlada Burbenko (IH), Lizi Lagvilala (IH), Sheina Nasimov (IH), Jacaqueline Piser (IH), Laura Gevorgyan (NS), Yana Kravchenko (NS), Anna Shepel (NS)     
  • Friends School, MD - Lee Roby:   Annie Blalock (A), Caroline Deitch (A), Connor Hardy (A),  Ben Kinder (A), Eli Loeb (A), Matt Musachio (A), Paige Shephard (A), Kyle Spawn (A) 
  • Glastonbury High  School, CT - Jan Eklund:  Cailin  Brady (A), Lucy Frenkel (A), Ziv Kaputa (A), Rachel Zlotnick (A), Grace Breen (I), Eric Grin (I), Alicia Haynes (I), Sophia Ladyzhets (I), Paige Lee (I), Courtney Luker (I), Alexandra Ross (I), Rebecca Szumski (I)
  • Heritage High School, VA - Svetlana Spencer:  Serina Tehranchi (B), Ardyn Tennyson (B),   
  • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, IL - Paavo Husen:  Joshua Burke (A), Grace Carlberg (A), Maya Costales (A), Liam McParland (A), Manojna Namuduri (A), Rosaura Ocampo (A), Joy Qiu (A), Joshua Rodriguez (A), Vinay Sama (A), Maxwell Shramuk (A), Eve Adami (I), Austin Choi (I), Kadyn Geier (I), Emily Hawker (I), Melanie Hess (I), Alexander Hughes (I), Gregory Johnson (I), Fiona Kurylowicz (I), Rebecca Lisk (I), John Messina (I), Colette Vacha (I)
  • Kellam High School, VA - Alfreda Pohrivchak:  Anastasia Koop (AH), Rylee Charbeneau (B), Lena Koop (BH), Noah Sprouse (I)
  • Langley High School, VA - Valentin Cukierman:  Assem Kussainova (A), Joseph Masom (A), Natalie Ralston (A), Domenic Aulisi (I), Nickolas Mill (I), Brady Richardson (I), Alexander Iakovlev (NS)
  • Langley High School, VA - Rhonda Salem:  Brooke Baird (B), Karina Holbrook (B), Caitlin Nguyen (B), Abigail Pereira (B), Erin Pierce (B), Madeleine Scherer (B), Julia Stucky (B)
  • Louisiana School for Mathematics, Science, and the Arts, LA - Kenneth Olson:  Sarah Rogers (B)
  • Newton South High School, MA - Jill Christensen:  Adrian Andronachi (AH), Hannah Arber (AH), Anna Kirsanov (AH), Samuel Rubel (AH), Gregory Basistiy (IH), Joseph Vedensky (IH)
  • Pritzker College Prep, IL - Phillip Stosberg:  Korayma Chavez (B), Aimee Chrzan (B), Jonathan Martinez (B), Melyza Medina (B), Crismar Mendoza (B), Guillermina Obispo (B), Justin Reyes (B), Joselin Romero (B), Mireya Sierra (B), Graciela Valencia (B)
  • Roland Park Country School, MD - Jim Sweigert:  Kimaya Basu (B), Solana Craig (B), Eden Komar (B), Ruby McAslan (B), Rebekah Robinson (B), Liz Schlerf (B), Rebecca Sereboff (B), Yitong Wang (B), Courtney Wolf (B), Baojin Zhu (B), Abigail Diette (I), Adam Gray (I)
  • Russian Embassy School, DC - Alexandra Bryzgalina:  Anna Halstead (AH)
  • Shaker High School, NY -  Galina Kats:  Suzanna Diehl (A)
  • Shaker High School, NY - Anna Shkaf:  Sophia Casabonne (A), Nicole Lencewicz (B), Rebecca Hyatt (I)
  • Smith Middle School, CT - John Rook:  Zoe Fiano (B), Lilly Horrigan (B)
  • St. Louis University High School, MO - Robert Chura:  Jerome Duggan (A), Michael Smith (A), Jacob Fields (B), Nolan Lodholz (B), Samuel Millman (I), Matthew Quinlivan (I), Cory Thomason (I),
  • St. Paul Central High School, MN - Oksana Cox:  Elmara Baisubanova (AH)     
  • Staten Island Technical High School, NY - John Callahan:  Eema Manzoor (A),
  • Staten Island Technical High School, NY - Olga Dobry:  Maria Russo (B), Olivia Unger (B), Valentina Volpe (B), Michal Zaniewski (B), Steven Zeldin (B)
  • Staten Island Technical High School, NY - Veronika Maslyukova:  Mariam Khan (B)
  • Staten Island Technical High School, NY - Elena Sokolovski:  Matthew Fine (B), SiTing Liu (B), Sara Machrafi (B), Nicolas Nvecio (B), Maria Pondikos (B), Karolina Dubovskaya (BH), Sophia Kobzarenko (BH), Miriam Mykho (BH), Mark Rekutin (BH),
  • Staten Island Technical High School, NY - Isabell Stern:  Jason Liu (I)
  • Staten Island Technical High School, NY - Nataliya Ushakova:  Christian Bonavita (A), David Ip (A), Merrick Eng (B), Gabrielle Garcia (B), Marium Ghobriel (B), Omar Khalifa (B), Steven Wren (B), Tammy Yang (B)
  • Tallwood High School, VA - Ludmila Yuzhbabenko:  Cassidy M. Wagner (B), Samantha E. Pitz (I)
  • Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, VA - Betsy Sandstrom:  Kavya Kopparapu (B), Siona Prasad (B), Evan Strong (B), Phineas Ulmishek-Anderson (B)
  • Thunder Mountain High School, AK - Janna Lelchuk:  Madison Gilberto (B), Lauren Barnhill (B), McKenna Kincaid (B), Christine Taylor (B)
  • Vineland High School, NJ - Vlada Jackson:  Oleh Chernenko (AH), Ashley Hatton (B), Igor Shanava (BH), Hannah Joyce (I),
  • Voznesenka School, AK -  Michelle Mitchell:  Leanida Polushkin (AH)
  • Walnut Hills High School, OH - Johanka Hart-Tompkins:  Angela Byars (A), Taigan Bloemker (B), Mackenzie Brown (B), Emma Shelton (B), Marcella Stewart (B), Nicholas Eggers (I) 
  • West High School, AK - Elena Kostenko-Farkas:  Tara DeGeorge (A), Nicolas Dirksen (A), Ina Claire Flood (A), Sofia Jepson (A), Anastasia Erickson (AH), Megan Biggs (I), Cassandra Gronning (I), Janpal LaChapelle (I), Liam Lally (I), William Lee (I), Mikhail Tretyak (I), Michelle Evans (IH), Kamilla Rakhimova (IH)
  • West High School, AK - Michele Whaley:  Tressa Lee (A), Rachel Richardson (B)
  • Whitby School, CT - Olga Gotta:  Layla Kurbanov (BH) 
Winners: 2nd Round
Anglo-American School of Moscow
Nina Nazarenko:
Sofia Paramonov (Bronze)
Jessica Portnoy (Silver)
Sofia Sanders (Gold)
Angelina Danuns (Gold)
Elizavetta Fursova (Gold)
Katherine Hellman (Gold)
Nikolai Sparrow (Gold)
Elizabeth Tsesarenko (Gold)
Galina Yushvaeva (Gold)
Kathleen Connell (Gold)

Bellaire World Languages Academy
Lisa McLendon:
Irina Didenko (Silver)
Yuliya Kurganskaya (Silver)
David Khachaturyan (Gold)

Buckingham, Browne, &Nichols
Joshua Walker:

Josiah Siegel (Gold)
Thomas Parker (Gold)
Zachary Horwitz (Silver)

By the Onion Sea
Julia Denne:

Sydney Clark (Silver)
Alice Chudnovsky (Gold)
Katherine Edwards (Gold)
Ambrina Saied (Gold)

C. D. Hylton High School
Paul Rischard:

Colin Bushweller (Silver)

Cherokee High School
Marian Barnum:

Zachary Fithian (Silver)

E. R. Murrow High School
Yuliya Garmil:

Victoria Chuzhina (Silver)
Daniel Polonsky (Silver)
Akmaljon Salimov (Silver)
Elizabet Shamailov (Silver)
Laura Gevorgyan (Gold)
Yana Kravchenko (Gold)
Anna Shepel (Gold)

Friends School of Baltimore
Elizabeth Lee Roby:

Annie Blalock (Silver)
Caroline Deitch (Silver)
Connor Hardy (Gold)
Ben Kinder (Silver)
Eli Loeb (Gold)
Matt Musachio (Gold)
Paige Shephard (Gold)
Kyle Spawn (Gold)

Glastonbury High School
Jan Eklund:

Cailin Brady (Gold)
Lucy Frenkel (Silver)
Ziv Kaputa (Gold) 
Rachel Zlotnick (Gold)


Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Paavo Husen:

Joshua Burke (Silver)
Grace Carlberg (Gold)
Maya Costales (Silver)
Liam McParland (Gold)
Manojna Namuduri (Gold)
Rosaura Ocampo (Gold)
Joy Qiu (Gold)
Joshua Rodriguez (Gold)
Vinay Sama (Silver)
Maxwell Shramuk (Silver)

Kellam High School
Alfreda Pohrivchak:

Anastasia Koop (Gold)
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Langley High School
Valentin Cukierman:

Assem Kussainova (Silver)
Joseph Masom (Silver)
Natalie Ralston (Silver) 
Alexander Iakovlev (Gold)

Newton South High School
Jill Christensen:

Adrian Andronachi (Silver)
Hannah Arber (Silver)
Anna Kirsanov (Silver)
Samuel Rubel (Silver)

Russian Embassy School
Alexandra Bryzgalina:

Anna Halstead (Gold)

Shaker High School
Anna Shkaf:

Sophia Casabonne (Gold)
Suzanna Diehl (Silver)

St. Louis University High School
Robert Chura:

Jerome Duggan (Silver)
Michael Smith (Silver)

St. Paul Central High School
Oksana Cox:

Elmara Baisubanova (Gold)

Staten Island Technical High School
John Callahan:

Eema Manzoor (Silver)

Nataliya Ushakova: 
Christian Bonavita (Silver)
David Ip (Silver)

Vineland High School
Vlada Jackson:

Oleh Chernenko (Gold)

Voznesenka School
Michelle Mitchell:

Leanida Polushkin (Bronze)

Walnut Hills High School
Johanka Hart-Tompkins:

Angela Byars (Bronze)

West High School
Elena Kostenko-Farkas:

Tara DeGeorge (Gold)
Nicolas Dirksen (Silver)
Ina Claire Flood (Gold)
Sofia Jepson (Silver)
Anastasia Erickson (Silver)

West High School
Michele Whaley:

Tressa Lee (Silver)

Previous Years (will be updated later)

2014
2013
2012
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Teachers with questions about the essay contest should contact one of the Contest chairs:

Evgeny Dengub

edengub@gmail.com

Paavo Husen
paavo@imsa.edu


John Rook
RookJ@glastonburyus.org

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