1. Class of 2010 IB Diploma and Honors students

2. Kong Yang  Honors speech: the Computer Science Dossier  CAS activities: Tennis, observing art  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: raising Monarch butterflies  Looking forward to in college: Independent learning “Stealthy Honor”

3. Matt Wells  Honors speech:  CAS: soccer & golf  Advice for underclassmen: Don’t fall behind on your work  Will miss about HP: friends and free golf “steady humor”

4. Lor Vang  Honors Speech: Spino Cerebellum Degeneration and sense perception  CAS activities: Community youth work and badminton  Looking forward to college to: meet new people  Advice for parents: Support your children “Judicious brilliance”

5. Libby Stone  Honors speech: “Body Language”  CAS activities: Orchestra, gymnastics, Simpson shelter, musicals  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: touching a deer’s heart  Theme song thus far: Prelude to the Bach Cello Suites “Incisive Clarity”

6. Ellie Schneider  Honors speech: Color Theory in Advertising  CAS activities: Volunteering at Longfellow Elementary, HP newspaper  Most valuable project in high school: the english oral during Junior year  Will miss about HP: some people, the funny teachers, and being a part of HP tennis “Gentle Honor”

7. Nate Rue  Honors speech:  CAS activities: Hockey, tennis, tutoring  Will be missed at HP for: always varied hair styles, and never varying good humor “Radical Precisions”

8. Erin Prizant  Honors speech: Autism  CAS activities: Archery, SPNN video editing, Drawing  Looking forward to college: Getting more experience in editing and motion graphics  Advice for juniors: Do all your college stuff and testing in the summer after your junior year “Singular Voice”

9. Joey Otte  Honors speech: Physics of Frisbee  CAS activities: Coaching baseball, playing music and frisbee  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: incubating chickens  Advice for teachers: Don’t overwork your students!  Theme song thus far: ‘These colors flee the scene’ “Soul of the Game”

10. Mark Macapagal  Honors speech: Culture and tradition in the Phillipines  CAS activities: Tutoring for children’s programs  Looking forward to college: the freedom to shape own future and education  Will miss about HP: the comfortable social environment that allows me to be myself here “Truthful humanitarian”

11. Shelby Malcolm  Honors speech: Languages taught in high schools  CAS activities: camp counselor, Wabasha National Eagle Center volunteer  Most valuable project: Did Dinosaurs exist?  Will miss about HP: all her friends  Advice for parents: Get involved in kid’s school life “Gentle Strength”

12. Mai Nhoua Lee  Honors speech: The Medical Ethics of Designer Babies  CAS activities: Band, Asian Culture Club, Salvation Army, Lao Family Soccer Tournament  Advice for underclassmen: Sleep now, because you will not be getting any later…  Theme song thus far: ‘Live like we’re dying’ “Wickedly Brilliant Thinker”

13. Andrea Lane  Honors speech: Comparing the curriculum of various high schools  CAS activities: jewelry making, softball  Will be missed at HP for: thoughtful civic actions, and low key kindnesses “Soulful Honesty”

14. Elena Kronmiller  Honors Speech: Flaws with the Myers Briggs Personality Profile  CAS activities: Badminton, food shelf  Advice for underclassmen: pretend to know what you are doing, even if you don’t.  Looking forward to college: being in a new environment, with independence! “Worldly Balance”

15. Derek Krautkremer  Honors speech: Steroids in professional sports around the world  CAS activities: Mission trip to New Orleans, hockey  Favorite memory from kindergarten: my class had a pool full of rice we got to play with  Looking forward to college: being able to study a specific area I am interested in “Righteous Ease”

16. Sean Kopp-Reddy  Honors speech:  CAS activities: music and tennis  Advice for teachers: Homework has fallen out of favor with current high school students… There is no longer any reason to continue assigning it.  Theme song thus far: ‘Rancid’ “Ironic Sincerity”

17. Miles Davison  Honors Speech: Interpretation of Rap Music  CAS Activities: Basketball, music, senior class council  Most valuable project in school: 9th grade biology rap  Looking forward to college: being away from Minnesota “Honest Quest”

18. Jack Coyne  Honors Speech: Steroid use in sports  CAS Activities: Tennis, Jazz Band, Tutoring, Food shelf  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: Flat Stanley and Grandparents Day  Advice for underclassmen: Don’t procrastinate, and have fun in high school. “Judicious Energies”

19. Joshua Corner  Honors Speech: analysis of ‘Howl’  CAS Activities: Theater, speech, and volunteerism at Cedar Cultural Center  Will be missed at HP for: the raised eyebrows as he poses a ‘But you could think about it…’ “Subversive Potential”

20. Tierney Broberg  Honors Speech: Apartheid in South Africa  CAS Activities: service trip to South Africa, golf, piano  Most valuable project in school: The French IB oral, because it was one of the most terrifying things I have had to make myself do.  Will miss about HP: her friends “ Steady Integrity”

21. Owen Boardman  Honors Speech: ‘Politeness Overvalued’  CAS Activities: tutoring, speech, and running  Favorite memory from kindergarten: learning to breakdance  Advice for teachers: Don’t take it personally when people are not interested in what you have to say. “Sees through the obfuscation”

22. Andrei Bergthold  Honors Speech: Chess in Schools  CAS Activities: Teaching chess, playing music  Most valuable project in highschool: the WWII timeline for history  Advice for parents: Let your children be the masters of their own fate. The power of the creative mind is unstoppable. “Consummate Strategist”

23. Luis Benavides  Honors speech: How playing in a band develops life skills  CAS Activities: playing in a band  Most valuable assignment in highschool: the computer dossier  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: snack and nap time “The Edge of Valor”

24. Wendy Batch  Honors Speech: The future - is it here?  CAS Activities: working on house on Pine Ridge, volunteering at Planned Parenthood  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: Performing ‘Somos como las Flores’ in giant flower costumes  Advice for underclassmen: Befriend the exchange students. You may end up making a life long friend! “Luminous Analysis”

25. Sarah Alvarado  Honors Speech: Global warming and environmental progress  CAS Activities: music, NHS volunteerism, tennis  Most valuable project: the 15 minute English oral- it helped me overcome my fear of orals.  Advice for teachers: Keep the work going and motivation high, and take short breaks. When we take long breaks its difficult to work hard again. “Clarity of Intellect”

26. Tiwa Ajibewa  Honors Speech: Ethics of sports heroes  CAS Activities: running, Haiti relief  Looks forward to in college: studying abroad  Advice for parents: encourage your kids  Theme song thus far: ‘Forever Young’ “ A Man’s Wisdom”

27. Sebastian Zeck  Extended Essay: The Influence of Anarchism and Politics on the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti  CAS Activities: photography, music  Will be missed at HP for: the ease with which he entered into class discussions, leaving others feeling welcomed and relaxed. “Independent Vision”

28. Kate Siess  Extended Essay: Aristotelian Love in Pride and Prejudice  CAS Activities: Children’s Hospital Super Volunteer  Will be missed at HP for: her dedication to service as a fundamental good which needs no other reward. “Genuine Action”

29. Abby Setterholm  Extended Essay: Philosophy and Practicality: An Analysis of the Purpose of Hadrian’s Wall  CAS Activities: theater, Model United Nations, mission trips  Looking forward to in college: studying what I am actually interested in, meeting people from around the world  Advice for teachers: remember that students have lives outside of school also “Seeker of Truths”

30. William Robertson  Extended Essay: The Finn Ski War  CAS Activities: volunteer music counselor, skiing, sound director/JCC  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: finding my lunch box after someone threw it on the roof of the school  Will miss about HP: the diversity “Valor and equanimity”

31. Christopher Penning  Extended Essay: The Soviet Regime’s Effect on the Musical Career of Mstislav Rostropovich  CAS activities: cello, soccer, tutoring  Will be missed at HP for: his ebullient nature and universally kind manner to others- even at 7:51 am. “Thoughtful abandon”

32. Jack Kolb  Extended Essay: The pursuit of the four minute mile  CAS activities: running, Math team, Habitat for Humanity  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: snack time (I wish we had it in HS)  Advice for teachers: Keep up the good work, and don’t lose your passion for what you do. “Humane Brilliance”

33. Sher Her  Extended Essay: Imperialism on the Eve of WWI  CAS Activities: United Hospital Volunteer, Youth Literary Program, tennis  Looking forward to college: Life on campus, being on my own  Advice for underclassmen: Do not procrastinate, stay organized, and know your due dates. Be active in your community. “Sincere Truth”

34. Cynthia Hang  Extended Essay: Religious Influences on Medieval Artwork  CAS Activities: Volunteering at Museum Magnet school, making jewelry, tennis  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: crawling on stage instead of using the stairs at graduation  Advice for parents, underclassmen, and teachers: Don’t worry about it “ Crystalline Vision”

35. Ananda Guneratne  Extended Essay: The Measurement Problem: Schrodinger’s Cat Revisited  CAS Activities: Speech/debate, Model UN, NHS, Math team, bicycling  Advice for underclassmen: Have fun with your projects and assignments. Learning can and should be fun, not stressful.  Theme song thus far: a unnamed tune I made up that I whistle from time to time. “Renaissance Sensibilities”

36. Jerusalem Gobeze  Extended Essay: The Role of the Media in the Rwandan Genocide  CAS Activities: Tutoring, theater, knitting for a shelter  Looking forward to college: pretty much everything  Will miss about Highland: the HP Thespian Society “ Quiet and Momentous”

37. Sonal Chakrasali  Extended Essay: Symbolism in Da Vinci’s Art  CAS Activities: volunteering at Longfellow Elementary, badminton, art  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: being friends with someone after knowing them for a few minutes  Advice for parents: Trust your kids- you raised them after all! “Lithe Intellect”

38. Elizabeth Boyd  Extended Essay: Tourism- a Study of Cologne, Germany  CAS Activities: Stage crew, STLF, softball, skiing  Most valuable project in high school: the extended essay  Looking forward to college: All the different types of classes! “Practical Abandon”

39. Rose Bowen  Extended Essay: How far did the Hominid Fossil specimens ‘Lucy’ and ‘Ardi’ contribute to the scientific understanding of human evolution?  CAS Activities: Camp counselor, NHS, tennis and badminton  Favorite memory from Kindergarten: Learning songs in spanish  Advice for teachers: Make due dates very clear- keep patience with struggling students. “ Multifaceted Luminescence”

40. Kimberly Andrews  Extended Essay: The Chemistry of Luminol  CAS Activities: Soccer, Orchestra, coaching youth sports  Most valuable project: the extended essay  Will miss about HP: teachers and friends “Singular Humanitarianism”

41. Thank you, and Good Luck!