120,000 students competed for international awards and scholarships as emerging leaders and entrepreneurs at DECA's 68th Annual International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Ga. on May 3-6. Twelve Lawrence High School (LHS) DECA chapter members qualified to attend the conference and two received recognition as finalists at the international level:

Criswell Lavery - Human Resource Marketing Top 20 Finalist

Tithi Patel - Sports Marketing Finalist in Written Test

Read more about the competition here.

Twenty-two Lawrence Middle School (LMS) students participated at the state level of  National History Day competition recently held at William Patterson University. Two students earned the top spots in the Junior Individual Documentary category and an additional student was selected as alternate/runner-up, sweeping the category for LMS. One student was also selected as alternate in the Junior Paper category. The 2 winners will head to the University of Maryland beginning June 15 for the national competition. Alternates attend nationals if one of the category winners cannot attend.

Junior Individual Documentary:

Rhea Pathak (Gr. 7) - "'The Jungle' and the Consumer's Right to Safe Food"

Charlie Christoffersen (Gr. 8) - "Prohibition: The 13 Year Sobriety"

Alternate: Rebecca Jacob (Gr. 8) - "Free the Children: A Crusade Against Child Labor"

Junior Paper Category:

Alternate: Emily Mah (Gr. 8) - "One, Maybe Two, Hardly Three: The Family Planning Policy in China"

L to R: Natasha Kalwachwala, Margaret Tran, and Maria Tkacz

Additionally, one of our Junior Group Exhibits was awarded a 2nd place national prize by the National Maritime Historical Society for the students' work in helping to preserve maritime history:

Natasha Kalwachwala, Maria Tkacz, and Margaret Tran (Gr. 8) - "U.S.S. Indianapolis's Rights vs. U.S. Navy's Responsibilities."

The girls' names and exhibit pictures will appear on the Society's website and in the magazine, "Sea History."

The Arts Council of Princeton chose the work of Lawrence High School (LHS) students Leanna Smith, Vanessa Conde and Sarah Harmon Dauer to publish in an upcoming issue of aMuse, the Council's literary and art magazine. The LHS Arts and Humanities Academy recently participated in the student publication submission process. The Council will celebrate the students' achievements on June 12 in the Solley Theater at Paul Robeson Center for the Arts.

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