20 LCS students earn AP Scholar honors

A total of 20 Lapeer Community Schools high school students have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the College Board’s Advanced Placement Exams.

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on students’ performance on AP Exams.

At Lapeer West, Anastasia Tkach earned a 4.0 grade in three classes to qualify as an AP Scholar.

At Lapeer East, Nicholas McHardy qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.

Four Lapeer East students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are Kaleb Elwert, Kyle Griffin, Aaron Moskal and Rebecca Wright.

Fourteen students at Lapeer East qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are Clayton Burke, Ashley Daniels, Joel Dewey, Jacob Lebel, Bradley McCully, Taylor McGuffie, John Nestor, Katryna Peacock, Michael Puskar, Matthew Schneider, Kathleen Sheldon, Christopher Simpson, Devin Verhulst and Caitlyn York.

Of this year’s award recipients five are juniors: Anastasia Tkach, Bradley McCully, John Nestor, Michael Puskar and Christopher Simpson. Tkach graduated at the end of her junior year, and the other four students have one more year in which to complete college-level work and possibly earn a higher-level AP Scholar Award.

The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.

International contigent of Advanced Placement teachers visit LCS Outdoor Center

On a sun-filled, warm Thursday, about a dozen Advanced Placement Environmental Science teachers trekked to Skinner Lake to work on techniques and skills for teaching AP Environmental Science courses.

The R. Michael Supernault Outdoor Education Center, a District-owned, 80-acre outdoor classroom is usually the destination of District students for science education during the school year.

Among the teachers visiting the Center on Thursday, June 18, were teachers from Chicago, Illinois, New York State, and teacher Viviana Mendoza Lozano, an AP Psychology and Philosophy teacher from La Paz, Bolivia who wants to expand her teaching into environmental science.

There were also a number of teachers from Genesee County school districts at the Center on Thursday. A total of 220 teachers will attend the Institute before it ends next week.

The first of two Advanced Placement Summer Institute sessions ends Friday. The second begins next week. Lapeer East High School is the host for the Institute and is the only public high school in Michigan offering a summer AP Institute. It is the second year, East has hosted the event.

Photo at top is a group of teachers looking through specimens pulled from Skinner Lake for study. Second photo is a picture of Bolivian teacher Viviana Lozano. To see more pictures of the teachers at Skinner Lake go to the photo gallery.