Omaha-area school shapes future Rwandan leaders

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Class of 2012 - Fifty-eight New Alumni

Homily by Fr. John - Talk by Dr. Peters - Senior Plans - Photos

George Townsend Commencement Address (YouTube)

The Mount Michael Benedictine School Class of 2012 is the largest graduating class in the school’s history.  The class is composed of 58 young men, exceeding the previous high of 46 of last year’s class. The average  ACT score for this class  is 28 (27.7). The average ACT score over the last 5 years is 28 (27.9).

The 58 young men of the Class of 2012 were accepted for admission to 59 colleges in 25 states.  They will be attending 26 colleges in 15 different states; 59% out-of-state and 47% in private colleges. 

Students who  were awarded some kind of scholarship totaled 76% of the students and 66% have accepted scholarships to the college they plan to attend in the fall.

The Class of 2012 was offered $ 5,842,864 of scholarship money and they will utilize $ 2,345,840 (40%) of the scholarship money offered.  Both of these totals are record amounts for Mount Michael Benedictine School.

Wayne State Math Contest Results:

Wayne State Math Contest Results: Congratulations Knights

Group Photo

Algebra 2 1st Place: Young-Joon Park 2nd Place: Brian Kim	Geometry 1st Place: Jonathan Collins 5th Place Josh Adams
Pre-Calculus 1st Place Yoon Ho Kim (Tie) 7th Place Tony Gao	Calculus 1st Place John Choi 3rd Place Albert Park

National Language Exam Results

National Spanish Exam

Gold 95th-100th Percentile Josh Adams, Marcus Cronin, Cameron Engel, Thomas Kalil	Silver 85th-94th Percentile Matt Bohnhoff, David Choi, Jin Seo Kim, Jared Mikuls, Young Joon Park, Lucas Tucker, Andrew Johannes, Lukas Buehler, Hyo Bin Im, Songa Rugangazi, Joseph Stellato
Bronze 75-84th Percentile Cameron Bretsen, Rowan Gruber, Eun Woo Jee, Andrew Pace, Ryan Degener, Harrison Homan, Alex Hynes, John Mikulicz, Kyle Silke, Griffin Willer, Marty Anderson, Peter DeWald, Paul Kujawa, Nate Van Haute	State Medalists Freshmen: Bronze Medalists, Marcus Cronin 4th, Josh Adams 5th, Harrison Homan 3rd, Jonathan Alvine 5th Sophomores: Gold Medalist 1st: Thomas Kalil, Silver Medalist 2nd: Cameron Engel, Bronze Medalists:4th Andrew Johannes, 5th Ryan Degener. See Complete Results

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National French Exam

Freshmen 1A Jacob Peffer 1st State; 2nd National Jonathan Collins 2nd State; 3rd National Moonsup Kim 5th State; 5th National Keenan Reilly 5th State; 6th National Alex Hotovy 10th State; 12th National Freshmen 1B (Outside Experience) Sam Hiemerman 8th State; National 8th	Sophomore 2A Will Sleddens 1st State; National 8th Collin Donahue 2nd State; 9th National Matt Okalebo 9th State; 17th National Jacob Eyth 10th State; 18th National Sophomore 2B (Outside Experience) Kevin Jewell 1st State; 4th National Will Earnst 5th State; 13th National
Seniors 4A Michael Collins 1st State; 15th National John Byrne 2nd State; 16th National Tyler Bolden 3rd State; 17th National George Townsend 4th State; 18th National Ned McNally 6th State; 20th National	See Complete Results

State Trap-shooting Meet

Congratulations  Lumir Drahota!

At the State Trapshooting Meet held in Doniphan, Nebraska Lumir Drahota won 2nd place as an individual at the 24-25 yard range. 

Rugangazi receives Mount Michael Benedictine Award

At the Annual Awards Night ceremony Songa Rugangazi was presented the Mount Michael Benedictine Award from Head of School Dr. David Peters. Songa was selected by the faculty through secret ballot as the student who best represents the ideals of Mount Michael Benedictine.

Songa is the son of Ben and Mary Rugangazi of Rwanda. He has been accepted to numerous schools for next fall including George Washington University, Purdue University, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Songa has decided to attend Purdue University where he will major in industrial engineering.

Other notable awards announced at the ceremony were Thomas Feichtinger with the Key Staffer award for Journalism, Rowan Gruber and Scott Townsend with the Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Award, Andy Johannes with the Exchange Club Sophomore of the Year award, Joe Kucirek for Boy’s State, and the Saint Benedict Award for Ministry to Sean Kruger and Lucas Buehler.