Academic All State

Congratulations to the following Knights who have been recognized by the Nebraska School Activities Association  as Academic All-State Award Winners during the 2013-2014 school year.

Cross-Country Jarrett Crnkovich Thomas Kalil	Football Will Ernst Kevin Jewell	Tennis Alex Hotovy Griffin Willer	Baseball Will Ernst Kevin Jewell
Golf Cameron Bretsen Luke Krajewski	Journalism Harrison Hohman Brian Kim	Music Eun Woo Jee Will Sleddens	Soccer Marcus Cronin Logan Larson
Track & Field Chase Goddard John Mikulicz

Nebraska School Activities Association

Knights 2nd Place Nationally in Online Competition

United States Academic Decathlon

The United States Academic Decathlon is a ten-event scholastic competition for teams of high school students. Each high school enters a team of nine students: 3 "A" or Honor students (3.750 - 4.00 GPA), 3 "B" or Scholastic students (3.00 - 3.749 GPA), and 3 "C or below" Varsity students (0.00 - 2.999 GPA).

In the small school division Mount Michael’s Academic Decathlon team placed 2nd nationally against schools from across the country.  In a score comparison of divisions, the Knights would have even placed second among the medium sized schools.

Representing the Knights in the National competition were: Jon Collins, Ben Connealy, Collin Donahue, Cameron Engel, Zach Frevert, Rowan Gruber, Alex Hotovy, Jacob Ramaekers, Adam Terasinski.

For overall individual national honors Adam Terasinski placed 2nd for a silver medal at the varsity level while Alex Hotovy placed 3rd for a bronze medal at the scholastic level.

In individual subject areas the Knights received the following:

Art:

Alex Hotovy:  1st place (scholastic)

Adam Terasinski:  2nd place (varsity)

Economics:

Benjamin Connealy:  2nd place (varsity)

Essay:

Rowan Gruber:  1st place (honors)

Jonathan Collins:  2nd place (honors)

Collin Donahue:  1st place (scholastic)

Adam Terasinski:  1st place (varsity)

Language/Literature:

Alex Hotovy:  3rd place (scholastic)

Adam Terasinski:  1st place (varsity)

Benjamin Connealy:  3rd place (varsity)

Math:

Jonathan Collins:  2nd place (honors)

Zach Frevert:  2nd place (scholastic)

Adam Terasinski:  3rd place (varsity)

Music: 

Alex Hotovy:  1st place (scholastic)

Social Science:

Alex Hotovy:  2nd place (scholastic)

Adam Terasinski:  1st place (varsity)

The team has already begun to prepare for next year’s competition. The theme for 2014-2015 season is New Alternatives in Energy: Ingenuity and Innovation.

Wayne State Math Competition

In Algebra I, Christian Burbach took 4^th place and Joe Melia took 7^th place.

In Geometry, Zach Cairney took 1^st place and Jackie Wo took 2^nd place.

In Algebra II, Edwin Huang took 1^st place.

In Pre-Calculus, Jae Jun Park took 1^st place and Fletcher Lin took 2^nd place.

In Calculus, Jonathan Collins took 1^st place and Young Joon Park took 2^nd place.

There were 23 schools at the competition.

Congratulations Knights!

2014 District Soccer Champions

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Congratulations Knights

Alum Works on Robotic Space Surgery

Mount Michael Benedictine 2007 graduate Tom Frederick is currently working with a team of graduate students on a project to perfect robotic space surgery for long term space travel.

Tom is currently a doctoral student an UNMC's Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine.

Nebraskans work on robot to do surgery in outer space

By Kate Howard Perry / World-Herald staff writer

Tom Frederick '07

Imagine a day when an explorer on Mars suffers a medical emergency, and the nearest surgeon is 35 million miles away.

Returning to Earth for treatment would take months, so preparations are being made to fix medical problems in space — and University of Nebraska researchers are working on the first step to a possible solution.

Three University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and a University of Nebraska Medical Center fellow went up on a roller coaster-like test flight with NASA last month. The flight gave the team up to 30 seconds at a time in low and zero gravity to see how miniature robots, designed to perform minimally invasive surgery, responded to the conditions. 

Read the entire Article from the Omaha World Hearld

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