Johns Hopkins’ Talent Search Honors Area 5th-7th Graders

Several Inland Northwest students in the fifth through seventh grades were honored last spring for outstanding verbal and/or mathematical abilities.

They were among more than 1,000 students nationwide to participate in a talent search conducted by the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth at Johns Hopkins University, co-sponsored by the University of Washington’s Halbert Robinson Center for the Study of Capable Youth.

To qualify, fifth- and sixth-grade students had to score at the eighth- and ninth-grade levels; and seventh-grade students had to score at the 12th-grade level.

The students are listed alphabetically by their hometown, school and the grades they were in when they were tested:

Chattaroy: Tyler Gray, Riverside Middle School, seventh grade.

Cheney: Joseph Gosse and Billy Weisgerber, seventh; and Maria Jabon and Julie Teuton, sixth, all Cheney Middle School.

Colbert: Patrick Bradley, St. Thomas More, seventh.

Elk: Alexander Hallenius, Debra Lynch and Virginia Seganos, seventh, all Riverside Middle School.

Liberty Lake: Meghan McGarry, Central Valley School District, seventh.

Mead: Jack McKinnon, Trinity Elementary, fifth; and Brian Reyes, seventh; Northwood Jr. High.

Spokane fifth graders: Christine Beamer, Kelly Boubel, Ariel Grubb, Eric Haskins, and Michael McKay, all of Hutton; Katherine Ditton, Christina Higgins and Keaton Stagman, all of Cataldo; Matthew Kries, St. Patrick; Brian Birgenheier, Colin Sowder, Riley Steiner and Avi Zellman, all of Jefferson; Austen Zajonc, Freeman; and Jamie Zink, Seth Woodard.

Spokane sixth graders: William Brown, Trinity Elementary; Daniel Brutocao, Joseph Parisot and Shen Hunt, all of Cataldo; Cassie Finer, Jefferson; Christopher Halvorson, Hutton; and Taylor Nash, Franklin.

Spokane seventh graders: Casey Barratt, Trinity; Hannah Bartholomew, Kevin Breaux, Stacey Driscoll, Jacob Farley and Megan Overbay, all of Northwood Junior High; Matilda Beadling, Erin Feltman, Christopher Grubb, Jonathan McClain and Julie Witherspoon, all of St. George’s School; Ross Brower, Rocco Delaurentis, Lydia Eberly, Christopher Holmes, Mark Johnson and Patrick Weise, all of Central Valley School District; Jim Bowles, St. Mary’s; Michael Fealk and Anne Winchell, both of Sacajawea. Andrew Fuchs and Siriporn Shadduck, both of St. John Vianney; Tara Heitman, Assumption; Laura Hodgson, Stephanie Salee, William Stone and Michael Zarate, all of Salk; Alexander Johnson, Centennial Middle School; Cooper Jones, Chase Middle School; Mary Kries, Saint Patrick’s; David Rinehart, Robert Weiskopf and Lauren Zeck, of All Saints Middle School; and Zachary Skaw, St. Mary’s.

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