Awards/honors

The Montessori High School in Lexington has been named the state winner in the Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl. The high school recycled 30 pounds of waste per student during a one month period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15, 2013 to win Kentucky's first prize designation, which earned $1,000 for the school.

Eleven students in the veterinary assistant program at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm have passed their certification test. This nationally recognized credential for the industry is available through the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America, and Locust Trace is one of only five high schools in the country to offer this certification.

These students who are now approved veterinary assistants: Alexandra Arnold, Paul Laurence Dunbar; Phoebe Crutchfield, Lafayette; Karina Dowd, Tates Creek; Ashtin Gross, Lafayette; Addison Hodges, Lafayette; Taylor Hudson, Dunbar; Morgan Johnson, Lafayette; Lyndsey Mefford, Henry Clay; Keonna Neeley, Dunbar; Hannah Stokley, Lafayette; Sarah Taylor, Lafayette.

Three students at The Montessori High School in Lexington have been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, D.C., this month. Olivia Pederson of Lexington and Frances Werner-Wilson and William Werner-Wilson of Versailles have been selected as Kentucky representatives based on their academic achievement, leadership potential and interest in medicine.

The Congress of Future Medical Leaders is a program for high school students across the country who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields. Students who attend will learn about leading medical research and advances and medical school expectations.

University of Kentucky student Becca Clemons is one of five students who has earned top honors in the American Copy Editors Society annual scholarship program. Clemons, who will earn a journalism degree from the University of Kentucky this spring, has held copy editing and reporting internships at The New York Times, The Arizona Republic, the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. She will intern at The Seattle Times this summer.

In addition to the cash prize, winners receive financial assistance to attend ACES' 18th annual national conference, March 20-22, in Las Vegas.

For more information on the conference, got to Vegas.copydesk.org.

Austin Li and Mingxi Mao of Winburn Middle School earned the mark of distinction on the AMC 8, a 25-question, 40-minute multiple-choice math exam that promotes the development of problem-solving skills, by scoring in the top one percent nationally on the November 2013 exam. They were also Winburn's schoolwide winner and runner-up, respectively. About 150,000 middle school students from dozens of countries take this American Mathematics Competitions exam each fall, including youngsters in Fayette County Public Schools.

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