Carroll artists win 15 Scholastic Art Awards, 3 Gold Keys in 2023
Eight Archbishop Carroll High School students combined to win 15 Scholastic Art Awards, including three Gold Keys and one special award nominee, in the 2023 competition.
Senior Isabella Olivas' oil painting 937 earned a Gold Key Award as well as a nomination for the “American Voices and Visions Award”. Each regional program nominates five students for this award, and nominees must have a Gold Key work with an original, authentic voice or vision, and the representation of diverse mediums, viewpoints, and backgrounds. National jurors will select one nominee from each region for the American Voices or Visions Award. One of Isabella's other oil paintings, Sense Number 5, earned an Honorable Mention.
Two other Carroll artists, Emma Williams ‘23 (Solitude - Oil) and Ally Walls ’25 (Homerun - Acrylic) also won Gold Key Awards for their pieces. Walls also earned a Silver Key Award (A Scents of Summer - Acrylic) as well as the “The Da Vinci Award”. This award is presented by the K12 Gallery Board of Directors which curates the regional Scholastic Art Awards. Each winning piece that placed in the regional competition is reviewed, and one recipient is selected out of all of the winners to receive this award.
Walls', Olivas', and Williams' Gold Key awarded works will go on to the National Scholastic Art Awards adjudication in March and have the chance to be displayed in the National Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition in New York, as well as the opportunity to attend the awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall. Williams piece, The Freedom of Being Young, was chosen for the national exhibit in 2022.
“I am extremely pleased with the number of students that received awards this year from the regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards,” Visual Art Department Chair Renee Merland said. "I'm very hopeful that we will receive another national award this year. We have some very talented artists to choose from!"
Tessa Zimmerman ‘25 (Sprite Cranberry - Colored Pencil) and Harry Chen ’23 (Tranquilation - Oil) also won Silver Key Awards.
Samantha Yates ‘23 (How Time Flies - Colored Pencil), Chen (Ruins - Pen and Ink; Copper Heart - Pen and Ink, Marker), Zimmerman (She Stares - Chalk Pastel; Of Dust - Charcoal), Abby Noss ’23 (Birds of a Feather - Charcoal; Bird's Life - Oil), and Alex Moore '24 (Drawing in a Mask - Watercolor, Pen) also earned Honorable Mentions.
High School student creates ‘Project Scam Protectors’ to educate people on phone scams
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Sydney Ramsey, A junior at Archbishop Carroll High School and member of Girl Scout troop 32513, developed a project aiming to educate people on different types of scams and how to avoid them, according to Huber Heights Police Division Public Affairs Officer Lambert.
She calls it, “Project Scam Protectors.”
Ramsey stopped by the Huber Heights Police Division (HHPD) Tuesday afternoon to drop off the pamphlets she developed for the department to use and handout, Officer Lambert said.
Three groups of Carroll students team up with Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to raise money for cancer research
Three groups of Carroll students are joining the fight against blood cancers and vying for the title of Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Student of the Year by raising funds for life-saving research.
LLS, the world's largest nonprofit fighting blood cancer, awards the title of Student(s) of the Year to the candidate or co-candidates in each community who raises the most funds during the competition. These Carroll students have seen the impact of blood cancers firsthand and are participating in the fundraising initiative to put an end to these diseases.
Brooke Grieshop '22
I decided to run for Student of the Year through the LLS in honor of my mom, Ellen Mason Grieshop, and my grandma, Marilyn Hohm Grieshop. Within the past two years, I have suffered through two events that have changed my outlook on cancer entirely. A few months ago, during this crazy COVID time, my grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer. After having many scans done, the doctors had determined that the cancer had traveled to her brain in many areas. She was in the process of battling cancer when she contracted COVID, and this lead to her passing. At that moment, I saw how cancer can take a loved one away from you. I saw first hand how cancer has a drastic impact on the patients and the family as a whole. Almost two years ago my mom was killed in a tragic car accident, which caused her to go into a coma and lose her life nine days later. This showed me how tomorrow isn't promised and how thankful we need to be for our family. My mom lived in constant fear of becoming the next cancer patient, as she lost both her parents before the age of eighteen due to cancer. I am convinced that God took my mom away to save her from having to go through the battle that is cancer and saving me from seeing her like that, as she once saw her own parents. If I reach 50,000 dollars, I can name a research grant after these two wonderful women. Let's put an end to cancer. Thank you!
McKenna Lange '23, Paxton Clark '23, and Hannah Wagner '23
We encourage you to join us in supporting LLS by making a donation to our fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. Our appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.
As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.
Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.
Bailee Bolton '24
Hello, I’m Bailee Bolton, and I'm running for Student of the Year. My goal this year is to raise at least $10,000, and with your help, I can! I’m in this campaign because I watched a friend of mine go through leukemia, and it was so tough to watch his family struggle and try their best. I also just want to run for this amazing campaign since it is such an amazing cause and helps millions around the world. I want to be part of the difference we are going to make!
Twins Times Two -- a new set of Bartlett sisters begin their Carroll careers as older sisters graduate
Many younger siblings of Carroll students desire to create their own individuality while having to navigate through sibling comparisons. When the Bartlett twins begin their high school careers this fall, they are already prepared to be compared to the “Bartlett twins”.
Incoming freshmen Mikayla and Elyssa Bartlett ‘24 have been looking forward to starting their journeys as Patriots, especially after seeing their identical twin sisters, Victoria and Olivia ‘20, and brother, Nathan ‘23, enjoy their time at Carroll. In their excitement, Mikayla and Elyssa, also identical twins, are already preparing to tackle any confusion that may happen the first few days of school, as it has happened throughout their lives. “Elyssa and I are taller than Olivia and Victoria, so people often think we’re the older set of twins,” states Mikayla. “People also think that Elyssa, Nathan, and I are triplets… because we all look alike.”
Along with the twin confusion, both sets of Bartlett twins are used to receiving often strange questions from peers who have not experienced life with a twin. Olivia, for example, has fielded questions regarding whether or not she can telepathically communicate with her twin, Victoria. Both sets of twins have answered their share of unique questions. “I know people are just curious about twins,” said Mikayla. “It’s funny sometimes, interesting to hear what people have to say.”
“I love having an older set of twin sisters. They’re my role models, and I want to be like them when I grow up.”
-Mikayla Bartlett '24
For their older sisters, it took some time to get used to the new twins in the family. “They took all the attention away from us, recalls Olivia. “They were the new, younger grandchildren. Everyone else had thoughts like, ‘A second set of twins? That’s fascinating!’ But it’s been a really good time growing up with them. Us five siblings are really close, and they obviously understand the twin thing, the twin bond.”
Mikayla and Elyssa feel fortunate to have older sisters who have shared those same experiences. “I love having an older set of twin sisters,” Mikayla said, “They’re my role models, and I want to be like them when I grow up.”
Having graduated this past spring, Victoria and Olivia are ready to start their college careers at Wright State University. Though they ended up choosing the same university, they are pursuing different majors, as Olivia plans on studying chemistry and environmental sciences and Victoria is majoring in Spanish education. Both are looking forward to college and anticipating some adjustments, as this will be the first time taking different courses than their twin. “We’ve lived our lives with a built-in best friend,” Victoria says, “We’re not going to be able to share...all the same experiences.”
Though they are headed down different courses of study this fall, Olivia and Victoria agree that their younger sisters are going to enjoy their time at Carroll, both in and out of the classroom. And, having witnessed their sisters’ love of Carroll school spirit, especially at football games, House events, and Catholic Schools Week activities, Elyssa and Mikayla are ready to join the Patriot family and carry on their older siblings’ legacy. “(Olivia and Victoria) are known for being nice to everyone, and I want to continue that,” says Mikayla. “(They) were always referred to as The Bartlett Twins, so I’m excited to be that now.