See Who Made the Watertown High School Honor Roll

The following students made the third quarter honor roll at Watertown High School. Ninth Grade

High Honors
Alexander Abrahamyan
Lelean Aljaja
Amelia Allison
Madiha Begum
Joseph Chau
Nicholas Cordeiro
Caroline Costa
Robert Danielian
Hadi Farhat
Bryan Ferreira
Claire Gabel
Anna Gellerman
Natali Gevorgyan
Siobhan Greene
Salvador Guevara
Melanie Halibian
David Inacio
Didar Jajan
Emily Koufos
Amanda Lewis
Spencer McClellan
Anahid Ohanyan
Jeremy Ornstein
Sarah Pardo
Lauren Petrillo
Elizabeth Powderly
Kian Rice
Mariam Roda
Sergio Salas
Destiny Santalucia
Ana Scott
Rubina Simikyan
Dora Tejada
Kaitlin Tracy
Honors
Hakeem Alhady
Mosab Amleh
Sarah Benites
Gabriella Cacia
Liz Cam
Timothy Camelio
Gabriel Cimino
Julia Cottone
Nelziclea Da Silva
Daniel Fabrizio
David Frabrizio
Alexander Feltner Harrison
Meghan Foley
Julio Fulcar
Jacquelyn Furbish
Valentina Gaete Hurtado
Owen Gallagher
Elder Guevara
Miles Hohmann
Jonna Kennedy
Elizabeth Knell
Christopher Koufos
Katherine Lawn
Jaime MacDonald
Zachery Mazzie-Smith
Diego Moscoso
Jeanie Ngan
Taylor Nygren
Stella Papadopoulos
Catherine Papayannopoulos
Tia Pellegrini
Stellios Pistoftzian
Ayah Rahim
Darlyn Ramirez
Wenston Rodriguez
Molly Ryan
Christine Saroufim
Tigran Shahnazaryan
Brianna Sullivan
Timothy Tat
Isabella Vitti
Albert Yildirim

10th Grade
High Honors
Evamarie Alessandroni
Catherine Bedig
Daniel Carito
Julia Dunoyer
Michael Guyumdzhyan
Leslie Kay
Jenna McMahon
Shannon Murphy
Jillian Russo
Alex Smith
Joseph Tardif
Janaki Thangaraj
Sella Varnum
Olivia Venezia
Honors
Sajda Abbas
Mahdi Alhady
Brian Amedio
Faryal Amin
Genrikh Askaryan
Maria Athanasopoulos
Robert Belli
Larissa Bittencourt
Lauren Burns
Anthony Cardarelli
Samuel Carton
Alexan Cinar
Christina D’Agostino
Sofia DiPace
Maskim Doe
Aurora Fidler
Nicole Frisoli
Colin Gardiner
Sarah Greim
Artem Grigoryan
Ian Groh
Sara Gyulakian
Helene Hoxha
Isaac Huff
Sabir Hussain
Kaysa Jinan
Nareg Kalaydjian
Rosdom Kaligian
Yasir Khan
Stefanos Kiorpes
Eli Krieger
Lance Kuo
Catherine LeBlanc
Tatum Lee
Benjamin Lowry
Thayna Marcos
Hovig Margosian
Karina McAdam
Parsa Medhati
Ryan O’Reilly
Marina Osipova
James Piccirilli
Vasiliki Pistoftzian
Talene Pogharian
Max Potseluev
Ruby Rosenwasser
Lori Shrinian

11th Grade
High Honors
Tyler Gardiner
Julia Harrington
Jeremy Holt
Sabiha Khalid
Sarah Lampasona
Erika Libertini
Austin Lin
Joanna Lopez Ordonez
Lillian Pennington
Christopher Rohlicek
Honors
Valeria Aedo
Kareem Alhady
Olivia Almeida
Danila Alyokhin
Jaime Amedio
Mark Amirbekyan
Michaela Antonellis
Nelli Balian
Tawhid Bibi
Dominika Bondaryk
Jeremy Breen
Thomas Brennan
Matthew Busconi
Niko Carvajal-Janke
Ryan Clancy
Lola Dement Myers
Grace Duguay
Barry Dunn
Karl Elbakian
Sofia Farhadi
Kyle Foley
Karina Franca
Sara Fulton
Jaslyn Gomez-Jobson
Michael Gorman
Briana Guillory
Sasha Helfner
Jason Hughes
Abboud Kaouk
Allyson Kazanjian
Robert Kennedy
Christa Knell
Ruth Komukyeya
Nicole Lanzo
Farid Mawanda
Ally McCall
Hannah McCall
Daniel McCurley
Steven Mey
Riyan Moore
Molly Munger
Nathan Nibiye
Cristopher Patvakanian
Sean Peschier
Kira Peterson
Katelyn Rourke
Arshdeep Singh
Samantha Smith
Layza Souza
Leah Sutherland
Samantha Tat
Katherine Tolman
Yesayi Tolmoyan
Jason Wilkins
Grigor Yeghishyan

12th Grade
High Honors
Kashif Ahmad
Tessa Collins
Jeffrey Comeau
Ghislaine Coulter-de Wit
Molly Day
Alec Deyermanjian
Keegan Duguay
Austin Farry
Christopher Fidler
Shannon Foley
Samuel Ford
Nicholas Girodano
Michael Hagopian
Dana Hammerle
Rebecca Hellman
Yvef Jorge Almonte
Melanie Kahn
Noreen Khan
John Kupelian
Kayla Lawlor
Crista Logakis
Nathaniel Munson-Palomba
Nicholas Ohannesian
Rebecka Riendeau
Jake Roche
Gina Stanizzi
Aashma Sunuwar
Tinhinan Touri
Honors
Olivia Ames
Jody Askaryan
Jonathan Azevedo
Brendan Berkeley
Taquina Cachimuel
Rachel Campbell
Lisa Carcerano
Emily Carito
Gemma Carroll
Pluksaa Chueayoonan
Siran Cinar
Samuel Cohen
Gianna Coppola
Alexandra Doggett
Matthew Dolan
Demetri Dorceus
Shayna Farmelant
Isaac Fitts-Sprague
Kayla Furbish
Eric Furtado
Jared Grillo
Erin Hickey
Abid Hussain
Kayla Johnson
Jessica Lai
Bishal Mishra
Jamilah Monroe
Jillian Mungenast
Kaitlyn Murphy
Matthew Murphy
Thomas Perry
Clarissa Phillips
Julia Thompson
Charlotte Vitti
Arooj Zahid

Watertown High School’s KwarQs More Than Just Robotics

The Watertown High School robotics team wrapped up their season, but the group continues to stay active in robotics and other ways. 

The team had competitions at UMass-Dartmouth and at Northeastern this year. The team did not qualify for nationals, but that is a goal in the future, said WHS junior Nate Ryan told the School Committee last week. The team did not go without recognition, however. The team got an award for imagery for the design of their banner, and at another competition they got the safety award, said junior Jaslyn Jobson. “We had a safety kit, and many other teams did not have them, so we passed them out to other teams that did not have safety kits,” Jobson said.

Watertown Eighth-Grader Met the Governor, Ran Kids Clothing Drive

Eighth-grader Honor Petrie was chosen to represent all of Watertown Middle School in a statewide event – Project 351 – where she got to meet Gov. Charlie Baker. This spring, she organized a clothing drive at the school that collected dozens of bags of clothes to give to Cradles to Crayons, a children’s charity. 

Watertown News asked Petrie about her experiences as Watertown’s ambassador to Project 351 and her clothing drive. Q: How were you chosen to represent Watertown Middle School for Project 351, and why did you want to become an Ambassador? A: I hadn’t ever heard of Project 351 until I was called down to the office one day at school, and my principal (Mr. Carter) explained to me what Project 351 is, and why I was chosen to be Ambassador. I was really surprised and so excited.

Revels Joining Perkins School for Free Celebration of Spring

Celebrate the coming of spring with a free concert featuring the Revels and students from Perkins School for the Blind. The concert will be held on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. in Dwight Hall at Perkins School for the Blind’s, 175 N. Beacon St., Watertown. Admission is FREE

This hour-long performance of seasonal music and dance will feature the Perkins School Secondary Program Chorus (Arnie Harris, director), The Revels Singers, song leader and musician David Coffin, guest soloists and a great band of musicians. And it wouldn’t be a Revels celebration of spring without morris dancing and a visit from the ancient and mysterious Padstow ‘Obby ‘Oss, all the way from Cornwall, England! “Revels’ partnership with Perkins School for the Blind these many years has been rewarding for all of us in so many ways.

Watertown’s PEP Grant Touches Far More than Gym Classes

The Watertown Public Schools have got an influx of more than $500,000 into the schools to improve the fitness and wellness of children in town. The money came from the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) grant, and much of the focus has been on improving physical education classes (see details here). But that is not the only benefit of the three-year grant, Director of Wellness and Extended Services Donna Ruseckas told the School Committee. The Recreation Department and the Boys and Girls Club of Watertown have also received equipment as part of the grant. Ruseckas said she plans to put in fitness activities around Watertown’s schools for children and their families.

School Committee Member Wants System for Electives at WHS More Fair

Getting into elective classes at Watertown High School can be challenging, and some freshmen do not get any of their choices, but one School Committee member wants to change that. 

During a discussion of the Watertown High School handbook, School Committee member Julie McMahon said students can list their top five choices for elective classes, but some unlucky WHS students don’t get any of their classes. She who has a freshman at the high school. “Electives are the things that children are attracted to,” McMahon said. “They may be interested in video, but it might be filled.” The “luck of the draw” freshman year has a snowballing effect later, she said.

Dancing With the Stars Brings in $20,000 for the Watertown Education Foundation

The Watertown Education Foundation (WEF) raised $20,000 at its second annual, “Dancing with the Stars” event held on Friday, May 1 at the Hellenic Cultural Center. This year, Kendra Foley, a Hosmer School parent, took home the trophy for her upbeat Bollywood number, performed with her partner, Harrison Wright of Arthur Murray Dance Studio, Boston. They received a perfect score of 30 from the judges. Armand Keuchkarian, Watertown Middle and High School parent was awarded the Fan Favorite trophy, for his performance with Avalon Dance & Fitness’ Beth Canuel. “More than 400 people attended the event this year; that is almost double the number of last year’s attendees,” said Amy Donohue, WEF co-president.