YOUTH ON THE GO
The Mighty Pawns chess team of St. Joseph School
in Kingston placed sixth in the Middle School Division and tied for ninth in the Primary Division of the New York State Chess Championships in Saratoga Springs the weekend of Sept. 11 and 12. Seventeen Mighty Pawns played in a field of more than 1,200 chess players from around the state. Team members included, from left, Connor McKenna, Andrew Brucker, Daniel Brucker, Sebastian Stote, Ryan McKenna and Coach Karen Merker.
••• Onteora High School students Kira Daniels and Kalo Talley finished first and second, respectively, at the regional Poetry Out Loud competition at the State University of New York at Oneonta on Feb. 8.
Daniels, a junior, recited “Backdrop addresses cowboy” by Margaret Atwood, “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns and “Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” by William Shakespeare. Talley, a senior, recited “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke, “The Glories of Our Blood and State” by James Shirley and “A Celebration of Charis: I. His excuse for Loving” by Ben Jonson.
Daniels and Talley advanced to the New York State Recitation finals in Syracuse.
••• Mill Street Loft, an artseducation organization in Poughkeepsie, announced that students of the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft received more than 100 awards at the 2016 Hudson Valley Scholastic Art Awards, a competition produced by the Hudson Valley Scholastic Art Awards Consortium.
Institute students received 71 Gold and Silver Key awards, two American Vi-
sions and 50 honorable mention awards. Gold and American Visions winners will go on to a national competition in which they will compete with winners from more than 100 affiliates nationwide. Art Institute students received awards in the following categories: Sculpture, mixed media, portfolio, photography, digital art, film and animation, painting, and drawing and illustration. A Winners Exhibition was displayed at the Rotunda Gallery at the State University of New York at New Paltz from Feb. 3-24.
Winning students from the Art Institute included
Chloe Mosbacher of New Paltz High School, Charlotte Howard of Rhinebeck High
School, Yanlam Ko and Isabel Long, both of Spackenkill High School; Abigail Scesney and Anthony DiBattista, both of John Jay High School; and Maxwell
Von der Horst of Warwick High School. Other winners from the Art Institute were
Eloisa Morales, James Tedesco and Alexandra Harris, all of Arlington High School; Alexandra Harris of Arlington High School, Emilia Ricciardi of Port Jervis High School, Kailee Gorr of Livingston Manor High School, and Rachel Brainerd and Sofia Creanza, both homeschooled.
••• Eight Ulster BOCES students from five local school districts came in first, second and third during career-specific competitions at the SkillsUSA regional competition at Rockland Community College on Jan. 19.
The students excelled in the categories of information technology, internetworking, job skill demonstration year 1, residential wiring, prepared speech and related technical math. Students from Ulster, Orange, Sullivan, Rockland and Westchester counties took part in the annual event.
Kingston High School students Sebastian Dugan and Christopher Garrison each turned in first-place performances. Dugan was first in the internetworking category. Garrison was first in the residential and wiring category.
Second-place finishes were achieved by Christopher Osterhoudt of Kingston High School, Ethan Torres of New Paltz High School and Angelina Violante of Wallkill High School. Osterhoudt was in the internetworking category, Torres was in the information technology services category and Violante was in the job skill demonstration year 1category.
Coming in third place were Ian Morse of Saugerties High School, Kaitlyn Kortright of Rondout Valley High School and Moshe Katzin-Nystrom of New Paltz High School. Morse competed in the information technology category. Kortright was entered in the related technical math category. Katzin-Nystrom was in the prepared speech category.
The students qualified to compete at the SkillsUSA State Competition in Syracuse from April 26-28.
••• Twelve area high school students were named recipients of the Tuskegee Airmen Maj. Gen. Irene Trowell-Harris Chapter’s annual tuition-assistance awards.
The students were Alyssa Mast of New Paltz High School, Bryson Nieves of Warwick Valley High School, César Micklick and Alexander Wolf, both of Valley Central High School; Jennifer Sandoval of John S. Burke Catholic High School, Kristen Henry of Cornwall Central High School; and Bryson Nieves of Warwick Valley High School; and Adelson Aguasvivas, Tyjeer Carruthers, Suetanya Euter, Yamilet Gonzalez, Miracle James and Jonathan Perez, all of Newburgh Free Academy.
The awards are $1,000 each. The awards were presented at the chapter’s annual gala dinner at Anthony’s Pier 9 in New Windsor on Feb. 4