Sojourner Glasgow, 18, of Plainsboro took third place in the Basic Masonry category at the the N.J. State SkillsUSA Competition on April 8. The event was held at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset.
Glasgow is a student in the Mercer County Technical School District. The N.J. SkillsUSA Championships is the state-level competition for high school and post-secondary students who are enrolled in career and technical education training programs within the state.
As part of the masonry competition, students constructed a composite brick and block project in a six-hour period that tested their ability to meet industry standards in quality. In addition to a written exam, the critical eye of journeyman judges was a deciding factor in determining the winners. The contest project included components of the most frequently used details in residential construction.
South grad teaches ethics in India
Marco Kaisth, a 2016 High School graduate who is currently doing a gap year, spent four months volunteering at a research institute in Northern India teaching secular ethics to Tibetan refugee children.
He is currently in southern Jamaica, near Lioneltown, working on coastal and mangrove conservation issues. He has been admitted to the University of Chicago starting fall 2017. His article, “Eating Stupid Pigs,” questioning if radical genetic engineering could create ethical factory farms, was published in the April/May 2017 “Philosophy Now” journal.
In College
Lafayette College: Jessica Pe and Margaret Slonaker, both of Princeton Junction, were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester.
Marist College: Bryn Gorberg of Princeton Junction, a member of the Class of 2017, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester. She is majoring in fashion design.
Miami University: Craig Byll of Plainsboro graduated on Dec. 13 with a bachelor of arts degree, majoring in political science.
Rochester Institute of Technology: The following students made the dean’s list for the 2016 fall semester: Emma Fleming of Plainsboro, who is studying in the graphic design program; Roshni Barodia of Plainsboro, who is studying electrical engineering; Veronica Santoso of Plainsboro, who is studying industrial design; and Andreia Cadar of Princeton Junction, who is studying bioinformatics.
University of Illinois: Plainsboro resident Angelica Menezes was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester. She is studying finance at the school.
University of Rochester: Plainsboro resident Chaitanya Narayanan Natarajan, a junior majoring in business and applied music at the University of Rochester, has been named to the dean’s list for academic achievement for the 2016 fall 2016. He is studying in the university’s College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering as well as in the Eastman School of Music.
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