Recent Updates

The Second Annual SJK Award Recipient

Holly Cheng

Holly graduated Horace Greeley High School in June 2020. She is planning to study molecular biology at Princeton University. In her free time, she enjoys folding modular origami and playing badminton. In her research project, she worked on using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to find a new treatment for sickle cell disease.

Holly is excited to further investigate the complexity of science

and hopes to apply science to improve future lives.

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Congratulations Holly!

On January 11, 2020 Peter Barkman,

SamSabrina's chess teacher/coach held the

2nd Annual Chess Tournament in her honor.

Holiday Trees

Just before Thanksgiving two white spruce trees were temporarily planted next to SamSabrina's tree. She loved this time of year; the cold, snow and decorating the Christmas Tree. Wildlife friendly ornaments have been and will continue to be added to the spruce trees. In the spring the trees will be added to the surrounding forest. Please feel free to stop by and visit the tree and add your own decorations.

Just saw this t-shirt at AMNH and thought about how much SamSabrina would have gotten a kick out of it.

SamSabrina's Hikes

As many of you know SamSabrina hiked many summers with her grandfather along the Appalachian Trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There are 8 huts in that region. SamSabrina and her grandfather had stayed in six of the eight. So this summer friends and family completed the adventure and hiked to the remaining 2. First, in July, friends of Nicki's hiked to Madison Hut. They shared stories about SamSabrina and left a few of the memory stones along the route. Please see the pictures. I cannot thank Chrissy and Ben enough. It was quite a commitment and an amazing act of kindness and friendship. These two are not strangers to hiking as their adventures a few years back had them climbing Mt. Washington

(highest peak in the northeast) in the winter!

In September SamSabrina's grandfather along with her mom made the climb up Mount Galehead to the last hut. Nicki had hiked the first two years with them, including to the summit of Mt. Washington, but had not hiked for a good long while. We made it! Along the way memory stones were placed and at the top some of SamSabrina's ashes were shared. Pictures of this hike

and SamSabrina's hiking adventures are on the "Picture" page.

On June 10th as part of the Senior Awards Ceremony the first SJK Award was presented to:

Max deSa

Max graduated HGHS in June 2019. He is currently studying mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, In his free time, he enjoys drawing, programming, and studying a variety of scientific topics including fluids and combustion, the latter of which he pursued in his science research project. Max looks forward to continuing exploring and finding pleasure in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

Congratulations to Max!

SCIO QUIZBOWL

June 3, 2019

The Winning Team:

Moss Piglets

HGHS Science Olympiad Team

(not all members were available)

SamSabrina truly enjoyed her time with the SCIO Team. And loved the competition and camaraderie of Quizbowl. Congratulations to the SCIO team who placed THIRD earlier this year at Regionals and made it to the Statewide Competition. This year Quizbowl was dedicated to SJK and funds raised will be donated to IRIDESCENT in her name.