By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
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St. John Neumann's sustainable city developers, from left to right: Amanda Bello, Kristen Zagales, Michelle Accad, Connor Gonzalez, Micaela Chiang, John Cook, Mario Sanchez, Stephen Bezold, Nicolas Zinobile, Alex Tercilla, Gabriel Seiglie, Adrian Hernandez, Paula Longoria, Ryan Sanchez, Alexis Kmieck, Alexandra Daly, and Madison Fernandez.
To win, the students collaborated and worked after school for many weeks to design and build a sustainable city of the future with an emphasis on providing a comfortable living environment as well as a medical facility and innovative cure for its citizens and visitors with leukemia. The competition included development of the city using Sim City software, accompanied by an abstract and essay detailing the plans for the city, and finally building the city to scale and presenting it at the competition. The presenters were Amanda Bello, Alexandra Daly, and Gabriel Seiglie.
In other St. John Neumann news:
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This group of sixth and seventh grade students represented St. John Neumann School at the South Florida Science and Engineering Regional competition which was held at Miami Dade College North Campus. The following students were awarded with medals for their projects: Pictured, from left: Ciara Eckardt (bronze), Daniella DeeWitt (bronze), Sophia Fernandez (bronze), Sofia Fernandez (bronze), Alexandra Peterson (bronze), Melissa Navarro (silver), Gabriella Rose (bronze), Gabriella Socarras (bronze), Lucy Jones (silver), Danielle de Souza (bronze), Sophia Hernandez (bronze), and Taylor Scott (bronze).
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In honor of Martin Luther King Day, St. John Neumman School awarded its first annual Peace Prize as part of the school's Bullying Awareness and Prevention program. The Peace Prize was awarded to the students voted by their classmates as having done the most to promote peace and kindness in the school. One Peace Prize was awarded per grade. Pictured, left to right, back row: Alejandro Aguirre, Jonathan Rose, Sofia Fernandez, Catherine Lamey (Ryan Sanchez is not pictured); front row: Sophia Mesa, Isabella Fernandez, Antonella Liviero, Mia Pujol, Cecilia Seiglie, and Emily Chaffins.
