CSN student Emily Trimm has been selected as a 2014 Semifinalist in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. This is the most challenging and prestigious research-based high school science contest in the country. Being selected as a Semifinalist is an exceptional achievement. Out of the nearly 4,500 students who submitted projects to the Siemens Competition, only 408 students were named Semifinalists.
Congratulations Emily Trimm on this major accomplishment.
Eleanor Concepcion "Connie" Mariano is a Filipina American physician and former flag officer in the United States Navy. She is the first Filipino American and graduate of the Uniformed Services University of Medicine to reach the rank of Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy as well as the first woman to be the director of the White House Medical Unit.
After six months of planning and coordinating across two continents, our Spanish exchange students touched down at RSW airport at 8:39 p.m. Despite nearly 24 hours of travel, which brought them from Valencia to Paris to Detroit to Ft. Myers, our 16 guests talked excitedly (in multiple languages!) on the school bus down from the airport to the CSN campus.
Upon arriving on campus, students disembarked the bus one by one as we called out names and made personal connections with host families for the first time. It was so heart-warming to see our CSN host parents and students greet our Spanish exchange students with excited hugs and cheers Thursday night: it was like they were greeting old friends instead of meeting new ones.
Students will begin attending classes at CSN on Friday, January 9, where they will experience some new classes while continuing others that they're already taking at their school, American School of Valencia. We look forward to sharing more about their trip and how their experience not only impacts them but our own students as well. Stay tuned for more updates every few days.
After nearly one week in the states, our 16 middle and upper school exchange students from Valencia, Spain are settling in nicely. Attending a variety of classes, from studies in languages and math to AP courses and art electives, our Valencian guests are doing a wonderful job of participating in class discussions, completing homework, and even taking quizzes and tests!
Aside from their stimulating coursework, our Spanish friends also had a beach day on Sunday, a CSN cookout this week, and will be traveling to the Everglades on Friday and taking a college tour of FGCU next week. This is in addition to all the great things their host families are doing outside of the school day, which has been a great show of hospitality.
Stay tuned for some additional pictures and even video interview from our guests and host students!
9th Grade | |
| Honor Roll | High Honor Roll |
| Maria Abood | Jack Ciabaton |
| Kane Aldrich | Conner Elder |
| Alexander Askar | Davis Elder |
| Nicolas Basile | Elizabeth Golden |
| Trent Bell | Emily Hanus |
| Jordan Cloutier | Leaf Kalikow |
| Matthew Eklund | Bridget Krauss |
| Andreas Grekos | Jennifer Labs |
| Elsa Hammarskjold | Gustavo Rossello |
| Grant Harris | |
| Mary Jane Kleintop | |
| Xiaoqiao Liu | |
| Lydia Long | |
| Justin Marciano | |
| Jack McGauley | |
| Eli Melnick | |
| Benjamin Miller | |
| Brendan Moran | |
| Christopher Murphy | |
| Alexander Pappas | |
| Hunter Puzak | |
| Kristina Puzak | |
| Olivia Ramirez | |
| Anne Riter | |
| Trevor Roughan | |
| Robert Stockard | |
| Briana Sutherland | |
| Kristen Whitesell | |
| Hailey Wilson | |
| Kathryn Wulber | |
| Daniel Zuloaga | |
10th Grade | |
| Honor Roll | High Honor Roll |
| Keyvan Andres | Connor Foxhoven |
| Abigail Boles | Joseph Gaddini |
| Sabrina Cavaseno | Allison Ghuman |
| Maxwell Coleman | Kyle Hilbert |
| Robert Dampier | Jessica Lussier |
| Katja Gilman | Matthew Magardino |
| Margaret Godfrey | Camberly Moriconi |
| Zannos Grekos | Meghna Yadav |
| Juliana Grilo | Jacqueline Zeller |
| Aaron Harris | Zirui Zhou |
| Hope Heldreth | |
| Cici HuYidan Hu | |
| Paige Inslee | |
| William Kastroll | |
| Henrietta Kemppainen | |
| Domink Korunda | |
| Joseph Lang | |
| Arielle Lode | |
| Thomas Moore | |
| Gabrielle Moriconi | |
| Tiffany Morina | |
| Bruce Nakfoor | |
| Nathaniel Nascimento | |
| Ashley O'Malley | |
| McKenzie Pearson | |
| Marina Petronzio | |
| Liane Pharis | |
| Jonathan Raskauskas | |
| Kara Redcay | |
| Rachael Rich | |
| Reagan Sporn | |
| James Taylor | |
| Marcos Tejada | |
| Harriet Trimm | |
| John Trunfio | |
| John Vito | |
| Shannon Vroman | |
| Kathryn Wells | |
| Thomas Wooden | |
| Yi Xu | |
| Fengming Zhou | |
11th Grade | |
| Honor Roll | High Honor Roll |
| John Allen | Sophie Barry |
| Kathleen Bailey | Peter Bartlome |
| Gabrielle Boyar | Savannah Christensen |
| Annique Browne | Ariana Garousi |
| Jacob Buckheit | Kiril Gushterov |
| Peyton Chur | Welles Harris |
| Russell Clinton | Joel Riechers |
| Gabriela Crespo | Craig Schwerin |
| Kristina Cuello | Sydney St.Clair |
| Alyssa Danner | Benjamin Yitzhak |
| Melissa Eklund | |
| Vladislav Fomitchev | |
| Zachary Friedman | |
| Janet Guelfi | |
| Dylan Hagins | |
| Kassondra Hall | |
| Ryan Jaffe | |
| Gabriel Kralik | |
| Katherine Kurgis | |
| Victoria Landron | |
| Eli Lauber | |
| Alexandra Maxson | |
| Madison Moses | |
| Olivia Murgalo | |
| John Norkeliunas | |
| Sydney Parker | |
| Roma Patel | |
| Stephanie Paul | |
| Anna Reddish | |
| Karen Rogge | |
| George Schmelzle | |
| Emery Sereno | |
| Katherine Shipers | |
| Frank Spinelli | |
| Enrique Taboada | |
| Zhuo Tao | |
| Lindsay Tomaini | |
| Constandina Venetis | |
| Maria Vernava | |
| Ziyue Wang | |
| Olivia Weardon | |
| Alexa Weinstein | |
| Madison Weir | |
| Hannah Whitesell | |
| Tatiana Zuloaga | |
12th Grade | |
| Honor Roll | High Honor Roll |
| Melissa Arbelaez | Samuel Boies |
| Charles Badger | Taylor Bollt |
| Joseph Badra | Kara Bressler |
| Claire Bazalgette | Alexandra Casola |
| Stephen Beckmann | George Denove |
| Marguerite Bleh | Madeleine Duffy |
| Nicole Cavaseno | Katherine Golden |
| Emily Cosgrove | Ilana Goldstein |
| Gregory Donahue | Hayden Hilbert |
| Sarah Drabova | Samantha Korn |
| Kaytlyn Drouin | Nicholas Lewis |
| Lorenzo Fernandez | Bryce Morrow |
| John Flagg | Christopher Sciavolino |
| Zoey Ginsberg | Emilie Touma |
| Matthew Heldreth | Emily Trimm |
| Virginia Hodges | Jieqiu Wu |
| Liam Hollowsky | Michael Wulber |
| Kyle Jaffe | Steven Wulber |
| Abigail Kastroll | Wren Zeller |
| John Kim | |
| Kaleigh Lerner | |
| Langfeier Liu | |
| Miles Luning | |
| Lin Ma | |
| Yonaton Melnick | |
| Stephen Micelle | |
| Andrew Potter | |
| Zachary Rochette | |
| Zachary Ryan | |
| Austin Schulze | |
| Lubomir Silhavy | |
| Alina Spezio | |
| Stewart Tayon | |
| Rorie Timmins | |
| Joseph Trunfio | |
| Nicholas Yashko | |
On a chilly Friday morning, our ASV students embarked a CSN school bus and made their way toward the Everglades. To give them a taste of true Americana, we stopped at Cracker Barrel for a hearty breakfast of biscuits and pancakes, both of which were big hits. Several of their eyes got quite large when their breakfasts arrived, including one pancake dish that was covered in whipped cream. Welcome to America!
After a filling breakfast, we made our way further south until we reached Wooten's, where we proceeded to see plenty of alligators and other animals of southwest Florida. Along with an informational animal show featuring a large alligator, our Valencian guests were able to hold a baby alligator, which resulted in plenty of excitement and some nervous shrieks. Don't worry, no fingers were lost on our trip!
Finally, we boarded an airboat and took a 30 minute ride through the swamps, where we saw plenty of Mangrove trees, birds, and some more alligators. Students had a great time as the wind whipped through their hair and water misted their face.
In all, it was a great trip for our guests, as they were able to see an ecosystem unlike anywhere else in the world. Stay tuned for further updates, including our trip to visit FGCU on Wednesday!
6th Grade | |
High Honor Roll | Honor Roll |
| Prentice Elle Atterbury Abby R Ciabaton Shelby Grace Coleman Nicholas Ethan Diamond Sebastian Lambros Dounchis Imogen Drysdale Madison Feehery Lauren Mary Guerra Jordan Hochman Daniel J. Hughes Blade Rocket Kalikow Cecilia Madeleine Nakfoor George Konrad Richards Lauren Whitener Aidan C. Zimmermann | Caroline Elise Aldrich Christian Askar Brooke A Beebe Kathryn E Bianchini Avery Joseph Brown Jack B Carmignani Cristina Castillo Fengjun (Billy) Chen Kara Colon Amanda M Covelli Samuel Christopher Dedio Kathleen M. Donahue Alice M. Fowle Sara F. Goodwich Jacob Hanus Paige Harris Danielle S. Jaffe Ariana Kodad Matthew Molloy Sydney R. Schiller Jonathan Eklo Trecek Jamie Trope Grace VanOort Simon W Weardon |
7th Grade | |
High Honor Roll | Honor Roll |
| Sebastian Askar Jay Robert Beshears Michael Binkowski Jenia L. Browne Ashley A. Cruz Matt Ferrante Jillian M. Guerra Riley Kate Lamon Braden Kyle Langeloh Carsten J. Leach Alec G. Liberman | Richard George Abood, II Zachary Lindquist Barry Weston F. Blabey Julia Sadie Chernin Joseph Philip Coleman Casey Feins Raquel M. Ferreira Tia Marie Flanagan Victoria A. Gendron Samuel A. Goodwich Jackson Gregory Kernan Benjamin Korn Isabella Korunda Samantha J. Lefebvre Aidan Reese Lemarie, Jr. Izabella Leonardi William M.G. Marciano Blake V. Otto Harper Pertchik Adam Cyrus Sadaty Siena Sisi Smith Ryan M. Toth Yasemin Tuncer Mitchell Brewster Verhelle Jack L. Wiley Nikhil Yadav |
8th Grade | |
High Honor Roll | Honor Roll |
| Thomas Amendola Charlotte R. Atkins Joshua Ryan Braverman Caroline S. Buckheit Sophia Xenia Cabellon Ryan Cialone Julia Marie Covelli Bridget R Denzer Julia Ferrante Miranda E. Fiore Anabella Maria D. Galang Cameron Wolf Hochman Brooke Jaffe Emma M. Jaromin Jessica M Korn Carley L Kukk Claire E Langiulli John Thomas Magardino Allison Renee Meland Sofia Maria Nakfoor John Neumann Harrison Murray Ornstein Mary Grace Patrick Karina A. Pezeshkan Harrison S. Rogers Megan A. Sullivan Adora N. F. Terezi Julia A. Theobald Isabella G. Touma Jefferson N. Welle Elyse P. Yun | Noah Balamut Maiya Karoline Bryant Katherine Carr Stephen Thomas Casey Brandon Francis Daniels Cameron Alexis Daniels Jessica M. Day Madison L. DeHaan Emma G. Feehery Abigail Theresa Fontana Mya M Giusto Cameron Eric Goeggle Bridget Harris Kate L Joseph N. Nicholas Kemppainen Alejandro Roberto Landron Maximus E.S. Lerner Benjamin Jack MacDonald Alivia J. Massoll Ethan Miles Robert T O'Leary Steven J. Pharis Julia Kathryn Schofield Elina Sophia Schroeder Jack Stewart Carson Strohl Devin Kenneth Ullman Jake S. Weinstein Melanie Anne Wells Eleanor Mae Wood Savannah Zettler |
In the A-Team Challenge, CSN Team defeated Naples High by 245 to 85. Congratulations!
More about The A-Team Challenge- http://www.leeschoolfoundation.org/programs/stuprograms/sp-ateam/index.php
Two teams of students representing Community School of Naples recently won high honors in this year's WordWright Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry.Participating with 600 school teams across the country, the school's ninth graders tied for thirteenth place in the nation and the school's tenth graders tied for fifteenth place in the nation in the year's second meet, held in December.
Students at the school who won high individual honors in the meet included ninth grader Jennifer Labs;tenth graders Allison Ghuman, Robert DeVito, Dominik Korunda, and Brendan Nguyen; and seniors Claire Bazalgette and Kyle Jaffe.More than 60,000 students from across the country participated in the meet.
The texts for the second WordWright meet this year were a pair of poems by Wilfred Owen for ninth and tenth graders and an excerpt from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda for eleventh and twelfth graders.The students will participate in two more meets over the coming months, and medals and certificates will be awarded in June to those who achieve and/or progress the most in the course of the year.
On Wednesday, January 21st, students from the American School of Valencia traveled to Florida Gulf Coast University for a tour of the college campus. Students traveled to the Admissions Office, Athletic Facility including the basketball arena, home to Dunk City's men's and women's basketball teams, academic buildings, dormitories, food court and book store. Students compared the public university system in the United States with the public system in Spain, asked many questions about participation in collegiate sports, and were fascinated by the chance to play college quidditch, made popular by the Harry Potter series.
After an exhilarating and action-packed two weeks, it's hard to believe we said farewell to our friends from American School of Valencia last Saturday, January 24. In such a short amount of time, the bonds of friendship were demonstrated through plenty of hugs and tears as we said our goodbyes and the Valencians loaded a CSN bus back to the airport. Fortunately, CSN will be heading over to Valencia in mid-March to partake in the second half of the exchange program, so our goodbyes were only temporary.
A huge thank you for all of our incredible host families and students who have opened themselves up to such a fantastic global exchange program! The relationships formed between students of different cultures in only two weeks is a testimony to our shared humanity, and I'm excited to see and hear how these relationships blossom into lifelong friendships and memories. Stay tuned for updates on our travels in March!
ASV and CSN students gather for a group picture before departing for the airport
Sergi poses on FGCU's court, where he had been only a few days earlier to watch the team in action.
Group photo outside of FGCU
Athlete, Abby Kastroll, signed her letter of Intent to play soccer at the University of Michigan.
Nine students traveled with Mrs. Lewton to attend the 52nd Junior Science, Engineering, and Humanities Symposium at the University of Florida on January 25th.One of those students, senior 
Millie Trimm, was one of twenty-four students selected from the entire state of Florida to present her independent research project entitled "The Use of an in vitro Model to Demonstrate the Effects of the Fenton Reaction on the Pathogenesis of Age-related Macular Degeneration and Alzheimer's
Disease." Millie was also selected as a Siemen's Competition national Semifinalist! The students visited labs on campus, observed the departure of thousands of bats at dusk from the well-known bat houses, had a personal tour of the Gator Motorsports engineering facility, and listened to world-renowned scientists expound on cutting edge science research.
Last week of January, Independent Research student, Samantha Korn, competed in the Collier Regional Science and Engineering Fair. Samantha earned 1st place with her research project entitled, "How Does Media Exposure Affect Children's Schoolwork?"
Over the weekend, our two mock trial teams competed against 11 other teams throughout Collier County. Our students did amazing, and our two teams placed 1st and 3rd overall. Additional, our first place team won the award for ethics and professionalism and Kristina Cuello won the top award for Best Defense Witness. For our teams, Isabella Askar and Madeleine Duffy (our two captains) won the MVP trophies. The Naples Herald had a nice article summarizing most of this over the weekend as well (link).
Our first place team will go on to represent Collier County at the circuit-level competition in two weeks, on Feb 20-21. Special thanks to Chris Utz and Mike Mansfield for coming out this weekend to support our teams. Be sure to congratulate any of the students in the picture below who participated, and of course congratulate Jack Bovee who's our mock trial faculty sponsor and spends countless hours in the evening to hold practices!
Congratulations to the following students who are participating in the Collier County Student Art Show at The Shoppes at Vanderbilt. Come see artwork from students all over Collier County; it is an impressive gathering of artwork! The Gallery hours are from 3-6 on weekdays and 10-5 on Saturdays. The show will be up until Feb 21st. (Gallery is in Store Front #506 just opposite Pei Wei).
| PreK-4: | Kindergarten: | 1st Grade: | 2nd Grade: | 3rd Grade: | 4th Grade | 5th Grade |
| Susie Lowman | Gabriella Greenburg | Caleb Schulze | Victoria Born | Alessandra Sanchez | Bobby McNamara | Brianna Shulze |
| Ziaya Fischer | Zachary Sissman | Lily Gaston | Lucas Casey | Bianca Trope | Lilly Jones | Cooper Pertchik |
| Myles Freedman | Will Johnson | Abbey Lucas | Jelena Trika | Ella Shulze | Sammy Sissman | Isabella Garcia |
| Edward Street | Jack Maurer | Anastasia Kontos | Karl Grossman | Kelsey Gable | Veronica Torres | Sophia Pezeshkan |
| Trey Podlesny | | Gabriel Miller | Revathi Srinivasan | Luke Ferrante | | |
| | | Adrianna Carvelli | Kelly McAuley | Nikki Ferrante | | |
| | | Nicholas Street | | Tommy Lowman | | |
Our visiting St. Stephen's School students from Rome have taken no time adjusting to CSN and "la dolce vita" in Naples! After sampling some Floridian treats like key lime pie at the Ritz-Carlton's Gumbo Limbo, our Roman friends and their hosts were whisked off to one family's home for an all-American birthday pool party! Another evening was dinner at a different host's home, and then yet another pizza/pool party. More activities are planned for the weekend, including
Congratulations to Mr. Misha's Boys on the Go team - Sammy (4th grade), Trey (5th grade) and Luke (3rd grade) - for a sweep of the 10 and under age group at the 5K Bridge run on Marco Island this weekend. Luke's 1st place time: 29:12, Trey's 2nd place time: 29:58, Sammy's 3rd place time: 31:45. All three boys ran a fantastic race.
Mitch, 7th grade, came out to support the team. He finished 2nd in the 11-14 age group and 11th overall (159 runners). Great run everyone. Thank you Mr. Misha!
CSN student-athletes from the baseball team participated in the "Cut for a Cure" fundraiser for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation on Sunday, 03/22/2015.
This is a wonderful cause that is bringing hope and medical options to children with cancer. The players who attended had their heads "shaved" at the event and raised money, which was contributed to the Foundation.
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Upon arriving last week, students joined their host families and began experiencing the amazing Fallas! The first night we saw a huge fireworks show at 1:30 a.m. (yikes!), but with the time difference it didn't feel too bad. Students also had a great time walking around seeing the giant Fallas statues (over 300 of them in the city - one on nearly every block). Many also took part in lighting fireworks, which is a huge tradition among children during Fallas. We walked by children as young as two years old lighting and throwing noisy fireworks down alleys. It kept us on our toes as we navigated the streets :)
The final day of Fallas, kicked off at 2 p.m. with the Mascletas, which is an incredibly loud daytime fireworks display that focuses more on sounds than visuals. This took place in the main plaza of the city, and newspapers later said it was one of the best mascletas of all time! Later that night (hopefully after a siesta), all falla displays were burned at midnight in an event called La Crema. It's a ritual tied to renewal and rebirth, and it is always scheduled to take place right before the start of spring. Since some fallas were six or seven stories tall, the fires were enormous. The final falla burning, a giant lion in the same main plaza, took place at 1 a.m.
After all this excitement, students finally had the chance to rest and relax, with different host families having planned various activities. I know many host families got together, which gave our students a chance to hang out together. One day ASV (American School of Valencia) hosted a huge paella feast at a local restaurant on the beach. There were around 75 people, including all CSN students, ASV host families, and several ASV faculty and board members. It was a huge lunch, and we enjoyed checking in on one another and meeting the host families. Every parent we talked to had glowing things to say about our students, and they also expressed gratitude for the wonderful time we showed their children in January. After lunch and despite the overcast weather, all the ASV and CSN students played together on the beach, either walking the coast or playing soccer. It was a wonderful time together!
At last our first day at ASV arrived, and students were excited to get their schedules and begin a new routine. Cindy Preston and I are there all day to check in with students and supervise their study hall period to complete CSN homework. Soon our other chaperones Eric Miles and Diana Martin will arrive in Valencia and will meet us at the school to get a lay of the land before Cindy and I return home. I know that ASV has planned a full-day field trip which will feature touring an historical walled city, having games on the beach, and enjoying lunch together. Should be fun!
Salud!
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Dr. Eric Johnson
Upper School Dean of Academics
Community School of Naples
13275 Livingston Road
Naples, FL 34109, USA
http://www.communityschoolnaples.org/cf_media/index.cfm?g=752
CSN Chorus and drama teacher, Carolyn Greiner (pictured on the far left), sang the role of Peep-Bo for three performances in Gulfshore Opera's production of The Mikado this past month. The comedy production featured local singers as well as singers from the New York Gilbert and Sullivan company. Ms. Greiner holds a position with the company as an opera singer and youth choral director.
The changing of the CSN faculty guard for our students visiting the American School of Valencia saw Mr. Miles and Mrs. Martin taking over from Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Preston. Reports are that the city is beautiful, the teachers and students unbelievably friendly and the school bustling. Children as young as two years old take charter buses arriving for class before a 9:30am start (everything begins later in Spain!). During the day Mr. Miles observed our CSN students in the school hallways, looking completely at ease, talking with American and Spanish friends. Language has not been an issue. Our unsuspecting students seemed surprised to see members of their own faculty, speaking with all of the CSN students during their study hall periods as they keep up with their CSN homework assignments. It’s as if they have been attending ASV for years!
ASV has interviewed and filmed several CSN students regarding their experience so far. On Friday, March 27th, they are off on a field trip, visiting a medieval castle located about an hour north of the school.
