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Yearbook Contest Winners Named
02/22/2012
The judges have named the winners in the 2011 Herff Jones Quill and Scroll Yearbook Excellence Contest. Congratulations to Allison Schnitker for winning the sweepstakes award in Graphics. Gold keys were awarded to Abby McDowell, Academics; Allison Schnitker, Clubs or Orginzations and Theme Development; Anna Reintjes, Feature Photo and Sports; Jessica Diaz, Graphics and Sports; Kelly McGurren Advertising; Sarah Brill, Academics; Claire Martin, Academic Photo and Grace Miller, Academic Photo.
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Diver named All-American
02/21/2012
Mary Tutera, senior diver, became the first All-American in diving in school history. By finishing 7th at the state championship she lead the Sion Swim and Dive team an 11th place finish and broke her own school record. Four school records were broken at the championship.
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Dance Team Places in National Competition
02/08/2012
Congratulations to the high school Storm Dance Team on an outstanding finish at the National Dance Team Championships. The team placed 6th in the nation in the high kick division.
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National Merit Finalist Named
02/06/2012
Congratulations to Laura Camarata who has been named a Finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program competition. As a finalist she will now be considered for one of the National Merit Scholarships offered in 2012.
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Board of Trustees Names New Head
01/20/2012
Christina Broderick has been selected as the Head of School of Notre Dame de Sion effective July 1, 2012. For more information please visit our website.
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2011 Yearbook Staff Wins Excellence Awards
01/11/2012
Congratulations to the 2011 Sion yearbook staff. The National Yearbook Excellence Contest sponsored by Quill and Scroll awarded Sion a remarkable - 13 gold keys -in the national competition and also received the national sweepstakes award in Graphic Design for the 3rd year in a row. The names of the yearbook staff members who won the gold keys have not yet been released but all 13 will be eligible to apply for the prestigious Edward J. Nell Scholarship.
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Students Names Finalists in Postcard Contest
01/04/2012
Congratulations to Sophomores Madi Lamb and Maggie Keenan for being named a top 10 finalist in the 9th thru 12 grade category of the Missouri Department of Conservations' Endangered Species Postcard Contest. The Postcard Contest challenges Missouri’s kindergarten through 12th-grade students to illustrate a postcard with pictures of endangered species or species of conservation concern that depend on Missouri’s midsized rivers, such as the Platte, the Salt and the Osage rivers.
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Australian Exchange Students Arrive
01/03/2012
The faculty, staff and students at the high school welcomed four exchange students from Our Lady of Sion in Australia when classes resumed after Christmas break. Mollie McNamara, Georgia Thomas, Caroline Bermingham and Claire Anderson will be attending classes until January 20th. This summer their hosts Marina Dennis, Ali Lampo, Hannah Malvey and Lauren Ruiz will travel to Australia.
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2 Seniors Announced Finalists by Arts Council
12/14/2011
The Arts Council of Johnson County has announced that seniors Kaitlin Heaphy and Claire Martin have been chosen as Finalists in the Shooting Stars Recognition, Scholarship and Awards Program. Presented by the Arts Council of Johnson County, the Shooting Stars Program honors high school seniors and their arts educators for artistic excellence. All participating teachers and students are honored and scholarship recipients will be announced at the 2012 Shooting Stars Gala on April 1st at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and Yardley Hall, Johnson County Community College.
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Dance Team Takes 1st Place
12/06/2011
Congratulations to the Sion Dance Team on their impressive showing at the KC Classic Dance Competition at Liberty High School on Saturday, December 3. They received 1st place in Kick and 1st place in Pom.
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Teacher Named Diamond Coach
11/22/2011
Congratulations to Kristie Pennock, speech and debate coach at the high school, who has earned the distinction of first diamond coach in the National Forensic League. Under her instruction, students have earned more than 15,000 credit points through speech and debate presentations, competition, and service.
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Le Flambeau Awarded First Honors
11/11/2011
Congratulations to the staff of Sion's 2011 yearbook, Le Flambeau. They have just been awarded First Honors from the National Scholastic Press Association for the 20ll yearbook, with three marks of distinction. The 2011 Le Flambeau was also rated All-Missouri, the highest state rating.
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Scholar Bowl Team Places 4th
11/07/2011
Congratulations to the Scholar Bowl team who, this past weekend, finished 4th place in the North Kansas City High School Novice Tournament for Freshmen and Sophomores. 18 schools from both Missouri and Kansas competed in this first tournament of the year. Participating team members included Afton Apodaca, Cory Cole, Alexandra Dykeman, Kelly Lowndes and Nicole McMindes. A special congratulations to Cory Cole who received a second place medal for individual scoring.
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Grade School Grad in the News
10/28/2011
Thomas Plackemeier, one of our grade school graduates, will be featured on Fox 4 News' Reaching 4 Excellence Young Achiever segment. An all-star with the Youth Volunteer Corps of Kansas City, tune in on Wednesday, November 2, at 9pm, to see all that he's done to help the community.
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Yearbook Students Win Awards
10/03/2011
Four Sion high school girls attended the Summer Media workshop at MU and all four students won major awards for yearbook. Maddie Roederer took 1st place in Yearbook Layout Design, Maggie Gorman took 3rd place in Yearbook Layout Design, Brittany Koppers won the "From Flat to Phat Award" for best overall yearbook design and Meghan Gordon took 1st place for Best Use of Typography.
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National Merit Commended Students Named
09/23/2011
Congratulations to seniors Mary Crowe and Rachel Fenimore for being named Commended Students in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. Commended Students placed among the top five percent of the more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2012 competition by taking the PSAT Qualifying Test last October.
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Sion Violists Perform At Kauffman Center
09/21/2011
Two of Sion’s own musicians took the stage at the phenomenal Kauffman Center for The Performing Arts Open House. Cigi Danda and Claire Martin (Sion Symphonie violists) were not only among those touring this new grand facility, but they had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be perform for the 1,600 attendees that eagerly squeezed into Helzberg Hall to hear Kansas City's Youth Symphony. An estimated 55,000 people stood in line, in the rain, some for hours to view Kansas City’s new, state of the art performing arts center. Later in the year, Cigi and Claire and the Youth Symphony will play again at Kauffman Center, this time side-by-side with the Kansas City Symphony.
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Senior Named National Merit Semifinalist
09/14/2011
Congratulations to senior Laura Camarata for being named a Semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition. Laura is one of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists chosen from the 1.5 million juniors who entered the National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state's percentage of the national total of graduating seniors. This is the 43rd year Sion has had a student recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
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Chapel of Our Lady of Sion Dedicated
08/26/2011
Nearly 100 guests attended the Dedication Mass of the Chapel of Our Lady of Sion on Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Sion welcomed five Sisters of Sion to Kansas City for this special event. They joined Board of Trustee members, alumnae, alum parents, current parents, students, faculty and staff and friends of Sion at this special event officially opening the Chapel. The Bishop of Kansas City - St. Joseph Diocese, His Excellency Bishop Robert Finn, D.D., presided at the Mass and Blessing. Following the ceremony, guests gathered in the Reintjes Family Commons for a reception. See photos from this event in our photo gallery.
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Sion Outscores State and Nation on AP Test Scores
08/12/2011
Sion high school has received news from the College Board, sponsors of the Advanced Placement Test Program, that based on the Spring, 2011 scores, 95% of Sion students taking AP tests had passing scores of 3 or higher as compared to 64% of the students in Missouri and 60% of the students nationally. Sion offers sophomores, juniors, and seniors the opportunity to take Advanced Placement college level classes. In the 2010/11 school year 129 Sion students took AP classes.
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Sion Seniors Study in Australia
08/04/2011
Six Sion seniors spent the past month of July in Melbourne, Australia studying at Our Lady of Sion College. These Kansas City girls had been hosts to their Australian Sion "sisters" in January of 2011. This is an annual exchange opportunity for Sion juniors and their families. The photo gallery has photos of their Australian adventures taken by Principal Karen Jebb.
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32 Students Receive AP Scholar Awards
08/01/2011
32 students at the high school have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on national AP Exams.
Congratulations to the following AP Scholars.
AP Scholar with Distinction - Anne Marie Albracht, Abby Bernard, Teresa Butel, Avanthi Chatrathi, Grace Daly, Katie Healy, Alexandra Keane, Sarah Kelly and Lainey Koch.
AP Scholar with Honor - Alexandra Bednar, Caroline Brain, Frances Buren, Madden Hodes, Jaime Latenser, Katherine McLiney, Avery Nickerson, Sarah Rebottaro, Francie Reintjes, Anna Selle, Sarah Stingley, Morgan Vannoy and Emily Wilborn.
AP Scholar - Emily Achelpohl, Amalia Duncan, Darby Evans, Laura Gaughan, Kylie Krizek, Katherine Love, Nicole Panis, Allison Schnitker, Abigail Wilson and Balie Zander.
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