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Class Notes in a row. Across sports, Brian was one of 13 athletes named to the Capital One Academic All-America. To see videos of Brian's amazing routines go to: www.ncaa.com/news/ gymnastics-men/article/2014-04-12/i-team and www.usagym.org/pages/athletes/athleteListDetail.html?id=348557. Jonathan Dahm Robertson received a Kennedy Center Fellowship in theater design, working with the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Jonathan, who graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Scenic Design in 2015, is also Resident Assistant Scenic Designer at Theater J, and has been a scenic intern at Weston Playhouse Theatre Company 2. He has designed four sets for the Horace Mann Theatre Company's alumni plays. To view images of his phenomenal sets for theater and dance, and learn about Robertson's own scenic design company go to https://jrobport.carbonmade.com. Sophie E. Miller was one of 14 Americans "of exceptional ability and outstanding achievement" awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study Courtesy Sophie Miller at the University of Cambridge in England for one year. Sophie, who majored in chemical engineering at Stanford University and graduated in 2015, pursued a master's degree (by research) in chemical engineering and biotechnology at Cambridge, where she tested the in vivo and in vitro performance of selected metalorganic frameworks, a novel family of nanoporous materials, as drug delivery agents for cancer therapeutics. Sophie stated that she was thrilled to have the opportunity to pursue her passion for cuttingedge research at Cambridge, to meet fellow Churchill Scholars, new students and professors, and to travel around the United Kingdom and Europe. "From my experiences over the past few years, I have come to realize how great of a role collaboration plays in research, and the importance of building international bridges to promote the exchange of scientific ideas," she wrote. Joining the Bao Research Group as a research assistant in her sophomore year at Stanford, during the summer of 2013, she conducted research at the California Institute of Technology funded by Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. She has presented and received awards at various national and regional conferences for her work fabricating nanoparticle-decorated porous materials that show promise as next-generation membranes for the production of hydrogen fuel via water splitting. In 2014 Sophie won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, established by the U.S. Congress in 1986 and given to outstanding sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue basic research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Also in 2014, Stanford awarded her an Undergraduate Advising and Research Major Grant to conduct an independent research project in the Bao lab for her honors thesis. Miller was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering society, as a junior and led peer mentorship efforts through the society. As an officer of Stanford's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, she planned similar peer advising events for chemical engineering students. Sophie also plays the baritone and alto saxophone, was a four-year member of the Stanford Jazz Orchestra, and served as its president from 2012-2015. 2015 as an outfielder with the New York-Penn League State College Spikes, in State College, PA, Bader racked up stellar stats and, by the end of his first week was advanced to the Chiefs, the Cardinals' affiliate in Peoria, Ill. Playing center field for the Chiefs he helped the team clinch a playoff spot, and was named Midwest League Player of the Week for the week of August 24-30, 2015. In seven games that week Bader hit .448 (13-for-29) with two home runs, six RBI, one double and two triples, and was chosen The Cardinal Nation's (TCN, a respected blog site) Peoria Player of the Year. In October 2015 TCN designated Bader Minors Rookie Player of the Year for helping lead the Chiefs to the Midwest League Western Division Finals. In March 2016, during spring training, the Cardinals ranked Bader their 10th best prospect and fourth best outfielder among the team's 200 current minor leaguers. The Cardinals have since moved Bader to their Triple A team in Memphis. 2012 In February 2015 Kathryn Bartel, then a junior at MIT, launched the game app "Solar Sprint." The game, available on iTunes, asks players to "Use your quick wit and quicker reflexes to soar through the galaxies in a quest to collect all the scattered star pieces" and also "launch into orbits, portal through swirling worm holes, and avoid asteroids." Online reviewers have given Solar Sprint five-star ratings and such high praise as "awesome fun." Katie graduated from MIT in 2016 and continues her work as a Research Intern at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Harrison Bader was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in June 2015, just as he was heading to the College World Series with the University of Florida Gators. In his final stint with his college team before joining the Cardinals' minor league system as 2015's 100th draftee (third round) Bader showed incredible speed and fielding acumen in his left-field position. Error-free, he batted .348 (8-for-23) over the Gators' five games at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, with five RBI, four runs, two homers, a pair of doubles and a .696 slugging percentage, and became just the fifth player in Gators' history to earn College World Series All-Tournament honors. He had similar success in his first season in the Minors. Beginning his MLB career on June 30, Sam Torres conducted "Hudson" on April 8, 2016 at the Ades Performance Space at Manhattan School of Music. He composed the piece for chamber ensemble and film. It was performed by his 10-piece chamber ensemble Little Wing. The film aspect of the piece is composed of scenes taken along the Hudson River, from Riverdale to the southern tip of Manhattan. The music melds influences of Icelandic rock with Steve Reich and American folk music. This piece, and other exciting compositions including his solo piano "Tekiah" can be heard at: https://samtorresmusic. bandcamp.com/ 2014 Shyenne Puello has been enjoying the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of Penn's online literary magazine, Penn Flux, is a writing tutor for other undergraduates, and is treasurer for Penn's Japan Students Association. $ Horace Mann Magazine Summer 2016 59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g19nAxNYKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g19nAxNYKk http://www.usagym.org/pages/athletes/athleteListDetail.html?id=348557 https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/ http://www.usagym.org/pages/athletes/athleteListDetail.html?id=348557 http://www.tbp.org/home.cfm https://jrobport.carbonmade.com https://samtorresmusic.bandcamp.com https://samtorresmusic.bandcamp.com https://baogroup.stanford.edu/

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