RE Log - Fall 2023

FALL 2023 Ransom Everglades LOG 33 RE’s national champion middle school academic team of Parker Jelke ’27, Lucas Gonzalez ’27 and Jaz Puri ’28 earned the silver medal at the 5th International History Olympiad Championship in Rome in July, finishing second in the world to a team representing Asia. At the event that included 258 students and teams from 21 countries, 30 U.S. states and four territories, Jelke led RE’s team with three gold, three silver and two bronze medals in individual events – including a silver in the individual overall middle school history championship. The Ransom Everglades contingent, which included Noah Veras ’29 and Julian Jelke ’29 in the elementary school division, excelled in many of the more than two dozen academic competitions in venues that included the Colosseum and St. Peter’s Square. Like Jelke, Veras and Gonzalez earned medals in topic-specific categories: Veras earned one silver and two bronze, and Gonzalez claimed a bronze. Ian Barnett ’23 was one of 15 students in Miami-Dade County to win a prestigious Silver Knight Award May 25 at the 65th annual event that honors academic excellence and commitment to service. Barnett, the music award recipient, earned recognition in part for a two-week course on the art of composition he created to teach to young musicians. The Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald Silver Knight Awards ceremony at the James L. Knight Convention Center drew 750 nominees from more than 100 schools in South Florida. Barnett, an active member of the Greater Miami Youth Symphony since he was six years old, partnered with the symphony to share the course he developed with the support of a Dan Leslie Bowden Fellowship in the Humanities. Barnett broke music composition into basic pieces to enable children to write and perform their own works. Barnett, now in his first year at Princeton University, also co-founded Superpower of ME (Music Education), a string quartet dedicated to raising money for kids who cannot afford musical instruments. Heavy Medal RE’s middle school academic team wins silver medal at international olympiad Striking a Chord Senior lands Silver Knight Award for music In June, Jelke, Gonzalez, Puri and Zach Corbin Cheah ’27 finished first in the National History Bowl in Washington, D.C. At that event, the team posted a 10-0 record as Jelke won second place in the eighth-grade National History Bee. The students worked under the direction of longtime academic team coach Joe Mauro. Jaz Puri ’28, Lucas Gonzalez ’27 and Parker Jelke ’27 Student News