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Academy Alum’s Jewelry Appearing in Netflix Feature
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
A jewelry company founded by 1998 Academy graduate Duane McLemore and his partner Katherine Voorhies, has a pendant worn prominently by star Joey King in the Netflix feature Uglies (premiering Friday, September 13), where it is integral to the plot.
Xover0 is a two-person small business which got its start on McLemore and Voorhies’ kitchen table in Los Angeles, but has since grown (and moved) to having a full production studio in Mississippi, using advanced computation and fabrication alongside traditional craftsmanship to create novel and compelling heirloom jewelry exclusively from precious metals – all the way from idea to shipping.
“Our jewelry being featured like this is part of a wider arc of my career which wouldn’t have been possible without the Academy,” says McLemore. “The impact the Academy had on me as a person, scholar, and creator is immeasurable – the things it fostered in me have been integral to my success as an architect and professor, and ultimately in jewelry design, and I would love to share that – and my enthusiasm to be a Academy alumnus – with the world.”
National Merit Scholarship Program Recognition
Friday, September 6, 2024
Several Indiana Academy students are recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program and compete for scholarships yearly. This year, a large group of 14 Indiana Academy seniors qualified for the program. Those qualifying are Evan Bell, Miriam Boersma, Hunter Coppernoll, Kymaia Edge, Garrett Elliott, Lily Ellis, Ian Forester, Asia Genawi, Zishan Hyder, Justin Lin, James Peters, Aleysa Rathinasamy, Xavier Salazar, and Arav Singh. Congratulations! These students join a select group of only 1.6% of high school seniors nationwide qualifying for the program!
Academy Intern Highlighted by Yale University
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Asia Genawi, Class of 2025, was recently featured on the Yale University Department of Physics news site for the work she did during her May Term internship.
Connecting Students to Careers
Thursday, May 23, 2024
IU Health Ball and the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities have been within walking distance of each other since 1988. In 2023, the organizations came together in a partnership to connect students with careers in the healthcare field.
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Courtesy of IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Indiana Academy Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 25
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
The Indiana Academy commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 25th, 2023, starting at 11:30 a.m., in the Emens Auditorium on the campus of Ball State University. Our commencement speaker this year will be Jill Peddycord Brown, Class of 1992. A native of Indianapolis, Ms. Brown a senior executive with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Parking for the Commencement Ceremony is available in the McKinley parking garage (south of Emens Auditorium), the New York Avenue parking garage (northeast of Emens Auditorium and Puris Hall), or the Student Center parking garage (south of Pittenger Student Center.) You can also refer to the campus map for building and parking locations.
The graduation events of the Indiana Academy are joyous but formal celebrations. Please do not bring air horns, cowbells, or other “noise” generating materials. Also, flash photography is a distraction to those seated nearby and a disturbance to the speaker. As a courtesy to all commencement ceremony participants, individuals who wish to videotape or take flash photographs may do so only from the balcony of Emens Auditorium.
Crabtree Photography will be taking handshake photographs as graduate receives their diploma, and a posed picture with the diploma. They will be taking the senior group photo in front of Beneficence. Graduation pictures can be ordered at crabtree-photography.hhimagehost.com/IA. Pictures will then be mailed directly from Crabtree Photography to the home address.
We believe the 2024 graduation ceremony will be a memorable and joyous occasion, and you are free to attend with as many family and friends as you would like as seating for the graduation ceremony on Saturday is unlimited. If you are unable to join us in -person, the ceremony will be live-streamed at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2b3w9UKJq4.
2024 Academic Super Bowl Results
Monday, May 6, 2024
On Saturday, May 4, twelve Academy students competed at the state level for Academic Super Bowl in Science, Fine Arts, Mathematics, and Interdisciplinary. Fine Arts placed third, and Math placed first, with Science and Interdisciplinary giving respectable performances as state qualifiers.
The new State Champion banner is hanging in Burkhardt lounge. If you see any of these students, please congratulate them!
The team includes Alexander Bell (interdisciplinary), Theo Davis (fine arts), Hunter Dunnuck (science captain), Garrett Elliott (math, science), Sam Greathouse (fine arts captain, interdisciplinary captain), Anna Gu (math, interdisciplinary), Carson Gull (math captain, science, interdisciplinary), Christopher Holmquist (science), Sung Hoo Hong (math), Justin Lin (math), Alesya Rathinasamy (science), and Marissa Silken (fine arts)
Quiz Bowl National Tournament Results
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
On April 26-28, the varsity quiz bowl team participated in the Small School National Championship Tournament (SSNCT) sponsored by National Academic Quizbowl Tournaments, LLC (NAQT). This is the 4th consecutive year IA has competed in this annual tournament.
The team achieved a 5-5 record at the championship, which is the best finish in IA’s history. This placed the Academy team in the exact middle of the standings for the tournament (28 out of 55). One of the victories came against the team that would eventually finish 15th in the tournament, a definite signature win for the team. The team finished 3-1 in the consolation matches including a win by a two to one margin over one of the teams that defeated us in the main event.
Congrats go team members Brody Chestnut, Lily Ellis, Carson Gull, and Lily Hughbanks as well as coach Joshua Ruark.
Indiana Academy Recognized Among Top Indiana High Schools by U.S. News & World Report
Friday, April 26, 2024
The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities and Burris Laboratory School have reaffirmed their positions as leading high schools in Indiana, according to the latest rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.
Read more in the Ball State University press release.
Academy Students Compete in State Envirothon
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Six Indiana Academy students competed in the state Envirothon contest on Wednesday, April 24. Our team placed third in the oral presentation category for their proposal to accelerate the transition to renewable energy in Delaware County through installation of solar panels on brownfield sites and on rooftops in Muncie. Congratulations to Jackson Bales, Delaney Blankenbuehler-Lee, AJ Carter, Cole McDermott, Mallory Saldana, and Kylie Bernier!
Academy Super Bowl Results
Friday, April 19, 2024
This past Tuesday, April 16th, eighteen of our students traveled to Greenfield Central High School to compete at the area Academic Super Bowl Competition. This year’s theme is “The End of the 2nd Millenium: The 1980s and 1990s.” Our students competed in Math, Science, Fine Arts, Social Studies, and English, with the following results:
- English placed 3rd in our class.
- Social Studies placed 1st in our class.
- Fine Arts placed 1st in our class, as well as 3rd in the state in our class and has qualified for the State Competition.
- Mathematics placed 1st in our class, as well as 1st in the state in our class and has qualified for the State Competition.
- Science placed 1st in our class, as well as 1st in the state in our class and has qualified for the State Competition.
Interdisciplinary does not compete at area, but instead the scores of the five areas are totaled and used to determine which schools qualify for state.
- Interdisciplinary placed 1st in our class in the state, and has qualified for the State Competition.
Students competing this past Tuesday were:
- Alexander Bell (social studies, interdis)
- Vivana Bhagat (English)
- AJ Carter (social studies)
- Brody Chestnut (social studies captain)
- Theo Davis (fine arts, English)
- Hunter Dunnuck (science captain)
- Garrett Elliott (science, math)
- Sam Greathouse (fine arts captain, interdis captain)
- Anna Gu (English captain, math, interdis)
- Carson Gull (math captain, science, interdis)
- Christopher Holmquist (science)
- Sung Hoo Hong (math)
- Justin Lin (math)
- Owen Nichols (English)
- Alesya Rathinasamy (science)
- Serena Richardson (social studies)
- Marissa Silkett (fine arts, English)
- Joshua Summers (social studies)
These students worked very hard and still have more work ahead of them! A special thank you to Mr. Scott Ritchie and Ms. Kim Foltz for driving vans so we could get all 18 kids to Greenfield Central and back!