Hopkinton Parent Teacher Association

Art by Helen Gao, Grade 9

Students from schools across Massachusetts were honored on April 10 in Swansea for placing at the state level of the National Reflections Program competition.

Eleven Hopkinton students placed at the state level and received awards for arts excellence and achievement through the National PTA Reflections Program.

Five students placed first in their categories:  Helen Goa, Melanie Cole, Jesse Chambers, Zachary Ritterbusch and Mirabella Paolucci (2 entries).

These five will move onto the national level of competition.  It’s the first year Hopkinton has had this many students competing at this final level.

We are very proud of all our state winners and excited for those competing at nationals. Results should be available by the end of May.  We wish them the best of luck during this competition.

Reflections is a national, arts-based program that encourages students to express their creativity across a theme and through a variety of venues.

This years’ theme was “Together We Can.”  The program competition begins at the local level with winners moving onto state and then the final, national level.

For more information regarding the Reflections program, visit the HPTA webpage at  http://www.hptaonline.com/reflections.html, the Mass. PTA webpage at www.masspta.org, or the national PTA webpage at www.pta.org.

Areas of judging at local, state and national levels include dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and the visual arts (which includes art forms such as drawing, painting, print making, and collage).

Entries for the 2010-11 Reflections program used the theme “Together We Can.”

The six entries from Hopkinton’s first-place state-level winners—Jesse Chambers, Melanie Cole, Helen Goa, Mirabella Paolucci (two entries), Zachary Ritterbusch—will all move onto the national level of judging.

All entrants who placed at the state level have been invited to a Reflections State Awards Ceremony to be held April 10.

Hopkinton’s state level award winners include Jack Brady, Vivek Dattar, Evan Katz, Sean Kelly, Bridget Walker and Sean Walker, in addition to Chambers, Cole, Goa, Paolucci and Ritterbusch.

“Congratulations to our state winners! We are very proud of you,” said Deb Kelly and Selina Paolucci, who have co-chaired the HPTA Reflections for four years.

All Hopkinton students who submitted entries will be recognized with an award at the year-end HPTA General Assembly and will receive a free ice cream cone from Golden Spoon.

Artwork and videos from the Reflections competition can be viewed at the HPTA website.

By Jean Cann

Abigail Furlong, Grade 4, Intermediate Visual Arts

Congratulations to all of the Hopkinton students who submitted an entry for the 2010-2011 PTA Reflections program. This year’s theme was “Together We Can.”  The HPTA Reflections chairs were Selina Paolucci and Deb Kelly.

Students representing each of Hopkinton’s schools submitted their work in different categories, which included literature, photography, music, film and visual arts.

Melanie Cole, Grade 1, Primary Visual Arts

Helen Gao, Grade 9, Senior Visual Arts

National Reflections program award winners will be announced in May.

Primary Division – PreK – 2nd grade
Literature
Sean Walker
Isabella Simes
Mirabella Paolucci
Timothy Tourigny
Ailene Barry
Catherine Barry
Vivek Dattar
Tara Joshi

Photography
Mirabella Paolucci

Visual Arts
Melanie Cole
Allison Chen
Casey Tourigny
Lily Tourigny
Jake Chirco
Vivek Dattar
Jack Brady

Musical Composition
Bridget Walker

Film Production
Jesse Chambers

Intermediate Division – grades 3-5
Film Production
Zachary Ritterbusch

Literature
Mira Chadha
Abby Furlong

Visual Arts
Abbey Kelley-Lanser
Devin Kelly
Abby Furlong
Ethan Ritterbusch

Middle/Junior Division- grades 6-8
Visual Arts
Sean Kelly

Senior Division – grades 9-12
Literature
Evan Katz

Visual Arts
Helen Gao

We're very excited to share with you the 2009-2010 State Reflections Program State Results where several of our Hopkinton students/entries placed!

This year we even have two students who placed first in their category, moving them up to the national level of competition. That's truly wonderful!

You can find the complete state results listing on the Massachusetts PTA website at http://www.masspta.org/news/2010-reflections-winners.html.

Kindly note that each and every student who participated in this year's program will be recognized at the year-end HPTA assembly in May and presented a small gift as a thank you for their submissions.

Please join us in congratulating the following Hopkinton students who placed at the state level of competition!

Literature Category
Primary
2nd Place: Sean Walker
Honorable Mention: Mirabella Paolucci and Isabelle Simes

Visual Arts Category
Middle School
1st Place: Helen Gao*
3rd Place: Emily Katz

Photography Category
Primary
2nd Place: Mirabella Paolucci

Middle School
1st Place: Matthew Paolucci*
2nd Place: Michael Protas

*These students move onto the national level of competition! Congratulations and Good Luck!

Keep on Creating!

Deb Kelly and Selina Paolucci
Local Chairs - Reflections