Hopkinton Parent Teacher Association

Teachers and Parents: Partners in Education

National PTA's Reflections Program

  • 2009-10 Reflections Program
  • Last Year's Winners

"Beauty is..." - Hopkinton Reflections Program Entries

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PTA ReflectionsMarch 5, 2010

We're very excited to share with you the 2009-2010 National 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.

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

Literature Category
Primary
2nd Place: Sean Walker
Honorable Mention: Mirabella Paolucci & Isabella 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: Walter Protas

*These students move onto the national level of competition! Congratulations and we wish Good Luck to both of you!

Keep on Creating!

Your Reflections Art Chairs,

Selina Paolucci
508-625-1135
joyinspirations@me.com

Deb Kelly
508-435-8392
debkelly8@verizon.net


February 10, 2010

CONGRATULATIONS to those in the LITERATURE CATEGORY - Primary Division, who were able to be part of a local judging. In order to conduct local judging, there needs to be a minimum of 3 entries in a category, by 3 different students. This year, only Visual Arts-Primary Division had enough entries to hold a local judging.

Thank you also to our local judges Kate Heyd & Sandra Livis from the CAA! We enlist artists from the Hopkinton Cultural Arts Alliance (CAA) with talents/strengths in the particular category that is being judged. They are independent judges who generously volunteer their time for the program. We thank Kate and Sandra (also from the Hopkinton Independent) for being local judges this year.

LOCAL JUDGING RESULTS: LITERATURE CATEGORY - Primary Division
First Place Mirabella Paolucci
Second Place Ashley Wojcik
Third Place Sean Walker
Honorable Mention Isabelle Simes


January 11, 2010

A big "THANK YOU" to the following 14 students for submitting an entry/entries in this years' PTA Reflections Program.

We're so proud of your efforts and being a part of this national, arts-based competition. Your entries are inspiring, beautiful and heartwarming! All 18 entries moved onto the state level of competition. The state results will be available by mid-March.

Center School - Primary Division
Sarah Furlong - visual arts
Mirabella Paolucci - literature & photography
Isabella Simes - literature
Sean Walker - literature
Ashley Wojcik - literature

Elmwood School - Intermediate Division
Sarah Kang - visual arts
Abbey Kelley-Lanser - visual arts
Isabella Komodromos - literature
Zoe Komodromos - literature
Emma McNamara -musical composition

Hopkins School - Middle/Junior Division
Helen Gao - visual arts
Emily Katz -visual arts
Matthew Paolucci - photography & literature
Michael Protas - photography

To view a slide show of all this years' entries, see above or click here to view larger:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hptacommunications/PTAReflectionsEntries2009

ALL students who submitted an entry will be recognized at the HPTA Year-End General Assembly in May. A slide show featuring this years' entries will also be shown during the assembly.

As soon as we receive the state results, we will update our website to reflect those standings.

Congratulations to all our students for all their beautiful works of art and for being a part of this wonderful arts-based national competition. We're very proud of you!

Local HPTA Reflections Chairs:

Selina Paolucci 625-1135 joyinspirations@me.com
Deb Kelly 435-8392 
debkel8@aol.com


MASSACHUSETTS STATE WINNERS


Michael Protas - Hopkinton Middle School


Principal Martha Starr & Matthew Paolucci - Hopkins School


Isabelle Simes & Principal Jennifer Parsons - Center School


HOPKINTON LOCAL WINNERS


Jasmine Battikha - 2nd place winner and
Devin Kelly - honorable mention
of Center School


Abbey Kelley-Lanser - 1st place winner  and
Anna McCracken - 3rd place winner
of Elmwood School

REFLECTIONS UPDATE

March 2009

Three Hopkinton students placed at the state level. Congratulations to these students!!! We're very proud of your achievement. It's a wonderful accomplishment.

Student School Category/Division Place

  • Isabelle Simes Center Dance- Primary 1st - all first place move onto Nationals
  • Matthew Paolucci Hopkins Literature - Intermediate 3rd
  • Michael Protas Middle School Photography - Middle 2nd & 3rd

These students were recognized at an awards ceremony in Plymouth on March 28th with all the other state winners. 1st Place winners go onto Nationals. Congratulations to Isabelle Simes for her dance choreography entry and good luck to her in the National competition.

We're proud of ALL of our Hopkinton students who submitted entries. ALL students who entered this year's contest will be recognized locally at the HPTA year-end general meeting. Their entries will be on display and they will receive recognition for participating in this year's program. For the final, state-results posting, go to the PTA National website:
http://www.masspta.org/programs/
reflections-winners.html

Please join me in congratulating our state winners! Hopkinton did very well!

Keep on creating!

Selina Paolucci
Deb Kelly


February 2009

This year, Hopkinton received 19 submissions among 13 candidates participating in this year's 2008-09 National Reflections Program.  All entries are currently at the state level of competition.  We should receive the state results by March end.  At the HPTA year-end meeting (May), we will hold a small ceremony recognizing ALL entrants, displaying ALL submissions and rewarding those who placed at either the local or state level.

Thank you to the following Hopkinton students for their beautiful entries!

Center School / Preschool:
Jasmine Battikha
Devin Kelly
Kyra McCracken
Mirabella Paolucci
Isabelle Simes

Elmwood School:
Abbey Kelley-Lanser
Anna McCracken
John Simes

Hopkins School:
Chloe DiMare
Sean Kelly
Matthew Paolucci

Middle School:
Helen Gao
Michael Protas

In order to have a LOCAL competition, a category must have 3 or more entries.  This year we received 7 entries in the Primary Division (preschool - Grade 2) for the category of Visual Arts.  So this allowed us to hold a local judging/competition for just this category.  These 7 entries were judged locally. Congratulations to the following candidates!  

LOCAL Visual Arts Winners - Primary Division:
Abbey Kelley-Lanser - 1st place winner 
Jasmine Battikha - 2nd place winner 
Anna McCracken - 3rd place winner 
Devin Kelly - honorable mention 

Keep in mind that ALL entries go onto state, regardless of local competition results,  starting with a clean slate.  The local results have no weight at the state level.  So there are new opportunities for these and all other entrants.

We're excited with the increased number of entries this year and the beautiful entries we have received.  Again, congratulations to those who were part of the local competition!  And, we hope to see our Hopkinton students recognized for their beautiful works of art at the state level of judging!  

We'll be in touch soon.  Keep on creating...

Selina Paolucci & Deb Kelly