Award Considered to be Most Prestigious Honor a Student Can Receive
Middlefield, OH – Cardinal High School is proud to announce that Senior, Cole Z., has been chosen as this year’s Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa award recipient. Cole was selected by Cardinal High School staff to be the award recipient based on his academic achievement and scholarship. The society requires members to maintain a grade point average in the top 10% of the class. “He’s had an outstanding academic career,” says high school Guidance Counselor Jill DeRamo. “Cole is at the top of his graduating class, excels in both his classes here at Cardinal and at Ohio State University, he’s involved in extra-curricular activities and programs; he’s very well-rounded and a worthy choice for this award.”
Cole was one of 114 outstanding graduating seniors from Northeast Ohio to be recognized by the chapter at their Annual Scholastic Awards Banquet on May 1, 2016. The award is considered by many to be one of the most prestigious awards a high school student can receive. “Being recognized for my accomplishments and hard work is very rewarding,” says Cole. “Seeing all of the other highly successful award recipients was eye-opening.”
Cole credits some of his academic success to dedicating what he calls a “large amount of time” to community service and challenging himself to grow personally and academically. He enrolled in The Ohio State University Academy Program last fall. The Academy program is the Ohio State implementation of College Credit Plus and is a partnership between Ohio State, Cardinal High School, and the students enrolled in it. “Due to these college classes being online, I had to take my education into my own hands and stay motivated in order to succeed,” Cole says. He will finish this year’s program with 29 college credit hours and a 3.92 cumulative GPA.
The credits and GPA will carry over for Cole this fall as he officially begins his full-time, post-secondary education in Columbus at The Ohio State University. He will be a member of the Humanitarian Engineering Scholars Program majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He plans to apply to the Honors Program in the spring of 2017. Cole says, “I hope to have a career in computer engineering, where I hope to contribute to society in a positive way with technology.”
About the Phi Beta Kappa Society: Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. According to its website, it has chapters at 280 institutions and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression.
About the Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa: According to its website, the Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa was established in 1947 to support the ideals of the Society through academic, social, and community-based programs. The Cleveland Association draws its membership from more than 3,700 residents of the Greater Cleveland area who were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society as undergraduates. The Cleveland Association is one of over fifty similar Phi Beta Kappa associations across the country comprises of local Phi Beta Kappa members.
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