Aside
from supporting various competitive academic teams with its financial support,
the ACE Foundation seeks to publicize and celebrate the teams' accomplishments.
In addition to assisting in the publication of news stories in the Trumbull Times
and Connecticut Post, this website's Teams in the News
page features reprints as well as various other articles and photos covering teams'
activities.
The foundation has also hosted and subsidized a
Celebration Banquet for all team members and their families, as well as the teams'
advisors, toward the end of the school year for the past three years. An article
appearing in the Trumbull Times that provides additional information about these
festive evenings is posted below.
Some of the notable accomplishments
over the past three years of teams/groups receiving ACE Foundation support are
noted below. Unless otherwise noted, these are based at Trumbull High School.
Teams/Groups
with which the ACE Foundation has been Involved |
| Group
| Advisor(s) | Notable Accomplishments |
| Debate
Club | Kathy Rubano | Great Connecticut
Debate - Semi-Finalists (2005)
Participants (2006, 2007); Osterweis Debate
Tournament (Yale): First-time participants (2007) |
| The
Eagle's Eye | Matt Bracksieck | American
Scholastic Press Association Awards (2005-2007) |
| Economics
Challenge Team | Gerry McCloghry | Connecticut
State Competition - 3rd Place (2006) |
| Euro
Challenge Team | Gerry McCloghry
Laura Alford | New
York District Competition - First-time
Participants (2007) |
| Fed
Challenge Team | Gerry McCloghry
Laura Alford | New
York District Finalists - Connecticut Champion,
District 3rd Place (2004),
2nd Place (2006)
New York District Semi-Finalists (2005, 2007) |
| Knowledge
Master Team | Colin Neenan | National
Internet Competitions - Connecticut Champion,
National Top 8% (2006); 2nd
Place, National Top 24%
(Fall 2006); 3rd Place, National Top 19% (Spring 2007) |
| Math
Team | Martha Turtoro | Fairfield
County Math League - Runners-up (2005),
5th Place (2006)
Connecticut State
Large-School Champions (2004),
5th Place (2005)
New England Championships
- 7th Place (2004, 2005)
American Mathematics AMC 12(B) Competition -
Connecticut Champions (2006)
American Regional Math League Participation at
Penn
State - 2 THS Students in 2007, 3 in 2006, 2 in 2005 |
| Model
United Nations Team | Keif Doyle | Model
UN Competition - Fairfield University (2004)
United Nations New York Trip
(2005) |
Odyssey of the
Mind Teams
(Booth Hill School) | Carolyn Collins (coordinator)
| Connecticut Competition - Division I: 2nd in 2006; 2nd
and
8th in 2007
World Finals - 24th Place (Iowa, 2006); 9th Place (Michigan,
2007)
|
Odyssey
of the Mind Teams
(Hillcrest Middle School) | Carolyn
Collins (coordinator) | Connecticut Competition - Division
I: 1st in 2007;
Division II: 1st in 2007
World Finals (Michigan) - 24th
and 41st Places (2007) |
| Physics
Olympics Teams | Hans Drenkard | Yale
Olympiad - 3rd Place of 50 (2005), Participants (2006, 2007)
UConn Olympiad
- First-time Participants (2006) |
| Robotics
Team | Hans Drenkard | New Team
in 2006, Developing Capabilities |
| Trillium
| Sue Berescik
Jordan Miller | New
England Scholastic Press Association Awards,
American Scholastic Press Association
Awards,
National Scholastic Press Association Awards,
All awards annually,
2004 - 2007 |
| We the
People Teams (Hillcrest and Madison Middle Schools) | HMS:
Charles Callahan & Samantha Mott
MMS: Roberta Weiner | Connecticut
Competition - Participants (2006, 2007)
Madison: State Champions (2007) |
| We
the People Team | Michael Margonis | Connecticut
State Champions (2005, 2006, 2007),
16 State Championships in 20 years
National Championships: 5th "Top Ten" Finish (2005, 2007),
Northeast
Region Award (2006) |
| Web
Team | Catherine Larson | Inaugural
Podcasting Initiative (2006) |
