Academic honors earned by local students.
• Mabel Baez, of Springfield, was the recipient of the dean’s award for academic excellence for the spring semester at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y.
• Rachel Moore, of Longmeadow, was admitted to Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, as a member of the Class of 2018. Moore is the daughter of Russell Moore and Erica Weida.
• Kayla Schreibstein, of Longmeadow, recently began studies as a member of the Class of 2018 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Kayla is a graduate of Loomis Chaffee School.
• Camille M. Burger, of Longmeadow, was welcomed as a member of the Class of 2018 to St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. Burger attended Longmeadow High School.
• Clarkson University junior Christopher Tarbell, of East Longmeadow, majoring in aeronautical engineering, participated in Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Design/Build/Fly competition.
The Clarkson team, part of the university’s SPEED (Student Projects in Engineering and Design) program, recently returned from competition in Wichita, Kansas, where they placed 19th out of 80 teams.
Bob Davis is the director of the SPEED Program, which has 15 extracurricular teams in which students work on projects that hone their engineering and design skills. The teams choose their leaders, work up a budget and figure the logistics of their projects.
“This provides hands-on education in addition to all the theory they study,” Davis says. “About 300 students participate on these teams. That’s comparable to our number of athletes, so these students get team-based experience as well.”
Every year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics invites students from across the world to participate in the Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Design/Build/Fly competition, which is held at sponsor sites in Kansas and Arizona.
This year, all teams were required to design a bush plane that could take off in less than 40 feet, carry a variety of payload weights, and reach certain speeds. There also was a simulated medical evacuation flight with unusually shaped cargo, and a rough taxi test.
• Eric Tallman, of Longmeadow, was named to the dean’s list at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
He is the son of C. Bruce Tallman and Karen Tallman and attended Williston Northampton School.
The dean’s list is compiled each summer and is drawn from the top 10 percent of the previous year’s first-year, sophomore, and junior classes. It is announced at the beginning of the academic year as part of the Opening Convocation festivities.
• Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic recently released its list of newly enrolled students for the fall semester. They include: Connor McCarthy, of Longmeadow, a communication major; and Ian Nugent, of East Longmeadow, a political science major.
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