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Catholic News Herald

Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina

093016 olgGREENSBORO — Seventh-graders at Our Lady of Grace School recently learned about the ecosystem of the creek in the mountains, fed pigs, goats, chickens and bunnies, learned to set up a compost pile and hiked at the Green River Preserve in Cedar Mountain.

— Photo provided by Aphton K. Lang

HUNTERSVILLE — Christ the King High School student Alexander Koenigsberger has been named a National Merit Semifinalist in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. This indicates that Koenigsberger scored in the top 16,000 students out of 1.6 million PSAT test-takers.

He is the school’s first National Merit Semifinalist in its five-year history. Koenigsberger will continue in the competition and will be notified later in the school year if he is a finalist. Finalists are chosen based on academic achievement, extracurricular involvement and leadership.

Christ the King students Victor Anastacio, Kirsten Fernando, Alexandra Huet-Hudson, Alec Karam and Gregory Taylor Seeling have been named Commended Students in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. These awards indicate that these students scored in the top 50,000 out of 1.6 million test-takers.

— Laura E. Henry