Arhum Shah, an 8th grade STEM Academy student at Spring Ridge Middle School, was honored October 28, 2012, as one of the brightest middle school students worldwide at a national medal ceremony sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY). The Center honored Arhum for his exceptional performance as a middle school student on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
From among the 40,800 participants in the 2012 CTY Talent Search, Arhum was in the top 900 U.S. and international middle school students invited to the medal ceremony to be recognized for his exceptionally high scores. These scores placed Arhum well within the top one-half of one percent academically of all same-grade students worldwide.
As a national medal recipient, Arhum qualifies for CTY’s residential summer programs, online classes, and family academic programs. There, he can meet others like himself from all over the world and have an opportunity to “stretch his creative and intellectual wings, and discover where his special talents may take him.”
Ms. Tracey Heibel, Supervisor of Instruction for Science and STEM education with St. Mary’s County Public Schools commented, “This is an unprecedented accomplishment for a STEM 8 student. We are very proud of Arhum’s tremendous academic success”.
