LISA Academy students have shown a great performance at the Little Rock Regional Science fair.

JUNIOR DIVISION

16 First Place
16 Second Place
14 Third Place
12 Honorable Mention
5 Special Awards

SENIOR DIVISION

7 First Place
8 Second Place
7 Third Place
2 Honorable Mention
10 Special Awards




Click here to see Junior and Senior Division Winners

Click here to see Junior Academy of Science Awards

Click here to see Special Award Winners

After a year of placing first in both the Morrillton Invitational and at the 1A Regional Competition, the LISA Academy team won FIRST PLACE at the 1A AGQBA State Finals, Saturday, February 27. Additionally, at Quiz Bowl Camp last December they triumphed with many medals and awards won by individual members! This super team has enthusiastically practiced together five hours a week since September. We heartily congratulate the LISA Academy Jr. High Quiz Bowl Team!!!

Dear Parents and Students,

The Re-enrollment process for 2010-2011 school year has started. The re-enrollment forms are available at the front office, on the school website and in our Wednesday mails. We are also going to provide the students one copy.

The deadline is March 12th, 2010 at 4:00 PM. Your child will be placed in our waiting list for next year unless this form has been turned in before the deadline.

Download Re-enrollment Form for 2010-2011 school year

It was the first time for LISA Academy to attend Science Olympiads and it turned out to be a great success. These are the achievements:

It was another successful year for our Spanish Quiz Bowl team.

LISA Academy won in all categories that it competed and all our teams qualified for the State Competition on March 14 at UCA.

These are the results:


Quiz Bowl (Culture category):

1st place Sherry Gao, Rachana Kombathula, Nimit Gandhi & Manasa Veluvolu

2nd place Miracline Ebi, Sonya Mehta & Rachael Schwatz.


Poetry Recitation

1st place Nidhi Gandhi, Dana Abulez

2nd place Alex Zhang, Evan Hartzell, Nimit Ghandi

3rd place Deepali Lal, Devyani Shekhawat, Sonya Mehta, Abrar Matin read more . . .


Reading

1st place Avinash Arulmurugu, Ash Jindal, Sarthak Garg, Nishita Patel, Nidhi Ghandi

2nd place Sherry Gao, Raiyan Syed, Nathanial Ji

3rd place Sonya Mehta, Sujaan Lal, Kiran Chakka

Honorable Mention Daniel Manasco


Speaking

1st place Abrar Matin

2nd place Alex Zhang, Nimit Ghandi

3rd place Sarthak Garg


Vocabulary Bee

1st place Dana Abulez, Erick Jackson, Nidhi Ghandi, Rachael Schwartz, Errick Jackson

2nd place Evan Hartzell, Rachana Kombathula, Ash Jindal

3rd place Alex Zhang, Jacob Brown


Congratulations also to Elma Abdullah, Rebekah Smith, Michelle Burton, Abigail Paslidis and Rishabh Mazumder, Avinash Arulmurugu,Austin Ford, Faith Garcia, Elizabeth Graham, Lynette Hatch, Siddarth Jambhekar, Isaac Kroger, Ashleigh Mcpherson, Stephanie Menhart, Lisa Shick, Maliha Bhatti and Victoria Phan. They also qualified for the State Competition at UCA.

Thanks to Ms. Huatuco, Ms. Pope and Ms. Knieling…

LISA Academy took 7 entries to UALR and 4 of them are advancing to states in April. We are so proud of the hard work and dedication our students and teachers have shown.

1. Shruti Shah won 1st place in the Individual Performance category.
2. Trisha Bhattacharyya, Jasmina Davis & Vedavalli Govindan received 2nd place in the Group Performance Category.
3. Matthew Perkins, Dhruba Dasgupta, Sarthak Garg & Raiyan Syed received 2nd place in the Group Documentary category.
4. Sujaan Lal, Nathanael Ji & Ayush Saraswat received 3rd place in the Group Documentary category.

Thanks Ms. Dorsey..

Our 7th grade student Trisha Bhattacharyya took the 8th place in the county spelling bee. There were 50 total contestants and 23 total rounds.

Thanks to Ms. Carter for sponsoring…

4th Interstate Turkish Olympiads was held on March 6, 2010 in Kansas City, MO. LISA Academy students had great success.

Turkish Language Grammar Contest

1st Place : Leslie Gray
3rd Place: Nkechinyere O'keke
Honorable Mentions: Joseph O'keke, Ayushi Saraswat, Janay Higgins

Singing Contest

3rd Place: Jilena Cosiver

Drawing Contest
Honorable Mention: Izabelle Harville

Also, our sister school LISA Academy-North won:

1st Place in Turkish Folk Dance
1st Place in Stand Contest
2nd Place in Poetry
2nd Place in Talent

LISA Academy High School Graduation Ceremony will be held on May 21st, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the following address:

Central Church of Christ
823 West 6th Street
Little Rock, AR 72201

LISA Academy hosted its annual School Wide Science Fair on January 23rd, 2010. Our students presented their projects to the attention of the judges from different universities.

Thanks to our parents and students and teachers for being a part of our Science Fair. That was a great success.

Special thanks to our PTSA and science teachers for the great organization.

Click here to see the pictures

Our senior students have been getting accepted to the colleges and awarded scholarships. We congratulate the following students that has been awarded scholarships from colleges:

Nicholas Ward and Gerald Mitchell has been awarded a Razorback Bridge Scholarship to study at the University of Arkansas. Razorback Bridge Scholarships are among the university's most prestigious awards, providing up to $3500 per year tuition, fees, and on-campus room and board to top students from Arkansas, and the nation. Twenty-six Razorback Bridge Scholarships are being awarded this year.

Asli Ahmed has been awarded full scholarship by Howard University and 75% scholarship by Hendrix University.


We will update this list weekly.

We have good news to tell you about our seniors. They have started to get accepted to colleges. As a college preparatory school, LISA Academy congratulates the following students:



We will update this list weekly.