IB candidates receive their diplomas

Berta Tarqui, Academics Editor • 7 Views

January 3, 2013

IB graduates stand as their fellow graduates receive their diplomas.

After taking rigorous classes, doing hours of community service and completeing several projects, IB students will finally get their diploma.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve IB candidate status. Candidates have to complete many tasks to even be considered.

Today in the Auditorium during Atom Time, IB graduates recieved their diploma in front of many students who attended to see this special event.

These students already graduated last year, but it takes another year for them to receive their IB diploma.

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The ceremony started out with the IB graduates sitting up on the stage. They all took turns to comment on their experience and many say it was worth the stress and work. Theory of Knowledge Instructor John Hawes and Extended Essay Coordinator Mary Ann Richardson both gave a speech to the IB graduates.

Hawes was up first to congratulate.

“They are magic,” Hawes said.

Hawes asked the IB graduates to stand up as he talked to them.

“You tend to see the world in all it’s enormous capacity,” Hawes said.

Up next was Richardson who made a few comments about AHS.

“Without the IB program we will be stuck,” Richardson said.

Here are the lists of students who received the IB diploma. 21 of the candidates were able to attend.

Marwa Abdelaziz

Charles Aftergut

Bernard Chalhub

Anne Curran

Abigail Fleming

Hilla Haidari

Carolyn Hartley

Derrick Hollenbeck

Sarah Knenlein

Kunneang Kou

Rajasak Leksang

Carina Lin

Stephen Moore

Quan Ngo

Emily Oliver

Liliam Pacheco Rivera

Jiyeong Park

Nasiha Rashid

Robert Schieble

Susanna Sowa

Mariam Tariq Javed

Josue Torrico Burgoa

Danielle Turner

About the Contributor

Berta Tarqui, Co-Editor in Chief

Berta is currently a senior. She has been on The A-Blast since her freshmen year and was first an Academics Editor during sophomore year and then became the Health Editor during her junior year. She is also active after school and likes to do community service through Key Club and National Honor Society. She is also in National English Honor Society. Berta hopes to study Business Management once she graduates and hopefully own her own small business in several years. Her other interests include playing the guitar, listening to music (The Beatles), writing and doing whatever she feels like.