OCIAA Scholar Athletes: Megan Cameron and Roberto Reade

Megan Cameron and Roberto Reade were named OCIAA Scholar Athletes (Office of Interscholastic Athletics at Orange-Ulster BOCES). The students were recognized with all scholar athletes from the county at a reception this spring. Congratulations to our scholar athletes!

Varsity Sports:  Swimming & Diving, Unified Basketball

Academic Honors/Extracurricular Activities:  National Honor Society Vice President,  NYS Science Honor Society, Senior Class President & Student Council, NYS Seal of Civic Readiness, NYS Seal of Biliteracy, NFA High Honor Roll, American Legion School Award, Congressional Award Silver Medal, Congressional Award Bronze Metal, Commander’s Challenge Coin, Regional & National FEMA Youth Preparedness Council, Newburgh Sharks USA Swimming Club, American Red Cross Lifeguard Training Certification, Clinical Research Internship at the US Military Academy’s Biochemistry Lab and the West Point Advanced Return to Run Investigations and Orthopedic Research (WARRIOR), Motion Laboratory, Youth in Government, University of Rochester Summer Courses:  Personalized Medicine~Customizing Care Through Genetics and Biomedical Engineering~Solving the Body’s Challenges with Technology

Athletic Honors:   Senior Career High Point and Outstanding Swimmer Awards, Team Captain, NYSPHAA Section IX Championships Finals Qualifier, NYSPHAA Section IX Championship Top 8 Finisher, 3rd highest Season Point Scorer on NFA Varsity Team

Community Service:  Volunteer Swimming Instructor, Hudson Valley SPCA Volunteer, Dutchess-Orange Tutoring (DOT)

Future Plans:  Princeton University to major in Molecular Biology and join Club Swimming

ROBERTO READE

Varsity Sports:  Swimming, Baseball

Academic Honors/Extracurricular Activities:  National Honor Society, National Science Honor Society, Junior Leadership Orange, American Legion Award, RIT Computing Medal Scholarship, RIT Presidential Scholarship, Enterprise Design Thinking, New Collar Professional Skills, Big Data 101, Python 101 for Data Science, How to Build Chatbots, Working in a Digital World:  Professional Skills

Athletic Honors:  Coaches Award for Leadership, Co-Captain for Baseball, Section IX AA Baseball Champions, Times Herald Record “The 9 That Shine”

Community Service:  Lap4Life Foundation Youth Track Program and Running Mentor, Hudson Valley Bulldogs 10U Catching Coach, New Paltz Baseball Clinic Volunteer Coach

Future Plans:  Rochester Institute of Technology to major in Computing Security; accepted to RIT’s Combined Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree Program; playing Baseball

ATTENTION: Are your scholars or colleagues doing something great? Please contact the district Communications Team at communications@necsd.net. We’d love to visit your class or event and/or post your pictures and recap to highlight the amazing accomplishments throughout our district!