Senior Regional Orchestra
The students listed below auditioned for and were accepted into the 2018-2019 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra and will be absent from school this upcoming Friday, November 9th for rehearsals:
Violin:
Maxence Mouries, 1st violin
Eshan Parkash, 1st violin
Emma Guo, 2nd violin
Viola:
Charlie Tucker
Cello:
Steve Han
Bass:
Lucas Zurbuchen
Alex Haldane
Piccolo:
Stephanie Poore
Bb Clarinet:
Alexander Swers
French Horn:
Kevin Jung
Varun Veluri
The above students auditioned alongside students from Fairfax County, Arlington County, Alexandria City, Falls Church City, private and home schools and were chosen to perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Marche Slav and Gustav Holst's Symphony No.1, Movement IV on Saturday, November 10th.
 Pictured: Back Row: Alex Haldane, Eshan Parkash, Varun Veluri, Alexander Swers, Kevin Jiang, Charlie Tucker, Steve Han, Lucas Zurbuchen. Front Row: Emma Guo, Stephanie Poore, Maxence Mouries.
Hackathon Competition
Two McLean High School Seniors, John Mutersbaugh & Jules Le Menestrel, received one of the few awards and prizes at the "Hackathon" Event (by Major League Hacking) held at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, VA. This was an overnight competition lasting over 24 hours. John and Jules worked as a team on their coding/programming project which they named: Saving the Ocean With Neural Networks. They attended workshops, worked through the night on their project, and then presented it to the judges on Sunday morning November 4th. Both John and Jules received the award for best overall theme, and each were given an Amazon Echo Dot device and a business card with an invitation to send their resumes to Decipher Technology Studios in Alexandria, VA. Many middle and high school students from all over attended the event. We are very proud of the boy's outstanding accomplishment and the outstanding way they represented McLean High!
 Pictured left to right: John Mutersbaugh and Jules Le Menestrel
Eagle Scout Project
Rob Langston, Boy Scour Troop 1130, completed his Eagle Scout Project. Rob built four picnic tables for our snack bar area. Congratulations and thanks for a job well done!
 Pictured: Robert Langston
Savedge Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholastic Journalism
McLean’s yearbook and newsmagazine are recipients of the Colonel Charles E. Savedge Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholastic Journalism. There are only 13 recipients of this award in the Virginia. A school must earn at least five Trophy Class awards in the seven years. The current award honors those publications that qualified between 2012-2018. Congratulations to advisors Lindsay Benedict and Meghan Percival!
Dance Team
Varsity Dance Team won the Regional Grand Champions Award at the Dance Team Union competition! Their jazz routine, in addition to placing first in the varsity jazz category, was awarded the best performance in the entire competition! While the team has won numerous first place awards in the past, this is the first time the team has ever won the Grand Champions Award at any competition. Congratulations to our Varsity Dance Team!
 Pictured: McLan Varsity Dance Team
Football All-District Team
First Team
David Onyejekwe - Linebacker
Second Team
David Onyejekwe - Offensive Line
Joe Lokke - Wide Receiver/Defensive Backer
Evan Stout - Wide Receiver
Greg Beard - Defensive Line
Honorable Mention
Logan Johnson - Quarterback
Ben Davis - Running Back
Anthony Laborde - Defensive Line
Alec Butler - Linebacker
 Pictured left to right: Ben Davis, Alec Butler, Logan Johnson, Evan Stout, Joe Lokke, David Onyejekwe, Anthony Laborde, Greg Beard
College Signing Day
Congratulations to our athletes on their commitment to continue their athletic career in college next year!
JaneAnne Tvedt - Virginia Tech - Track and Field
Ella Sangree - Columbia University - Lacrosse
Gracen Govan - Tufts University - Softball
Kendall Robertson- Rice University- Soccer
 Pictured left to right: JaneAnne Tvedt, Ella Sangree, Gracen Govan, Kendall Robertson 
American Ninja Warrior Jr. - Max Feinberg
Max Feinberg will be appearing on American Ninja Warrior Jr. on Saturday December 8th at 7pm on Universal Kids. The Sun Gazette wrote up an article about Max and his experience. Plus, the McLean Broadcast News students did a feature on Max as well. Watch Max as he competes on the 8th!
https://www.insidenova.com/sports/mclean-freshman-becomes-standout-on-american-ninja-warrior-junior/article_cf77e994-ed9e-11e8-acd7-a3a569e5461b.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am6_v8X1XXs&t=6s
 Veterans' Day at McLean
Per our school's tradition, we celebrated Veterans Day with American Legion Post 270. Students, Justin Ngo and Caroline Raymond, shared the importance of Veterans' Day and Finn Marks played Taps at the service. It is a special day at McLean and one we all value.
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