The Lehighton Area Middle School recently held its Academic and Distinguished Eighth-Grade Awards Programs.

Student achievements in fifth, sixth and seventh grades are also as follows.

• The American Legion Auxiliary Award was presented to Holly Fasching.

• The American Legion Award was presented to Kurtis Gustafson.

• The Franklin Township Lions Award was presented to Megan Aaron and Zander Bauer.

Outstanding Effort awards were presented by each team.

Team 5-Iroquois: ELA, Emma Bonser; Math, Vanessa Busler; Science, Allee Maini; Social Studies, Abby Andrew

Team 5-Lenape: ELA, Savannah Reiss; Math, Savanna Wehr; Science, Brody Frable; Social Studies, Jake Lewis

Team 5-Trailblazers: ELA, Kira Gruber; Math, Chase Hower; Science, Jacob Andreas; Social Studies, Brionna White

Team 5-Voyagers: ELA, Timothy Arace; Math, Wyatt Taschler; Science, Emma Sherer; Social Studies, Jesse Waksmunski

Outstanding Student/Outstanding Effort awards were presented by each team.

Team 6-Maroon: ELA, Owen Serfass; Math, Abygail Frey; Science, Chloe Gustafson; Social Studies, Maxim Simbarskiy; Outstanding Effort, Michael Bowman

Team 6-White: ELA, Olivia Hoffman; Math, Elizabeth Troutman; Science, Gabriella Brown; Social Studies, Ciara Berhel; Outstanding Effort, Jackson Zacharias

Team 7-Maroon: ELA, Megan Hoffman; Accelerated Math, Eliza Andrew; Academic Math, Ava Beers; Applied Math, Isabelle Cressley; Life Science, Zachary Wilusz; History, Gabriella Di DEA; Outstanding Effort, Brenna Hunt

Team 7-White: ELA, Katherine Halenar; Accelerated Math, Katie Wojton; Academic Math, Jocelyn Wentz; Applied Math, Katryna Keck; Life Science, Jacob Shellhammer; Social Studies, Madelyn Sofranko; Outstanding Effort, Levi Monk

Team 8-Maroon: ELA, Kurtis Gustafson; Science, Jenna Gasker; Social Studies, Callie Hayman; Applied Math, Faith Ohl; Academic Math, Madalynne Cerami; Alegebra I, Madison Brown; Spanish, Callie Hayman; Outstanding Effort, Sherry Nametko

Team 8-White: ELA, Benjamin Slaw; Science, Cheyenna Roth; Social Studies, Megan Aaron; Applied Math, Marissa McNally; Academic Math, Taylor Mickley; Algebra I, Shayla Simek; Outstanding Effort, Collin Wentz

Tutors at LAMS: Emily Binder, Taylor Hadley, Kathleen Lindenmoyer, Maddyx Moser-Bergdahl, Tyler Rehrig, Shayla Simek, Skyy Steber and Collin Wentz

PSSA After-School Awards

PSSA After-School Awards were presented to students who stayed after school to prepare for the PSSA’s and achieved perfect attendance or highest growth.

Perfect attendance

Fifth grade: Collen Horn, Seth Michael, Olivia Sheckler and Wyatt Taschler

Sixth grade: McKenna Belcher, Elizabeth Buffington, Guadalupe Gonzalez and Kylee Whiteman

Seventh grade: Matthew Sofranko.

Highest growth

Fifth grade: ELA (tie), Collen Horn and Cynthia Narvaez-Maldonado; Math (tie), Olivia Sheckler and Lorah Thomas

Sixth grade: ELA, Alexia McLaughlin; Math, McKenna Belcher

Seventh grade: ELA (tie), Isabelle Cressley and Allison Shaffer; Math, Matthew Sofranko

Eighth grade: ELA, Shelby Heater.

Music awards

Music awards were presented to the following:

Outstanding Instrumentalist Award: Grade five, Isaac Carpenter; Grade six, Avery Hosler

Music Achievement Award: Grade five, Natalie Blair; grade six, Elizabeth Troutman; grade seven, Brenna Hunt; and grade eight, Leilani McClure

Director’s Award for seventh/eighth chorus: Megan Aaron and Logan Kester

Director’s Award for band: Gene Everett

President’s Awards

The recipients of the President’s Award for Academic Achievement are: Zander Bauer, Emily Binder, Madalynne Cerami, Gene Everett, Aaliyah Fisher, Alyssa Frey, Jenna Gasker, Antigone Gonzalez, Trey Gower, Ryan Graver, Erin Homm, Nicholas Hrusovsky, Leilani McClure, Hailey Miller, Jaiden Muffley, Alyssa Myers, Kyle Nahf, Sherry Nametko, Cecilia Sarnowski, Tret Solt, Skyy Steber and Cheyenne Whiteman.

The recipients of the President’s Award for Academic Excellence are: Megan Aaron, Madison Brown, Holly Fasching, Kurtis Gustafson, Callie Hayman, Abigail Meckes, Cheyenna Roth, Shayla Simek, Benjamin Slaw, Collin Wentz and Benjamin Zacharias.

Principal’s list

The principal’s list was awarded to:

Fifth grade: Abby Andrew, Natalie Blair, Emma Bonser, Vanessa Busler, Isaac Carpenter, Brielle Frable, Cora Fretz, Nathan Fry, Anna Howland, Kendra Kocher, Darcy Leiby, Jake Lewis, Allee Maini, Kaitlyn Oswald, Rowan Schaeffer, Jaxson Strauss, Jesse Waksmunski and Savanna Wehr

Sixth grade: Ciara Berhel, Gabriella Brown, Allison Foeller, Emma Hertweck, Olivia Hoffman, Jude Litts, Maddyx Moser-Bergdahl, Madyson Moser-Bergdahl, Owen Serfass, Elizabeth Troutman, Koy Wentz and Jackson Zacharias

Seventh grade: Eliza Andrew, Christian Busler, Gabriella Di DEA, Mariah Eckley, Austin Greene, Katherine Halenar, Ayden Hand, Megan Hoffman, Daniel Hoppes, Brenna Hunt, Kimberly Lauer, Levi Monk, Isabella Mystkowski, Riley Nothstein, Makayla Sabatino, Madelyn Sofranko, Dakota Trach, Brynn Wentz, Zachary Wilusz, Katie Wojton, Madylin Wolter and Faith Yeakel

Eighth grade: Megan Aaron, Zander Bauer, Madison Brown, Holly Fasching, Jenna Gasker, Kurtis Gustafson, Callie Hayman, Hailey Miller, Alyssa Myers, Sherry Nametko, Cheyenna Roth, Cecilia Sarnowski, Shayla Simek, Benjamin Slaw and Collin Wentz.

The following students were on the principal’s list all four years at the middle school: Megan Aaron, Madison Brown, Jenna Gasker, Kurtis Gustafson, Cheyenna Roth and Benjamin Slaw.

Perfect attendance

Perfect attendance for the 2017-2018 school year

Fifth grade: Asa Andrew, Vanessa Busler, Thomas DeVore, Brielle Frable, Michael Gelatko, John Light, Aliyah Nothstein, Savannah Reiss, Emma Sherer, Wyatt Smith, Jaxson Strauss, Emmalyse Vavra, Jesse Waksmunski and Brionna White

Sixth grade: Reese Balk, Abby Bauder, Sativa Bringhurst, Robert Dwojewski, Makayla Gaston, Guadalupe Gonzalez, Madison Long, Madison Outlaw, Aiden Rarick, Joseph Roth, Alexander Thomas, Andrew Versuk, Jayden Weitknecht and Kylee Whiteman.

Seventh grade: Eliza Andrew, Zack Balk, Rachael Carr, James DeVore, Taylor Fritz, Haley Ginder, Ayden Hand, Brenna Hunt, Alexis Kester, Layla Kunkle, Levi Monk, Isabella Mystkowski, Riley Nothstein, Cole Smith, Madilynn Stoffey and Joshua Swatt.

Eighth grade: Troy Bogert, Madison Brown, Byron DePaz, Gene Everett, Aaliyah Fisher, Jenna Gasker, Isabella Hoffman, Nicholas Hrusovsky, Brayden Lutz, Cassidy McGee, Mia Miller, Faith Ohl, Tyler Rehrig, Cheyenna Roth, Tate Sharrow, Devin Warnkin and Gracie Williams.

Perfect attendance all four years: Aaliyah Fisher

The final program for the school year ended with the moving-up ceremony of the seventh- and eighth-grade class on the students’ last day of June 18.