{"id":227,"date":"2013-02-21T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=227"},"modified":"2013-02-26T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T19:03:56","slug":"princess-anne-seniors-receive-national-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/princess-anne-seniors-receive-national-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne, Ocean Lakes seniors receive national recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no wonder that Princess Anne High School seniors Sumedha Deshmukh and John Marken\u00a0and Ocean Lakes senior Alexander Skidmore are 2013 candidates in the Presidential Scholars Program\u00a0sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. These\u00a0community-minded students not only excel at academics, but at inspiring others as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sumedha-Deshmukh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-228\" alt=\"Sumedha Deshmukh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sumedha-Deshmukh-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Deshmukh serves as city-wide SCA Vice President where she is active in outreach programs. She has worked with leadership workshops at Old Donation Center, Kemps Landing Magnet School and Princess Anne.\u00a0 Enrolled in the International Baccalaureate\u00a0 program at Princess Anne,\u00a0Deshmukh volunteers with Sentara Hospital and\u00a0interned last summer with Physicians for Peace, a group that sponsors health care teams in underserved regions of the world.\u00a0Deshmukh to concentrate on global health issues in her college studies.<\/p>\n<p>Marken\u00a0is enrolled in\u00a0the IB program and is a current member of the Fabulous Marching<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/John-Marken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-229\" alt=\"John Marken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/John-Marken-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Cavaliers band, playing clarinet in the concert band and saxophone in the jazz band. He attended the Middle Years Program at Plaza Middle School. Active in volunteering at St. Michael Lutheran Church, Marken is a member of both the National Honor Society and the Science Honor Society. He plans to study sciences in college, perhaps in the area of genetics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alexander-Skidmore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-233\" alt=\"Alexander Skidmore\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alexander-Skidmore-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Skidmore is a native of the Tidewater area, having lived in both Norfolk and Virginia Beach.\u00a0 He attended Norfolk Academy until the tenth grade and then joined Ocean Lakes High School as a junior where he has been a key player on the football team.\u00a0 He plans to attend Duke University in the fall, studying Biomedical Engineering with the hopes of continuing on to medical school.\u00a0 He currectly lives in Virginia Beach with his parents, and has an older sister\u00a0who graduated from NYU and currently is an actress in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no wonder that Princess Anne High School seniors Sumedha Deshmukh and John Marken\u00a0and Ocean Lakes senior Alexander Skidmore are 2013 candidates in the Presidential Scholars Program\u00a0sponsored by the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}