The Omaha Public Schools is pleased to recognize the following staff and students for their academic, extracurricular and professional achievements.

• State Journalism medalists
  • Burke High Journalism: 8^th in the State Journalism Championship Class A Sweepstakes
  • Marianna Castelan Munoz and Tah Si Soe Thaw: 1^st in In-Depth Newspaper Coverage
  • Lucille Mason: 1^st in News Feature Photography
  • Nadia Quintanilla-Garcia, Shantania Arellano and Maria Ruiz-Garduno: 1^st in Yearbook Theme Development
  • Kayla Doll: 2^nd in Entertainment Review Writing and 6^th in Editorial Writing
  • Samantha Kendeigh: 2^nd in Newspaper Column Writing, 2^nd in Broadcast News Story and 7^th in Entertainment Review Writing
  • Hannah Ajogbeje, Payton Royal and Erin Carlson: 3^rd in Yearbook Theme Development
  • Olivia McCrossin: 3^rd in Editorial Cartooning
  • Carly Wilson: 3^rd in Newspaper Column Writing
  • April Roth: 4^th in Editorial Cartooning
  • Amber Roth: 4^th in Editorial Writing
  • Jeremiah Booth: 5^th in Editorial Writing
  • Anne Rogers: 5^th in Newspaper Column Writing
  • Payton Royal: 5^th place in Yearbook Layout
  • Eh Gay Pwood: 7^th in Yearbook Sports Feature Writing (double check)
  • Olouwatobi Noukpozounkou: 7^th in Newspaper Layout
  • Hannah Ajogbeje: 8^th in Yearbook Theme Copywriting
  • Isabella Booth: 8^th in Sports News Writing
  • Madeline DeMare: 8^th in Sports Action Photography
  • Maria Ruiz-Garduno: 8^th in Yearbook Layout
  • Olivia Wallace: 8^th in Newspaper Feature Writing
• Elias Kopp and Emilio Parra Garcia for earning an Outstanding Performance Award for instrumental solos at the district music contest.
• Hannah Polak for earning an Outstanding Performance Award for vocal solos at the district music contest.
• Oscar Castillo, a dual-language math teacher at South, for earning the UNO Department of Teacher Education’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
• McMillan Middle School’s seventh and eighth-grade Academic Pentathlon teams for scoring highest among all states in their region and continuing a 10-year tradition of national representation at the United States Academic Pentathlon.
• McMillan Middle School for earning second place at the Nebraska Science Olympiad.
• Nebraska Science Olympiad medalists
  • Zareena Abdesalam
  • Adam Bateman
  • Kaitlynn Cantrell
  • Gidion Davis
  • Brendon Gugulloti
  • Emerson Hicks
  • Chris Holtzclaw
  • Lily Kolb
  • Dexter Langton
  • Max Langton
  • Sadie Larkin
  • Max Long
  • Audra Morrison
  • Kyra Norris
  • Cara Travis
  • Hassan Whitmore
  • Braden Carne
  • Ptolemy Knoble
  • Luke Nieland
  • Claire Nipper
  • Joanne Pruett
  • Orion Schoell-Schafer
  • Shelby Storz
  • Yasmine Alhejaj
  • Zack Alhejaj
  • Keoni Anding
  • Legacy Durham
  • Andrew Marcoux
  • Sophia Kolb
  • Carlo Santos
  • Sneha Sengupta
  • Bowen Steffan
  • Ethan Whitaker