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Davis Kahmann and Sean Datar, two outstanding seniors from Minuteman High School in Lexington, have earned recognition for exemplary character, leadership and scholastic excellence.
Kahmann, of Arlington, who is in the engineering program, is the school’s Massachusetts Association of Vocational Administrators (MAVA) and the Massachusetts Vocational Association (MVA) Outstanding Vocational-Technical Student of 2017. He, along with other distinguished student honorees from vocational-technical high schools and programs across the Commonwealth, will be honored at the 31st Annual Outstanding Vocational Student Award Dinner at Mechanics Hall in Worcester on April 13.
Kahmann has excelled in his classes, including honors and advanced-placement English. He won the Brown University Book Award for writing last year. Over the summer, he participated in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory – Radar Introduction for Student Engineers program in Lexington, building small radar systems. This is a two-week summer residential workshop that is limited to 18 students. He was also awarded a paid co-op/internship position designing educational programs scheduled to be launched this summer featuring radio-controlled cars and drones.
He has been a group leader in the Team America Rocket Competition, constructing rockets. Kahmann also volunteers at a food pantry, has been a member of both the National Honor Society and the Math Team for two years, and is a John and Abigail Adams Scholar.
Datar, of Acton, is studying robotics and is Minuteman’s 2017 nominee for the Walter J. Markham Award. This honor is sponsored by MAVA and MVA. Walter Markham was a pioneer in vocational-technical education in Massachusetts.
Mr. Datar plans to study electrical engineering in college and intends to go to graduate school. He has already been accepted to Purdue University and is awaiting responses from other colleges.
His extracurricular activities include varsity cross-country running in grades 9-12 (team captain in his junior and senior year), class officer in grades 9, 11 and 12 (freshman vice president and president in junior and senior year) and varsity swimming in grades 10-12 (co-captain in senior year). In 2015, Datar was a camp counselor in the College Academy Summer Program.
Minuteman has distinguished itself by building a reputation for excellence. Minuteman students consistently excel on the larger stage and have won numerous awards at state and national competitions. Minuteman challenges all students to revolutionize their high school expectations by aspiring to their full potential, accelerating their learning, and achieving success in the 21st-century global community.
This news announcement was published Thursday, March 9, 2017.
