Two Highland County high school seniors receive Honda-Ohio State Math Medal Award
Two high-achieving Highland County high school seniors received the Honda/OSU Partnership Math Medal Award from a partnership between Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. and The Ohio State University.
The award recognizes the top senior mathematics student in each high school near Honda operations in southwestern and central Ohio.
Math Medal winners from Highland County and their high schools are Nathan Boone of Hillsboro High School and Brenna Simmons of Fairfield Local High School.
This is the fourth anniversary of the Southwest region Math Medal Awards, presented by the Honda-Ohio State Partnership Program, a university-industry partnership that supports programs in education and research to benefit the transportation industry.
This year, 92 seniors, the highest number yet, received the award.
The Southwestern Ohio Region Math Medal Award event was held Oct. 27 at the GE Aviation Learning Center in Cincinnati to honor 88 top math students from 16 area counties.
The scholars were joined by family members, teachers and friends to receive their math medal from the dean of the Ohio State College of Engineering.
Recognized as their school’s top math student in the Class of 2013, each student received a pewter math medal, plaque and $100 gift card from Honda of America Manufacturing and Ohio State University’s College of Engineering.
In addition, the math medal award comes with a $3,000 scholarship opportunity at Ohio State’s College of Engineering for the 2013-2014 academic year. Over the past three years, 15 Southwest region Math Medal recipients have gone on to receive the $3,000 scholarship at Ohio State’s College of Engineering.
"We are pleased to recognize these outstanding math students for their academic achievements," said David B. Williams, dean, Ohio State College of Engineering.
"We hope this award encourages these students to put their talents to use in a career in engineering and to further their education at Ohio State."
The Honda-Ohio State Partnership Program is a unique collaboration between Ohio State and Honda of America Manufacturing that supports initiatives in education, research and public service to positively impact students, faculty, public and private sector practitioners, and the transportation industry as a whole.
Honda operates two auto plants and engine and transmission plants in Ohio, along with a major vehicle research and development center and engineering, logistics and purchasing operations in the state. With 16,000 associates — including more than 1,000 engineers — Honda of America Manufacturing is one of Ohio’s largest private employers.
Ohio State’s College of Engineering places 17th nationally among public university engineering programs ranked by U.S. News and World Report, and its nearly 7,200 undergraduate students choose from 14 different engineering majors.
More information about the Honda-Ohio State Partnership Program is available at www.honda.osu.edu.
Courtesy of
Candi Clevenger
Interim Editor
College of Engineering
Public Relations Coordinator,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
& The ElectroScience Lab
The Ohio State University