SKA seniors honored for achievements

Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls class of 2018 honorees valedictorian is Ayelet Aharon. She is an Advanced Placement scholar, National Merit Scholarship commended student and Science Olympiad team captain and Gold medalist.

Editor-in-chief of Skappenings and Parsha Press, captain of the Torah Bowl Team, and head of production choir, she is also a SPARKS committee head and the recipient of both the Tanach and Keter Torah awards.

A teacher-nominated Long Island American Chemistry award winner for outstanding scholastic achievement in high school chemistry, she is a member of the Reut National Honor Society, on the Model Congress and math teams, and serves as a SKA ambassador during school open houses.

Aharon is a Kulanu volunteer, working with special needs children, and received the UJA Robert A. Belfer Family Fellowship Award for leadership and community service. She will be attending Michlalah next year and then continuing her studies at Stern College for Women Honors Program.

Salutatorian Shoshana Rockoff is also an editor-in- chief of Skappenings and Parsha Press, and of the Holocaust Journal. She captained the Debate Team. Her academic schedule includes three AP and four honors classes, the maximum SKA allows.

A Head Ambassador student representative and leader of SKA’s tefillah committee, she is involved with NORPAC, a group that promotes relations with Israel, and represented the school when it met with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer.

A member of the Reut National Honors Society, SKA Math Team, Model Congress, Rockoff was the recipient of SKA’s Tanach Award for excellence in Judaic studies. She was also active in many of the school’s organizations including TTYL, MACs and SPARKS.

She also dedicates time to Friendship Circle and tutoring chemistry. Rockoff also plays on SKA’s soccer, volleyball and softball teams. Chosen by her peers to receive the Middot Award for outstanding character, she will be attending Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim next year and then continuing her studies at Stern College Honors Program.

Aliza Rothman was voted the Keter Shem Tov award winner by her peers. Head of production, sports editor of the yearbook, and Color War general, her family moved to Canada and she was greatly missed by her classmates; she returned for junior year.  

Rothman also volunteers at Kulanu, I-Shine and the Jewish Education Program and is involved in SKA’s Kiruv Club. This year, she brought Operation SOS (Support Our Soldiers) to the school, an initiative that supports American troops overseas. She will be attending Michlalah next year and then continuing her studies at Touro College for Women.