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St. Ed student honored at ceremony

Tyler Rossmanith, of Barnum, was recently honored at the University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center’s recognition ceremony.

The St. Edmond Catholic School student was among 700 from Iowa and across the nation that were recognized on Sept. 25 at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus.

Rossmanith was also given the opportunity to honor a teacher that had a profound influence on his life.

The teacher Rossmanith selected was sixth-grade teacher Carol Eide.

Students were recognized for exceptional performance in the Belin-Blank Center student talent search, receiving scholarships for Belin-Blank Center summer residential gifted programs and for being gold key awardees from the Scholastic Art and Writing program.

Other recognitions included students who presented research at the Iowa Junior Science Humanities Symposium, were awarded for the Invent Iowa State Invention Convention, participants in STEM Excellence and Leadership program or participants in the Secondary Student Training program.

Among those addressing honorees, teachers and guests were University of Iowa President Bruce Herreld, Gov. Terry Branstad and Dan Clay, dean from the university’s College of Education.

Engineering Dean Alec Scranton delivered the keynote address to teachers and Adetayo Oladele-Ajose delivered the keynote address to the students.

The Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development is an international full service gifted education center at the University of Iowa’s College of Education.

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