The Lehighton Area Middle School held its Academic and Distinguished Award Program recently.

Outstanding Student/Outstanding Effort awards were presented by each team.

Team 6, maroon: ELA - Lucinda Sander, math - Cash White, science - Ben Houser, social studies - Connor Stay, STEAM - Connor Stay, most creative - Braxton Hricik and Lucinda Sander, most improved - Thomas Caprio and Natasha Makoumbou, outstanding effort - Madelyn Minnich and Cash White, CITIZENSHIP - Carter Williams

Team 6, white: ELA Claudia Pagotto, math - Jace Graver, science - Asher Birchak, social studies - Dominic Szoke, STEAM - Anna Hawk, most creative - Stella Leininger and Santiago Lopez, most improved - Dominic Lawrence and Ava Sterling, outstanding effort - Kelsey Long and Noah Lusch, citizenship - Morgan Bronko

Team 7, maroon: ELA - Ava Trach, accelerated math - Molly Zacharias, academic math - Lukas Romano, science - Molly Zacharias, history - Adam Danner, most creative - Henry DeVore and Serenity Foreaker, most improved - Adam Danner and Marley Yorke, outstanding effort - Henry DeVore and Bella Moyer, citizenship - Cove Schaeffer

Team 7, white: ELA - Victoria Nied, accelerated math - Nolan Strauss, academic math - Nathan Dubow, science - Taylor Moyer, social studies - Jed Cordes, most creative - Delilah Arndt and Aiden Wowk, most improved - Layla Hess and Noah Wentz, outstanding effort - Noah Bauder and Charlotte Griffiths, citizenship - Hamilton Traylor

Team 8, maroon: ELA - Madison Serfass, science - Blake Roberts, social studies - Konner Nalesnik, applied math - Danny Edgar, academic math - Jonathan Dubow, Algebra I - Abigail Ehrig, most creative - Jonathan Dubow and Caeley Hinkson, most improved - Danny Edgar and Diem McGee, outstanding effort - Nicholas Gaumer and Hailey Heimbach, citizenship - Aiden Solt

Team 8, white: ELA - Sofia Bastone, science - Alyssa Yturrino, social studies - Steven Lilly, applied math - Byun Miller, academic math - Abigail Christman, Algebra I - Jon Troutman, most creative - Sierra Fairchild and Kaden Walck, most improved - Julian Edwards and Kamryn Krause, outstanding effort - Elijah Pagotto and Zoe Rodgers, citizenship - Elijah Pagotto

Distinguished eighth grade awards

The American Legion Auxiliary Award was presented to Chloe Moyer.

The American Legion Award was presented to Elijah Pagotto.

The recipients of the President’s Award for Academic Achievement were awarded to the following: Sofia Bastone, Matthew Burns, Autumn Clewell, Bekim Cokrlija, Patrick Devitt, Cole Dietz, Gabriel Ebbert, Abigail Ehrig, Sierra Fairchild, Nicholas Gaumer, Amanda Gowin, Mia Guy, Hailey Heimbach, Caeley Hinkson Carter Hontz, Ava Houser, Noelle Kalbach, Joslynn Leupold, Marissa Lilly, Mylee Lutsko, Chloe Moyer, Konner Nalesnik, Blake Roberts, Zoe Rodgers, Alexander Sebelin, Madison Serfass, Olivia Serfass, Morgan Shaffer, Shelby Simek, Aiden Solt, Abby Steigerwalt, Brady Stubits, Jon Troutman, Leah Uyvari, Kaden Walck, Ashton Wentz and Evan Wentz.

The recipients of the President’s Award for Academic Excellence were awarded to the following: Cameron Fisher, Claire Foeller, Elijah Pagotto and Clair Strohl.

Distinguished honors

The Distinguished Honors were awarded to:

Sixth grade: Asher Birchak, Alexis Gelatko, Jace Graver, Ben Houser, Madelyn Minnich, Claudia Pagotto, Lucinda Sander, Connor Stay, Addison Streubel and Dominic Szoke

Seventh grade: Noah Bauder, Jed Cordes, Henry DeVore, Charlotte Griffiths, Sawyer Hoffman, Ella McDonough, Bella Moyer, Brynn Mriss, Victoria Nied, Lorelai Norelli, Nolan Strauss, Abigail Wilusz and Molly Zacharias

Eighth grade: Abigail Christman, Autumn Clewell, Nicholas Gaumer, Bodie Hawk, Zoe Rodgers and Alyssa Yturrino

The following students had Distinguished Honors “All” three years at LAMS: Sofia Bastone, Cole Dietz, Gabriel Ebbert, Abigail Ehrig, Hailey Heimbach, Ava Houser, Chloe Moyer, Elijah Pagotto, Blake Roberts, Olivia Serfass, Aiden Solt, Abby Steigerwalt and Jon Troutman.