TALCOTT MOUNTAIN STUDENTS GO ON TO DO GREAT THINGS.

The Talcott Mountain Academy prides itself with the amount of successful and well-adjusted students who graduate and go on to make a difference in their world. These students then graduate from such prestigious schools as Avon Old Farms, Choate-Rosemary Hall, Loomis Chaffee, Phillips Exeter Academy, Miss Porter's School, Suffield Academy, Watkinson, Taft School, Kingswood-Oxford, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Tufts, Columbia, Penn State, NYU, Harvard, Berkeley, Trinity, MIT, GWU, RPI, WPI, Syracuse, and Stanford, among others. Many of these students come back and teach current generations of students at the Academy.

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NOTABLE ALUMNI

Dr. David Speyer
Academy graduate, 1994
David Speyer received his Ph.D. in June 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Bernd Sturmfels. Much of his research is in the emerging area of tropical geometry, to which he has contributed both fundamental results as well as applications, e.g., a new proof of Horn's conjecture on eigenvalues of hermitian matrices and (with Lior Pachter) the reconstruction of phylogentic trees from subtree weights. His current research interests include continuing work in tropical geometry, cluster algebras and the geometry of grassmannians and flag varieties. He is now a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, funded by a prestigious, five-year Clay Research Fellowship.

Dr. Greg Banever
Academy graduate, 1986
A graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine, Greg is a pediatric surgeon at the Baystate Medical Center Children's Hospital.

Martha Spencer
Academy graduate, 1998
Martha Spencer completed her meteorology degree at Embry Riddle Aeuronautical University in 2006. She is now a weekend meteorologist for WTVY News, Alabama.

David Braue
Academy graduate, 1986
David is a regular contributor to one of Australia's most widely read and influential IT publications, Jetstar, specializing in information and communications technology, technical, and scientific writing.

Idania Peralta
Academy graduate, 1996
After her graduation from Hartford High School, she received a four-year, $16,000 Fine Arts scholarship to the University of Connecticut, after her National Guard service for 2003's Operation Enduring Freedom. She is now part of the Talcott Mountain Academy faculty.

Shari Wiseman
Academy graduate, 1998
Shari Wiseman, the valedictorian of the TMA class of 1998, has won the Siemens Westinghouse Award for Advanced Placement. The award is given to two girls and two boys from six regions in the country with the highest scores on the greatest number of math and science Advanced Placement (AP) Exams. As a result of winning the award, Shari was invited to an awards ceremony in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and receieved a $3,000 scholarship. Shari is "certain that she would not have won this award without the foundation in math and science she gained at the Academy." She went on to say that she "strongly recommends the school to any gifted child with a passion for learning, even if he or she hasn't discovered it yet." Shari attended Glastonbury High School, is currently a graduate student at Yale University, and also volunteers at the Science Center's Saturday and Summer programs.

Saheli Sadanand
Academy graduate, 1999
Saheli completed her undergraduate degree in Biophysics and Biochemistry and is now a graduate student at Yale.

Bryan Nagy
Academy graduate, 1990
Bryan is at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, working on a robotic fork-lift. As part of the Robotics Institute at CMU, they are developing automated systems for packing and unpacking truck trailers and containers.

Ariana Feldberg
Academy graduate, 1990
Ari, a marine biologist, is part of the team creating an aquaculture of oysters, clams, and scallops for the Wampanoag Tribe in Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard Island. She presented this work to an enthusiastic crowd of students at the academy this past March.