• Holly Hedberg
• Hannah Peckham
• Elizabeth Shell

• Danielle Bäck
• Grace Ballor
• Elizabeth Cannon
• Brance Hudzietz
• Chelsea Pennington-Krygier
• Mary Thomas

• Aaron Benson

Boys State Representatives:

• Ben Blankenship
• Robert Cronemeyer
• Tre O'Neil
• Mark Bensel

Girls State Representatives:

• Page Prokop
• Erika David
• Marissa Flogel
• Jennifer Wagner
• Melinda Macia

• Danielle is TPA’s first Flinn Scholar. She plans to attend ASU’s Barrett Honors College next fall.
• Danielle has also won the AIA 2007-2008 Scholar-Activity Participant of the Year Award. This is sponsored by the Arizona Interscholastic Association. Danielle will participate in a televised awards ceremony, and will hopefully win additional scholarship dollars to the college of her choice.
• Danielle Bäck is a recipient of the Robert C. Byrd Scholarship. The Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program is a federally funded program for high school graduates who show academic excellence and the promise of continued postsecondary education for a maximum of four years to be applied toward undergraduate study at any accredited college or university in the United States.

• TPA Senior Holly Hedberg has been selected as the winner of a National Merit $2500 Scholarship. This scholarship is underwritten by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) with its own funds. Although all students who attain Finalist standing in the National Merit Scholarship Program are distinguished, unfortunately not all Finalists receive a National Merit Scholarship. The National Merit Program is very competitive, and in recent years, just over half of the 15,000 Finalists have been selected to be Merit Scholar awardees.
• Holly Hedberg won the AFA Teens for Alzheimer’s Awareness, sponsored Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, $5000 scholarship. (AFA Teens is a branch of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America).

• TPA senior Mary Thomas has received the $4000 Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc. Scholarship, a Special Scholarship from National Merit Scholarship Corporation sponsored by Bridgestone Firestone Trust Fund.

• TPA junior Marissa Flogel has been selected as a student ambassador for People to People and will travel to Italy, Germany and France this summer. www.studentambassador.org

• TPA junior, Amalia Skilton has won Arizona’s 2008 Law Day Scholarship Essay Contest, sponsored by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education. The essay was required to be on the topic “How Should the Courts Uphold the Rule of Law?” As part of her prize, Amalia is invited to have lunch with Arizona Supreme Court Justices. By the way - Amalia won the 2007 essay contest, too!
• Amalia Skilton won the Arizona State National History Day Contest. She will compete at the National Finals in Washington, D.C., June 15-19.
• Amalia Skilton was accepted to the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP). This is a highly competitive, 6-week seminar program, free to juniors. It had an acceptance rate of less than 10% this year. Amalia's program will be held at Cornell University.

To earn the prestigious Academic All-American award from the National Forensics League you must have:

• A GPA of at least 3.7
• An SAT score of 2100 or better
• At least a second semester junior
• A minimum of 750 NFL points

For 2008 we have two such team members:

• Claire Yee
• Amalia Skilton