Teen a merit scholar, a mentor Her name is Madeline, like the little girl in the storybooks, but everyone calls the girl with the pink and green streaks in her dark hair Maddie. Maddie Cramer.
An only child, the 18-year-old graduated from South River High School in May and is attending her first week of classes at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Chatting a few days before her departure this mlb jerseys wholesale summer, the Davidsonville resident noted, "Mom's excited I'm going away to college, but Dad will cry."
Her dad, Blake "Cappy" Cramer, is a member of the Naval Academy Band. He plays the vibraphone and piano. Nancy, her mom, is a stay- at-home parent.
The Cramer family lives on a 15-acre farm. "We have two dogs, Buddy and Fluffer, both pound puppies. We also have Sarah, a miniature horse, and Dolly the Donkey," said Maddie. "My grandmother lives on one side of our farm and cousins are on the other, making a combined 40-acres called Jazz Berry. We raise blackberries and raspberries."
Maddie has grown up caring for the livestock, harvesting the annual crops and helping with truck stand sales.
Until recently, her family also kept a trailer at a campground in Solomon's Island year round. The Cramers would head south to relax along the bay or hunt for dinosaur fossils a little further north in Calvert County.
"I'm going to Carnegie Mellon to study chemical engineering. I want to work with the health-related pharmaceutical industry. Carnegie Mellon is good for all engineering and computer sciences," she said. "I visited three times, but I got the feeling on the first visit that this was perfect. It's in the city. It's small, but it has a campus."
The teen received a Merit Scholarship to attend the university. And, no wonder.
"By the end of the senior awards ceremony at school this past May, I'm pretty sure Maddie was exhausted from going up for so many different achievements and recognitions," said Ryan Sackett, South River's Technology Education Department chair.
Maddie was out of her seat to receive the top math and top chemistry student awards, the couple merit scholarship awards and a Presidential Award for Academic Excellence.
moncler jacket A family friend, Spencer Peterson, observed the teen is "smart, studious and independent of mind."
Last summer, Maddie and 39 other girls nationwide were selected from a field of 400 applicants to attend the month-long Women's Technology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "It's a program to help girls to become electrical engineers," she said.
Noting Maddie "is one of the more dynamic students I have encountered in my experience as an educator," Spanish instructor Jodie Hogan was pleased the Honors Spanish student furthered her studies with a 10-day educational tour in Costa Rica.
Of the MIT Women's Technology Program, Hogan said: "Madeline participated in extensive course work and learned how to apply various fundamentals of computer science, electrical engineering and discrete mathematics to real world applications."
Maddie agreed. "They taught us all the basics. Since I did that program, I was inspired to join the Robotics Team at South River. I had been too scared to sign up before."
As a member of the team's electrical group, Maddie helped puzzle out the wiring of their various robotic competitors. During a r
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