• Huntersville resident Madeline Adolf, a ninth-grader who attends the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn., was honored, along with 200 other students, on March 27 at a ceremony at Johns Hopkins University for her exceptionally high score on the reading section of the ACT. Madeline, who took the test as an eighth-grader in 2010, earned the opportunity for recognition by participating in the annual talent search organized by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. She was home schooled during the sixth through eighth grades and has previously attended Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy, a charter school in Charlotte for highly gifted children.

• Philippe Boss, a 2010 Hopewell High School graduate and first-year student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has accepted a membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Boss will be honored during a induction convocation this fall on the university’s campus. The society is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is the nation’s only interdisciplinary honors organization for first- and second-year college students. Membership is by invitation only, based on grade point average and class standing.