This week’s Whiz Kid: Name: Jack Giblin Age: 16 Activities: Saint John's Prep Sailing Team, Children's Island Camp Counselor What Makes Jack so Awesome? While most sixteen year olds are busy getting their driver’s licenses and tooling around town, Jack Giblin takes time to give back to the community. Giblin, a sophmore at St. John’s Prep, took on a service project to collect shoes for needy children all over the world. Through the organization, Soles4Souls (http://www.soles4souls.org/) Jack collected new and gently used shoes. The shoes were turned in at Allen Edmonds Shoe store on Newbury …

This week’s Whiz Kid: Name: Ronan Fitzpatrick Cunningham Age: 12 Activities: Marblehead Youth Hockey, Gerry 5 volunteer What Makes Ronan so Awesome? Ronan has been on skates since he could walk, spending hours on Redd’s Pond with his mom perfecting his technique. He and his family have hosted visiting hockey players from Canada on the Marblehead/St. Lambert hockey exchange. Ronan plays in goal, and has been part of Marblehead Youth Hockey since he was five. Ronan aspires to play in the NHL like one of his favorite goalies, former Boston College star Cory Schneider, now with the Vancouver …

Name: Cameron Saltsman Age: 9  Grade: 4 Interests: Theater, Singing, Art, Animals, Gardening What Makes Cameron so Awesome? Despite being a sister, daughter and devoted pet owner to both a hedgehog and Russian tortoise, Cam is also Scrooge, Red Riding Hood, and the Red Queen -- well, at least when she's performing on the stage! Cameron is a talented actress and singer who's amazing power of imagination has earned her a slew of starring roles with the Marblehead Little Theater. Whether on the stage or in her backyard garden, Cam knows how to make fun and fantasy come alive. This perpetually …

This week’s Whiz Kid: Name: Sophie Hauck Age: 8 Activities: YMCA Swim team, reading, writing stories What Makes Sophie so Awesome? Sophie Hauck is your average eight year old, if average means working with the Marblehead Conservancy on a recycling project, volunteering with Journeys of Hope and participating in the state finals of Oddesy of the Mind.  Sophie enjoys helping others and the community, which is why she got involved with a recycling project for the Marblehead Conservancy.  In her work with Journeys of Hope, an organization dedicated to helping homeless young adults, Sophie along …

Each week, Marblehead Patch highlights a kid in the community who is doing something special. To nominate someone for Monday's Whiz Kid, e-mail owen.boss@patch.com This week's Whiz Kid is:  Name: Mairead Bresnahan Age: 12 Grade: 6 Activity: Step dancing competitions. What makes this whiz kid so awesome? Mairead Bresnahan loves Irish step dancing which, if you couldn't tell from her name, is in her blood. Mairead's mother danced as a child in Ireland and her father, though he won't admit it, also knows a jig or two. Even at her young age, Mairead has taken her cultural heritage and dancing to …

Each week, Marblehead Patch highlights one kid doing something great in the community.  If you have someone you think should be our whiz kid, e-mail owen.boss@patch.com This week's Whiz Kid is: Name: Sharon Maloney Age: 14 Grade: 8, Marblehead Community Charter Public School Activities: Spring Track, Puppet Theater, ActingWhat makes Sharon so awesome? Sharon believes that “Community service is cool.” At the Charter School, 25 hours of community service is required for 8th graders, but Sharon currently has 37 and a half hours. She is part of a program that brings “Kids on the Block” a puppet …

Each week, Marblehead Patch highlights a kid in the community, doing something good. This week's whiz kid was nominated by her proud mother Keri Cahill.  To nominate someone for Monday's Whiz Kid, e-mail Katherine@Patch.com This week's Whiz Kid is:  Name: Anastasia Cahill ( goes by 'Nastia') Age: 17 Grade: 10, home schooled but hoping to go to Essex Aggie in the fall. Activities: Nastia is active in her youth group at Immaculate Conception in Salem. She has been back to her homeland ( Siberia)  four times since she was adoped in 2005. She acts as her mother's translator when they visit the …

Each week, Marblehead Patch highlights one kid doing something great in the community.  If you have someone you think should be our whiz kid, e-mail Katherine@Patch.com This week's Whiz Kid is: Name: Maddie Miller Age: 12 Activities: interests are as varied as the weather and include skiing fast and loads of reading. She loves art projects and oil painting at the Acorn Gallery. Hockey--ice or field--and roller-coasters provide Maddie with as much of a thrill as museums, especially Ripley's. She loves writing. And more reading. What Makes Maddie so Awesome? Maddie has diligently worked with a …

We have some pretty cool kids in Marblehead and here at Patch, we want to feature them and the good things they do. If you know a kid in town you think should be featured, drop an e-mail to Katherine@Patch.com and we'll make sure they become a whiz kid.  Check back each Monday at 10 a.m. to see what local kid is this week's whiz. This week's Whiz Kid is: Name: Olivia Crouch Age: 11 Grade: 5 Activities: Softball, Sewing, SkiingWhat makes Olivia so awesome? Olivia surprised her mom and dad 3 1/2 months too early. A micro-preemie, she wasn’t much heavier than a can of soda. Today, she is a …

Each week, Marblehead Patch highlights a different Whiz Kid in the community. To nominate someone you know to be our Whiz Kid, e-mail Katherine@Patch.com This week's whiz kid is Nolan Raimo. After losing his dad Charlie to colon cancer, Raimo is raising money for Mass General Cancer clinic.  This week's Whiz Kid was nominated by Jodi Vigneron. In her nomination, Vigneron said, "following Charlie's death in 2009 after a long battle with colon cancer, Nolan started Running for a Cure, a fundraiser to help raise money for cancer research and clinics.""His father had been his inspiration for …

This week's whiz kids are Josh and Katie Tassinari. To nominate a whiz kid you know, e-mail Katherine@Patch.com or leave a comment in the comment box below. Each Monday, Marblehead Patch will feature a new whiz kid, making a difference.  Name: Josh and Katie Tassinari Age: 12, 8  School: Cohen Hillel Academy What Makes Him So Awesome? Josh Tassinari and his sister Katie spent a good deal of 2010 on a fund raising project to bring hope to hundreds of Haitian earthquake victims. In January, Josh saw coverage of the quake and the devastation and his first thoughts were about helping. But how …

Each Wednesday, Marblehead Patch features a different "whiz kid" in the community, making a difference. Do you know someone you would like to nominate? E-mail us at Katherine@Patch.com Or, leave a comment in the comment box below this story. Name: Nicole Frevold  Age: 12 School: Seventh Grade, Marblehead Veteran’s Middle School What Makes Nicole Awesome? Nicole Frevold may look like your ordinary seventh grader, texting away on her phone and chatting with friends, but in her chosen sport of badminton, she is a force to be reckoned with. Nicole just recently won the Connecticut Open, an adult …

Each Wednesday, Marblehead Patch will be featuring a different "Whiz Kid." If you know a kid you would like to nominate, leave a comment in the box below or e-mail Katherine@Patch.com Please provide, name, age, school and what makes them so awesome.  This Week's Whiz Kid: Andrew Wanstall  Age: 11 School: Marblehead Village School Church: St. Stephen’s Church Club/Sport: International Tae Kwon Do Academy, Marblehead School of Music Accomplishment: Andrew Wanstall, a fifth grader at the Village School manages to keep his schedule busy and his family even busier. He even volunteers to help …