This year’s fifth annual Wheatley’s Got Talent competition took place on Monday night, the fist day of #Showdown2018.

The evening showcased the wonderful talents of our impressive student body. Organized by Wheatley’s Tri-M Music Honor Society and hosted by seniors Ally Wang and Ann Yan, the evening was an entertaining exhibition of the myriad of student talents in our school!

With the assistance of our five Class Advisor judges (Mr. Haig, Mr. Burke, Mrs. Roberts, and Mr. Paulson), six performance acts were evaluated, with three finalists performing a second time — with the winner being determined by the audience vote.

The competitors were:

• Adeel Anwar (Electric Violin)
• Megan Kirschner, Nicole Hetzel and Cecilia Jozef (aka, “Spectrum”) (Band)
• Alyssa Belle (Guitar)
• Bert Cumming and Matt Baltzer (rap/vocals)
• Hannah Weinberg and Cydney Siskind (vocals)
• Dan Fox, Mahesh Pitchayan, Billy Cafarelli, Max Hochstein and Mike Roudbai (aka, “The Moondogs”)

Based on the judge’s decision, the following acts advanced to the second round:

• • Megan Kirschner, Nicole Hetzel and Cecilia Jozef (aka, “Spectrum”) (Band)
  • Alyssa Belle (Guitar)
  • Dan Fox, Mahesh Pitchayan, Billy Cafarelli, Max Hochstein and Mike Roudbai (aka, “The Moondogs”)

   

At the end of the evening, Spectrum was declared winner of this year’s Wheatley’s Got Talent! Congratulations to Megan, Nicole and Ceci, who earned 25% of the ticket sales for the Class of 2018 and 2019! Finally, a huge “Thank You” to Angela Luftig and our Tri-M Music Honor Society for organizing this wonderful event!

[Thank you to Kavina Amin for some of the photos!]