Samuel James Cooper, son of David and Daun Cooper of Oviedo, will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Feb. 18, 2017, at Temple Shir Shalom in Winter Springs.

Sam is in the seventh grade at Jackson Heights Middle School where he plays piano, clarinet and saxophone in the Jazz Band and Symphonic Band. His hobbies include defeating his current record of 37 seconds for solving a Rubik's Cube.

He is also a member of Little SHFTY at Temple Shir Shalom.

Sharing in the family's simcha wil be his sister, Sarah; grandmother, Sheila Cooper, and great-grandmother, Gert Friedman.