Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth statewide awards ceremony for gifted children was recently held at Rider University. Second through sixth graders took the SCAT test, an above-level test scaled for younger children. Seventh and eighth graders took the SAT or ACT, the same test used for college admissions.##M:[more]##
Awards for high honors in grades two to six were received by the following:
Maurice Hawk students include Sergey Abadjev, Matthew Antony, Pablo Cardenas, Kiruthika Devasenapathy, Stephanie Ding, and Mrigank Saksena. Dutch Neck School students include Joseph Gonnella, Siddharth Ray, Alexander Taylor, Wesley Yuan, and Tiffany Ge. Town Center students include Stephanie Ji, Leora Senter, and Mariya Zhdanova.
Millstone River School students include Rooble Bagga, Ernest Chiu, Timothy Chong, Shaurya Luthra, Arup Mukherjee, Varun Rajesh, Felix Su, Harika Vedati, Albert Yang, Cody Yang, and Boxong Yin. Village School students include Oishi Bhattacharya, Priscilla Chan, Victoria Chan, Travis Chan, Victoria Chan, Annam Iyer, Arnav Sood, and Yvonne Yu.
Community Middle School students include Anitha Ahmed, Thea Ma, Richard Wang, Angel Weng, Claire Su, and Matthew Zang. Grover Middle School students include Rohan Gupta, Yun-Ah Park, Sanjana Phatak, Ainsley Reid, Katherine So, and Thomas Weng.
Nor-Ul Iman School students include Obaid Haque and Tasneem Maner of Plainsboro. The Cathedral School students includes Ben Herrera of West Windsor.
Awards for high honors in grades seven and eight were received by the following:
Grover Middle School students include Maksim Abadjev, Sarah Antony, Daniel Chen, Christina Chun, Sharon Gao, Peter Hopper, Sarath Jaladi, Hannah Jin, Albert Lee, Jihoon Lee, Shreya Luthra, Akhil Midha, Urvashi Pathania, Niharika Ray, Kaustav Shah, Christopher So, Jerry Xu, Anna Yang, Elizabeth Yang, Emily Yang, Julia Yang, Steven Yang, Bocong Yin, Cathy Yin, and Alexander Yu.
Community Middle School students include Omar Ahmed, Brian Hui, Vikram Kesavabhotla, Joanna Kuang, Albert Lu, Robin Mukherjee, Tanisha Patni, Aneesha Raghunathan, Shivang Patel, Sonia Shah, Eugene Tang, Ajit Unnam, Rohan Varty, Rithwik Vedati, Katherine Wang, William Whipple, Richard Wong, Melissa Xu, Derek Yan William Ying Jr., and Michael Zhou.
Home school students include Neil Bedi, Krishna Bikkasani, and Brandon Kaplowitz, all of West Windsor. Also, Jonathan Falzon, Plainsboro, Saint Paul School; Nicole Keim, West Windsor, Stuart Country Day School; Atif Salahudeen, Plainsboro, Nor-Ul-Iman School; David Szemis, West Windsor, Saint Gregory the Great School; Rujul Zaparde, Plainsboro, Princeton Day School; and Raymond Zhang, West Windsor, Scicore Academy.
For information about the program visit www.jhu.edu.