#b#In College#/b#
Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering at Binghamton University: Ross M. Hochman of Plainsboro received a bachelor of science degree in industrial systems engineering.
Fordham University: Sarah Caitlin Antony, a 2012 graduate of High School South, is on the dean’s list. She is a sophomore.
James Madison: Brieanna Terppe of West Windsor is a member of the 2013 Marching Royal Dukes, the university’s 485-member marching band. A senior majoring in health sciences, plays in the band’s clarinet section. The band performs at all home football games, travels to select away games, and represents JMU at local and regional events.
McDaniel College: Jennifer E. Litzinger of West Windsor is among 49 students inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta national honor society in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement of a 3.7 GPA or higher during their first year at the school.
Penn State University: Jean Lydon-Rodgers, a 1981 graduate and valedictorian of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School, was honored with the title of Alumni Fellow, the highest award given by the school’s alumni association. This award is administered by the Alumni Association in cooperation with the University’s Academic Colleges and the Office of the President.
She graduated from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and from Xavier with a master’s in business administration.
Lydon-Rodgers is vice president and general manager of military systems with General Electric Aviation in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is responsible for the business’ military operations serving the U.S. Department of Defense and military customers for aircraft, helicopter, and marine engines.
Her parents are Florence and John C. Lydon of West Windsor.
Rider University: Jennifer Dowling of Plainsboro is a 2013 Andrew J. Rider Scholar. This is the second year Dowling has received the award, which is the highest undergraduate achievement offered to students.
Rutgers University: Diana Mayorga of West Windsor helped design the winning entry of the Pack Expo 2013 Solutions Challenge with three other engineering students. Mayorga, a graduate of High School North in 2011, is a junior. She is currently doing an internship at L’Oreal.
The group competed at the annual packaging trade show held in September in Las Vegas, Nevada. On top of designing the line, the team had to give an oral presentation and write a detailed proposal for the judges.
The team won a shared scholarship from the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies Education and Training Foundation. The competition’s sponsor, B&R Industrial Automation, invited the team present their winning design at the company’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
University of the Sciences: Victoria Lee of Plainsboro was inducted into the Occupational Therapy National Honor Society. She is a doctor of occupational therapy student.
MIT Sloan School of Management: Jeffrey Sun, a second year MBA student originally from West Windsor, was awarded the Siebel Scholarship, which recognizes the most talented graduate students from the world’s top business, computer science, and bioengineering graduate schools.
Sun, 27, joins a group of 85 international Siebel Scholars chosen for 2014 and nearly 870 active scholars who have been honored since the establishment of the program in 2000. Siebel Scholars are selected by the dean of their school from among students who rank in the top 5 percent of their class while demonstrating significant leadership. Recipients receive a tuition grant of $35,000 for their final year of studies and join an international coalition of leaders who work together to develop solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Sun co-founded High School North’s Amnesty International Club when he was a freshman. He was president of his class for several years, worked for Congressman Rush Holt, was a People to People student ambassador, and was active in the March of Dimes Chain Reaction. Sun was also principal violist for the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra and one of the members of the Four Seasons String Quartet. As a junior, he received a $27,500 Discover Card Tribute Award Scholarship.
After earning his bachelor’s degree from Yale, Sun worked as a senior consultant with the Monitor Group, where he focused on strategy projects in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East. He also spent more than a year living in rural East Africa working in the start-up space with One Acre Fund, an organization building a seed and fertilizer loan program.
While at MIT Sloan, he has focused on business solutions to address environmental sustainability and has served as the content director of the MIT Sustainability Summit, an annual event at MIT designed to empower sustainability efforts on all levels — individuals, companies, cities and countries — to create a global impact. He also serves as the vice president of the student experience initiative on the MIT Sloan Student Senate and as the director of Camp Sloan, an outdoors community-building program for 400 Sloan students each year. He is an MIT Legatum Fellow and a MasterCard Foundation Fellow.
“At MIT, our motto is mens et manus, or mind and hand. I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of the Siebel Scholars community and part of a long tradition of students from different backgrounds putting their minds and hands at work to solve today’s most pressing social problems,” says Sun.
#b#Math Tournament#/b#
High School South’s Math Club hosted the inaugural math tournament for grades three to eight on October 20. There were more than 400 registrants.
Founded by Chaitanya Asawa, 16, a high school senior at South, the tournament aimed to increase interest in mathematics and develop problem-solving ability through a series of friendly competitions for young students. The material covered features problems from grade-appropriate math curricula.
Activities included Sudoku, 24, Math Bowl, and more. Prize money was donated by Texas Instruments, Wolfram Research, Aloha Math Mind West Windsor, and Ravi Boppana, a former computer science professor who is now director of the Advantage Testing Foundation Math Prize for Girls.
Registration fees will fund the development of community mathematics and the purchase of math education books for public libraries and schools.
Asawa has taught math and science to kids of various ages for the last four years. He believes a fun competition will instill enthusiasm about math and provide a start for them to take on rigorous national math competitions. “Most school math contests are one-shot events,” says Asawa. “But this competition has many that can be treated casually or competitively, and we expect either way to be fun for the participants.”
