Awards
International Science Fair Winner
Muna Oli received five awards during the Special Awards Ceremony Thursday night at the international science fair. Over 1,600 students from 59 countries, regions, and territories competed for over $4 million in scholarships and prizes. Muna won the most number of awards from the group of Florida participants. Her awards are listed below. The Grand Awards Ceremony will begin Friday morning.
Muna's project title: Aptamer-conjugated Gold Nanorods for Personalized Detection and Nanothermal Treatment of Glioblastoma Cancer Cells
Muna's awards:
1. American Association for Clinical Chemistry For projects that best demonstrate the use of chemistry to diagnose diseases and to treat patients. First Award of $1,500
2. Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty (AVASC) Foundation An educational and medical service foundation dedicated to recognizing academic talent and providing services to the needy. They awarded projects that displayed outstanding creativity, ingenuity and have the potential to alleviate the human condition or mark a substantive advance in the scientific field. Second Award of $500 U.S. savings bond
3. Patent and Trademark Office Society Promotes the US Patent and Trademark system's growth and well-being, promotes and fosters a true appreciation of these systems, recalls our rich heritage of innovation and commerce, and cultivates the highest standards of professional ethics among patent practitioners. First Award of $200
4. Florida Institute of Technology - Florida Institute of Technology is the only private technological University in the southeastern United States. Florida Tech, located on the Space Coast near Kennedy Space Center, offers full undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, science, psychology, business, and aeronautics. Scholarship Award of $12,500 per year, renewable annually
5. Drexel University Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania awarded 8 full tuition scholarships for projects in the categories of Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Health and Physics or projects aligned with Drexel's curriculum. Tuition Scholarship of $150,000
National Hispanic Scholars announced...
Elizabeth Kessler
Russell Cullen
Daniel Perea
Congratulations!
Jinnesse Taylor, Gates Millennium Scholar
April 16, 2010
Ms. Jinnesse Taylor
Dear Jinnesse,
Congratulations! We are very pleased to inform you of your selection as a Gates Millennium Scholar. This year, the Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS) attracted over 20,500 applicants. It is thus a distinct honor for you to be recognized as one of the 1,000 Gates Millennium Scholars for the GMS Class of 2010. We commend you on your strong leadership, community service and academic achievements that distinguish you as a Leader for America’s Future™.
As a Gates Millennium Scholar, GMS funds are available for you to attend any U.S. accredited* college or university of your choice. .. In addition, if you pursue graduate studies in the fields of Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Library Science, Mathematics, Public Health or Science, you may be eligible for GMS fellowship funding for your education through the master’s and doctoral levels.
The GMS program is much more than a scholarship. Our Leadership and Scholar Relations programs offer Academic Empowerment services (ACE) to support your academic success and graduate education planning. In addition, we provide a wide range of resources including a GMS leadership conference specifically designed to orient and prepare you to maximize your GMS experience, a mentoring program and an online resource center that gives you access to internships, fellowships and other scholarships.
SECME Olympiad at UF
Eastside Placed 1st overall in the SECME regional Olympiad on Sat March 27, 2010. Eastside will receive $250 to spend any way the club sees fit. The team (Jay with an A, Alex Allbritton, Diamond Phillips and Joshua Boswell) in the mousetrap car competition will have an opportunity to go to Clemson South Carolina for the National competition in June 23- July 1.
Joshua placed 1st in the math competition, Aashah placed first in the Poster and Essay.
Eastside placed in all events , the mousetrap car, bottle rocket, cerebral challenge and surprise design competitions. Congratulations to all the team members!
Joshua Boswell
Alexander Allbritton
Diamond Phillips
Jason Gurderian
Kiara Washington
Malcom Carter
Aashah Jackson
Chaquaria Hills
Dioni Figueroa
Kendall McCellon
Angel Brown
Tyronne McCellon
Benjamin Osoba
Alachua County Regional Science Fair
Biochemistry: 2nd place Bhiravi Rathinasabapathi
Computer Science: 1st place Hohyun Jeon
Earth Science: 1st place Jennifer Kizza
Environmental Science: 1st place Rupa Bose
Medicine and Health: 1st place shared by David Liu and Muna Oli
Overall Best Project in the Physical Sciences: Jennifer Kizza
In addition all these students were presented with numerous awards from organizations sponsoring the science fair.
All students have been selected to represent Alachua Country in the State Science Fair April 7th , 8th and 9th and Muna Oli has also been chosen to present her project at the International Science Fair in May.
Go Rams!
Record number of Eastside Semifinalists Named in the 2010 National Merit® Scholarship Program
Congratulations to:
Shirley Ai
Hussain Basrawala
Daniel Benner
Baysha Bernales
Russell Cullen
Annie Ding
Kyle Dorsey
Julia Ellis
Paris Flood
Jordan Goldberg
Richard Hatch
Janice Hu
Hyesu Kim
William London
Joshua Miller
Helen Miney
Aidan Murphy
Gautam Nayar
Hunter Nichols
Athena Patterson-Orazem
Elizabeth Petruy
Kaitlin Self
James Thieke
Grace Thompson
Courtney Wade
Alexander Watson
In addition, the National Achievement Scholar Semifinalists were announced. They are Jarvis Johnson, Courtney Wade, and Baysha Bernales. Courtney and Baysha are also National Merit Scholar Semifinalists. This puts the three of them among the top 2 percent of African America seniors.
(Evanston, Illinois) Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 55th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,200 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million, that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.
NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and by approximately 500 business organizations and higher education institutions that share NMSC’s goals of honoring the nation’s scholastic champions and encouraging the pursuit of academic excellence.
More than 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
To become a Finalist, a Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test. The Semifinalist and a high school official must submit a detailed scholarship application, which includes the student’s essay and information about the Semifinalist’s participation and leadership in school and community activities.
Approximately 15,000 Semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level and it is from this group that all National Merit Scholarship winners will be chosen. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.
Merit Scholarship Awards
Three types of National Merit Scholarship awards will be offered in the spring of 2010. Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored scholarships will be provided by approximately 270 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children of the grantor’s employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or offices are located. In addition, about 200 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,700 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.
National Merit Scholarship winners of 2010 will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join more than 267,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
