THE WHEATLEY SCHOOL

OLD WESTBURY NEW YORK

ACADEMIC AWARDS NIGHT

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013 7:00 PM

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ACADEMIC AWARDS NIGHT May 30, 2013

Introduction and Welcome Dr. Sean C. Feeney, Principal

Scholarship for Academic Excellence Blake Abram Allison Perry Jamie Brensilber Nicole Tomei Lambert Chu Graham Turk Maria D’Iorio Tiffany Truong Amaan Karim Nassau County Council of School Superintendents Jamie Brensilber Lambert Chu

Celebrating Excellence Award National Merit Scholarship Recipient Lambert Chu

The following National Merit and Advanced Placement Scholar Awards were recognized earlier this year. Students will not be called up during tonight’s presentation.

National Merit Scholarship Finalists Lambert Chu Allison Perry Maria D’Iorio National Merit Commended Students Matthew Black Gregory Pfadenhauer Daniela Czemerinski Graham Turk Mitchell Han Ariana Zetlin Amaan Karim AP Scholars (2012) Blake Abram Morgan Littman Matthew Bernot Maria Mazzola Justin Casali Hedeya Mizrahi Justin Chau Megan Murphy Elani Cohen Kevin Polinsky Michael Doherty Sukhveen Soni Yuval Hananya Kristina Tarnok Daniel Jorge Yaniv Yerushalmi Jamie Karol Mali Zakin AP Scholars with Honors (2012) Corey Bloomberg Mitchell Han Jamie Brensilber Taylor Kaminsky Erin Connolly Gary Kim Maria D’Iorio Allison Perry Jonathan Fisher Gregory Pfadenhauer Allison Giller Graham Turk Jack Giunta Eugene Yan Samantha Golden Ariana Zetlin Robert Halpern AP Scholar with Distinction (2012) Robert Berman Ahmad Khanzada Matthew Black Ian Lerman Lambert Chu Gabrielle Pollack Daniela Czemerinski Matthew Rothstein Amaan Karim Tiffany Truong

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Foreign Language Awards Mrs. Joan Anderson, Curriculum Associate

The Excellence in Language Awards French Jamie Brensilber Italian Maria D’Iorio Mandarin Justin Casali Spanish Lambert Chu

The French Spirit Award Benjamin Goldbaum The Italian Spirit Award Caitlin Calio The Mandarin Spirit Award Matthew Rothstein The Spanish Spirit Award Chelsea Pincus AATSP Long Island Chapter Scholarship Award Graham Turk Joan L. Feindler Memorial Award Laura Siegel Kumiko Sagiuchi Memorial Award Maria Hincapie Bill Van Dyke Scholarship Award Gabrielle Pollack

Social Studies Awards Dr. Paul van Wie, Curriculum Associate

Grade 8 Zachary Calabrese Rene Venable Steven John Grade 9 Avery Tannenhaus Honors World History 9 Krista Chen Jaclyn Stroud Grade 10 Julia Haghaghi Juliana Luber Advanced Placement World History Courtney Schwartz Grade 11 Lauren Bennis Regents Core United States History Ankita Kelkar AP Core United States History Allison Chowdhury Michael Lituchy Jacob Freund AP Core Humanities Samantha Siegler Advanced Placement United States Government Jamie Brensilber Lambert Chu Human Relations Nicole Degliomini College Regional Studies Sukhveen Soni Advanced Placement Human Geography Taylor Kaminsky Graham Turk Tiffany Truong Long Island Council for the Social Studies Ahmad Khanzada Gabrielle Pollack

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New York Council for the Social Studies Maria D’Iorio Glenn Pribek SWS Award Ryan Helfant Stacia Tsakonas Kaitlyn Liotta Warren J. Loring Award Graham Turk The Robert J. Bernstein Amicus Curiae Award Jacob Freund Robert Vella

Special Awards, Part I Mrs. Mary Harrison, Director of Guidance

Principal’s Leadership Award (School Nominee) Allison Perry Town Clerk’s Community Service Award Samantha Golden Brandeis Book Award Jacob Freund The George Washington University Book Award Mannat Kamboj Barnard Book Award Samantha LaPera Nassau County Executive Community Presented by Mr. Eric Zausner Service & Academic Excellence Award Ariana Zetlin The NYS Comptroller Achievement Award Presented by Mr. Michael Caplice Taylor Kaminsky East Williston Retired Teachers’ Award Allison Chowdhury Good Deeds Award Cloe Southard The Cristin Bambino Scholarship Stacia Tsakonas NY Blood Center: Helping Hands Scholarship Daniel Jorge Andrew Levitt Friedlander Upstanding Award Caitlin Calio Community Church of East Williston Presented by Mrs. Lee Pfadenhauer Benjamin Goldbaum Arlena Olsten Nassau County Comptroller’s Achievement Award Presented by George Maragos Ian Lerman Joseph Bruzzese Scholarship Robert Vella Nassau County American Legion Award Maria D’Iorio New York State Attorney General Michael Doherty Jeong Lee Triple “C” Award Dartmouth Book Award Joseph Jacob Ted Tchack/Stew Doig SWS Award Kaitlyn Love

Ed Keenan Humanitarian Award Presented by Mr. Mark Kamberg, Board President Robert Berman Darrell R. Lund Award Cynthia Barbey

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Janice Wolff Award Presented by Dr. Elaine Kanas, Superintendent Stefphanie Corleone Jackie Borruso Award Arghavan Zolfaghari The Jeffrey Siegel Memorial Scholarship Dr. Sean C. Feeney Emily Cantos Tiffany Truong The Brandon Lustig Memorial Scholarship Kurrel Fabian Melissa Wickes

Science Awards Mr. David Casamento, Dir. of Science & Technology

Science 8 Taylor Ribotsky Earth Science Theodore Lewis Biology Nicole Degliomini Chemistry Sarah Golden Physics Nicole Mellone Forensics Katherine Stagnari Advanced Placement Biology Allison Chowdhury Advanced Placement Chemistry Lauren Perry Advanced Placement Physics B Justin Casali Advanced Placement Physics C Lambert Chu Advanced Placement Psychology Natalie Tabib Advanced Placement Environmental Science Chelsea Wolgel International Science & Engineering Fair National Finalist Aakash Jhaveri Siemens-Westinghouse Regional Semi-Finalist Daniela Czemerinski Association for Research in Vision and Opthamology (ARVO) Award Tiffany Truong

Business Awards Dr. Sean C. Feeney

Dee Izzo Memorial Award for Yuval Hananya Excellence in Business

Arts Awards Mrs. Karen Klapper, Assistant Principal

Excellence in 8th Grade Art Carly Brensilber Samantha Hurtado Noah Cassar

Excellence in Studio in Art Keziah Chung Erin O’Kelly Alexandra Giordano

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Excellence in Photography Ariana Cohn Amandahope Iannone Excellence in Drawing and Painting Katherine Keller Danielle Wasserman Excellence in Ceramics Rizel Gil Excellence in Portfolio Uzayr Arif Maria Hincapie Excellence in Advanced Portfolio Celeste Roldan Excellence in Advanced Portfolio Photography Samantha Siegler Excellence in Advanced Placement Art Ryan Helfant ASA Leadership Award Ryan Helfant

English Awards Mr. Stephen Collier, Curriculum Associate

Pacesetter Awards Maria Hincapie Michael Lituchy The Michael Hurley Memorial Writing Award Daniela Czemerinski Special Recognition Award Blake Abram The Richard J. Nixon Award for Maria D’Iorio Graham Turk Excellence in English The Rose-Mary Bartul Poetry Award Arghavan Zolfaghari Bruce Dennis Creative Writing Award Erin Connolly Tiffany Wu

Music Awards Mrs. Karen Klapper

Blue Note Award Matthew Black

Certificate of Recognition Chorus Daniela Cenci Morgan Littman Stefphanie Corleone Andrew McCluskey Bridget Kelly Melissa Wickes Kaitlyn Love

Chorus Award Jonathan Fisher

Certificate of Recognition Band Jessica Carnabuci Allison Perry Daniela Czemerinski Gabrielle Pollack Samantha Golden Tiffany Truong Daniel Jorge Eugene Yan Morgan Littman

Peter Pane Award Jamie Brensilber

Certificate of Recognition Orchestra Robert Berman Rebecca Molinsky Lambert Chu John Poblador Mitchell Han Kristina Tarnok Christian Hyon Melissa Wickes John Kim

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Michelle Saxon Award Christian Hyon

All-State Symphonic Band Matthew Black Paul Kim Mixed Chorus Jonathan Fisher String Orchestra Christian Hyon Lambert Chu (alternate) All-Eastern Jonathan Fisher Eve and Jerry Jerome Award Matthew Black

Technology Awards Dr. Sean C. Feeney

Jessica Cohen Humanitarian Awards Thomas Stroud MSG Video Scholarship Jonathan Goodman David Rosenzweig

Mathematics Awards Dr. Joyce Bernstein, Curriculum Associate

AMC 12 Top Scorers Test A Joseph Jacob Test B Paul Kim Nassau County Mathletes All-Star Joseph Jacob New York Math League High Scorer Joseph Jacob Graham Turk Matthew Rothstein Andrew Zuckerman Rensselaer University Award Jonathan Zuckerman Chris Xanthudakis Award Kushal Penugonda Long Island Math Fair Gold Medal Winners Jamie Brensilber Arihant Jain Krista Chen Ahmad Khanzada

David Fisher Mohammad Khanzada Eighth Grade Mathematics Olivia DeLay Algebra Ashley Nussbaum Geometry Samantha Leong Algebra 2 and Trigonometry Courtney Schwartz Precalculus Andrew Zuckerman Mathematics Research Jamie Brensilber Advanced Placement Computer Science Graham Turk Advanced Placement Statistics Nicole Tomei Advanced Placement Calculus AB Laura Siegel Advanced Placement Calculus BC Graham Turk

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Theatre Awards Dr. Sean C. Feeney

Outstanding Technical Achievement Gregory Cocchi Kaitlyn Love Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Mali Zaken Outstanding Versatile Performances Fall Musical Caitlin Calio Spring Musical Julia Cooper Outstanding Performance by an Actress Fall Musical Bridget Kelly Outstanding Performance by an Actor Fall Musical Andrew McCluskey Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Spring Musical Melissa Wickes Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Spring Musical Thomas Stroud Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role – Spring Musical Morgan Littman Outstanding performance by an Actor in a Lead Role – Spring Musical Daniel Jorge

Special Awards, Part II Dr. Sean C. Feeney

In Recognition of Excellence Samantha Albert Rebecca Molinsky Jonathan Fisher Allison Perry Allison Giller Kevin Polinsky Robert Halpern Matthew Rothstein Daniel Jorge Kristina Tarnok P.T.O Willets Road Recognition Award Presented by Mrs. Gabrielle Karikas, Willets Road PTO Nicole Tomei The Jim O’Brien Award Presented by Mrs. Karen Klapper Samantha Siegler P.T.O. Teacher of the Year Presented by Mrs. Alyson Siegler, Wheatley PTO P.T.O Recognition Award Gregory Pfadenhauer Ariana Zetlin The Wheatley Medals Dr. Sean C. Feeney Daniela Czemerinski Graham Turk

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We proudly list below the additional awards and recognition our students have earned.

These students have already received their certificates.

Music Department

Long Island String Festival Association (LISFA)

High School Division Lambert Chu Chloe Tso Timothy Han Seung min Yi Christian Hyon Kuan Yu

Junior High Division Jessie Cao Christopher Shen Diana Lee Cindy Zhou Samantha Leong

All-County Band, Div. 3 Sumu Pitchayan Kevin Yi

Band, Div. 4 Emily Black Gabriella Schwartz Andrew Schloss Band, Div. 5 Matthew Black Justin Borczuk

Chorus, Div. 3 Lauren Levine Michelle Lin Allison Levy

Chorus, Div. 4 Joshua Dinetz Jillian Gothelf Chorus, Div. 5 Jonathan Fisher Chelsea Wolgel Orchestra, Div. 3 Diana Lee Orchestra, Div. 4 Rohan Gulati Seungmin Yi Timothy Han Kuan Yu Christopher Shen Cindy Zhou Orchestra, Div. 5 Lambert Chu Chloe Tso Paul Kim

Foreign Language Department American Association of Teachers of French- Poetry Contest

Level 1 1st place Sarah Golden Level 1 3rd place Sabrina Lee Level 1 4th place Brittany Groveman Level 2 1st place Jeffrey Poomkudy Level 3 4th place Bonnie Lerman Level 3 5th place Gabriella Schwartz Advanced Level 2nd place Jamie Brensilber

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American Association of Teachers of French- National French Exam (National Rankings) Level 01A 5th place Sarah Golden Level 2A 3rd place Ashwin Reddy Level 2A 4th place Alexa Parker Level 2A 6th place Jeffrey Poomkudy Level 2A 8th place Christopher Vazquez Level 2A 9th place Nicholas Vazquez Level 2A 10th place Parvathi Pillai Level 2A 10th place Cindy Zhou

American Association of Teachers of Italian- Poetry Contest

Level 2 2nd place Morgan Misk Level 2 3rd place Alana Osroff Level 3 3rd place Julia Haghighi Level 4 Honorable Mention Caitlin Calio

American Association of Teachers of Italian- National Italian Exam

Level 1A 7th place Rene Venable Level 1B 8th place Jennifer Contreras Level 2B 8th place Daniel Singh Level 3A 8th place Isabella D’Iorio Level 3A 6th place Anthony Graffigna Level 3A 10th place Julia Haghighi Level 3A 9th place Amanda Liparoto Level 3A 7th place Alexa Parker Level IVA 5th place Maria D’Iorio

Hofstra University Spanish Poetry Contest

Level II 2nd place Jaclyn Stroud Level III 3rd place Harris Wekselblatt Bilingual/Native 1st place Maria Hincapie

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese- Design-A-Card Contest

High School level 2nd place Ashley Saparzadeh

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese- Essay Contest Advanced/AP Level 2nd place Christine Mathew Advanced/AP Level 3rd place Samantha Augugliaro

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese- National Spanish Exam

Students listed below placed within the top 5% of all students who took the National Spanish Exam

Level 1 Isabella Araujo Rachel Koty Lianna Golden Teddy Lewis

Level 2 Kayla Barroca Julian Nathan* Krista Chen Jaclyn Stroud Mohammed Khanzada Andrew Zuckerman* *placed in the top 1%

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Science Department Long Island Science and Engineering Fair (LISEF) Best in Category (Cell Biology) Aakash Jhaveri Honorable Mention Lauren Perry Allison Chowdhury

JV Long Island Science and Engineering Fair (JV LISEF) 1st place (Biology) Anum Mitha 2nd place (Biology) Daniela Czemerinski Honorable mention Kuan Yu

JSHS Regional finalist Kuan Yu

Molloy College Science Fair Gold award (1st place overall) Kuan Yu Top 10 overall award Courtney Schwartz Top 36 overall (honorable mention) Rohan Gulati Hebah Hassan

Long Island Science Congress State finalists Allison Chowdhury Rebecca Molinsky Rohan Gulati Kuan Yu Merit Brandon Kim Paul Kim Achievement Anum Mitha

Nassau Community College Science Fair 1st place, Grade 10 Arjun Kapoor 2nd place, Grade 12 Daniela Czemerinski

Association for Research in Vision and Opthamology (ARVO) presenter Tiffany Truong

WAC Lighting Invitational/Research Association Science Fair Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1st place Aakash Jhaveri 3rd place Rebecca Molinsky Merit Courtney Schwartz

Honorable mention Lambert Chu Daniela Czemerinski General Biology 1st place Michael Lituchy 3rd place Kuan Yu Computer Science Merit Arjun Kapoor

Prototype Engineering Honorable mention Lauren Perry Nassau County Science and Engineering Fair

1st place, Social Science, 2nd place overall Hebah Hassan 1st place, Computer Science, 3rd place overall Arjun Kapoor 1st place, Medicine Anum Mitha

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Mathematics Department Math Counts Team Arvin Jadonath Diana Lee Nirav Kumar Sara Zulfigar

Junior High Mathletes High Scorers Grade 8 Diana Lee Grade 9 Andrew Zuckerman

American Mathematics Competition 8 Top Scorers Diana Lee Ashley Nussbaum Mariam Naghavi

American Mathematics Competition 10

Top Scorers Test A Kuan Yu Test B Christopher Shen

Art Department

Heart in Art Exhibit LIATA K-12 and Members Exhibit: Award of Excellence Alexa Copperstone Hebah Hassan

Macro - Professional Women Photographers Contest

First Place Ariana Cohn Art Supervisor’s Association – All County Exhibition

Scholarship Recipient Town of North Hempstead Recycled Art Exhibition

Best Overall: Uzary Arif Most Creative Isabella D’Iorio Environmental Message Dana Calabrese Use of Materials Daniel Alberg Ben Matthew

Sara Creamer Michael Wollach Taliah Lipetz Josh Zilkha

Trashion Show Winner (use of materials) Rachel Rosen Nikon Photographers 33rd Annual College Photography Contest

Best of College Photography 2013 Ryan Helfant Samantha Siegler Congressional Art Competition

Third Place Ryan Helfant Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 2012 Photography Contest

Grand Prize People Samantha Siegler Runner up Best in Show Emily Guinta Honorable Mention Still Life Zachary Wolff Honorable Mention Student Ariana Cohn

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APE Exhibition – Art League of Long Island (AP Exhibit) Award of Excellence Ryan Helfant

NYSATA Legislative Exhibition

Gallery Display Kurtis Bassman Priya Prasad Amandahope Iannone Zachary Wolff

NYSATA Online Exhibition Kurtis Bassman Priya Prasad Vans Custom Culture Contest Kurtis Bassman Priya Prasad Amandahope Iannone Zachary Wolff Astoria Federal Teen Photo Contest (first place) Ariana Mohan The Art Guild of Port Washington Juried High School Exhibition Honorable Mention Kurtis Bassman Maria Hincapie Drexel University High School Photograph Exhibition Honorable Mention Ryan Helfant Zachary Wolff Huntington Arts Council Nightmare on Main Street Honorable Mention Lauren Miceli

THE EAST WILLISTON SCHOOL DISTRICT

Board of Education Mr. Mark Kamberg, President

Mr. Robert V. Fallarino, Esq., Vice President Mr. Leonard Hirsch Mr. David P. Keefe Ms. Barbara Slone

District Administration Dr. Elaine Kanas, Superintendent of Schools

Ms. Jacqueline Fitzpatrick, Assistant Superintendent for Business

The Wheatley School Dr. Sean C. Feeney, Principal

Mrs. Karen Klapper, Assistant Principal

District Curriculum Personnel Dr. Joyce Bernstein, CA of Mathematics

Mr. Stephen Collier, CA of English Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, Director of PE, Athletics, and Medical Services

Mrs. Mary Harrison, Director of Guidance Mrs. Clare Hayes, Director of Pupil Personnel Services

Mr. David Casamento, Director of Science and Technology Mrs. Joan Anderson, CA of Foreign Language

Dr. Paul van Wie, CA of Social Studies