Andover Students Make Their Marks
A list of recent scholarly and artistic achievements
February 09, 2012
—Throughout the year, Phillips Academy students participate in a wide variety of outside competitions that allow them to test their scholarly and artistic skills against students from around the region and even around the world. The following is a list of students who have enjoyed some significant competitive successes, or have earned a distinctive honor, over the course of the last several months.
Sean Bozhurt Ballinger ’12 of Andover, Mass.
Semifinalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search for his work titled “Enhancing a Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cell Stack with Gold-Dodecanethiolate Core-Shell Nanoparticles"
David Ding ’12 of Albany, Calif.
Finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search for his work titled “Infinitesimal Cherednik Algebras of gln(Winner will be announced March 13)
Daniel Feeny ’15 of Woodside, Calif.
First place in Broadcom MASTERS 2011 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, a national science fair competition, for his study of wave force diversity in tidal pools
James Garth ’13 of Andover, Mass.
Awarded a position in the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra for bassoon
Lauren Howard ’12 of South Glastonbury, Conn.
Coauthored paper titled “The Effect of Soil Nitrogen Levels on Thigmotropic Responses in the Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula,” which will be published in the Journal of Experimental Secondary Science. Cowritten with Biology 580 classmates
James Philps ’12, Jamie Shenk ’12 and Min Jae Yoo ’12
Haonan Li ’13 of Beijing, China
First place in the advanced division of the Loomis Chaffee Debate Tournament, qualifying him for the World Individual Debate and Public Speaking Championships in Australia in April
David Lim ’12 of Incheon, Korea
Third place in the Fischoff chamber music competition as a member of the Tropical Trio (with Maddie Tucker ’11)
Miki Nagahara ’13 of Andover, Mass.
First place in the Brockton Symphony Orchestra concerto competition; will be performing the Prokofiev First Violin Concerto with that orchestra
James Philps ’12 of Boxford, Mass.
Coauthored paper titled “The Effect of Soil Nitrogen Levels on Thigmotropic Responses in the Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula,” which will be published in the Journal of Experimental Secondary Science. Cowritten with Biology 580 classmates Lauren Howard ’12, Jamie Shenk ’12 and Min Jae Yoo ’12
Sasha Scolnik-Brower ’13 of Andover, Mass.
Received 2011 Cornelius A. & Muriel P. Wood Award in Boston Symphony Orchestra’s annual concerto competition; will perform with the BSO this spring
Jamie Shenk ’12 of San Francisco, Calif.
“The Effect of Soil Nitrogen Levels on Thigmotropic Responses in the Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula,” which will be published in the Journal of Experimental Secondary Science. Cowritten with Biology 580 classmates Lauren Howard ’12, James Philps ’12 and Min Jae Yoo ’12
Nathaniel Smith ’13 of Madison, Wis.
State finalist in the National History Day competition’s senior documentary division for his film on folksinger Pete Seeger
Min Jae Yoo ’12 of Seoul, Korea
Coauthored paper titled “The Effect of Soil Nitrogen Levels on Thigmotropic Responses in the Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula,” which will be published in the Journal of Experimental Secondary Science. Cowritten with Biology 580 classmates Lauren Howard ’12, James Philps ’12 and Jamie Shenk ’12