Wayne National Merit, AP Scholars Recognized For Achievements

WAYNE, NJ — Dozens of township students were honored for their academic achievements recently by the Board of Education at a recent meeting.

The national merit scholar students are among 16,000 nationwide semifinalists in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

Finalists will compete for one of 3,500 National Merit Scholarships. Winners will be announced between April and July.

Wayne Hills High School

National merit scholars: Elijah Paul, Erica Radler, and Pulast Thaker

National merit commended students: Rana Balah, Shivi Shauhan, Michael Ferreira, Riddhi Jadhav, Maggie Komann, Jordan Leong, and Gina Park

AP scholars with distinction: Luke Bowyer, Shivi Chauhan, Michael Ferreira, Seth Friedman, Riddhi Jadhav, John Lemchak, Jordan Leong, Kishore Nagarajan, Jacob Park, Elijah Paul, Vivek Shah, Pulast Thaker, and Jordan Wang.

AP scholars with honor: Megan Badilla, Jeydanur Birson, Jason Kobrin, Hunter Ledeman, Maksym Perozhak, Erica Radler, and Riya Solanky

AP scholars: Rana Balah, Daniel Boguslavsky, Collin Brooks, Uma Dhekne, Maggie Kormann, Karen Liu, Christian McCall, Danill Novikov, Gina Park, Sebastian Rojek, Ghassan Slim, and Jiyoung Song

Wayne Valley High School

National merit commended students: Daniel Bernstein, Samuel Halpern, Emma Hamza, Elizabeth Kiel, Rosa Kleinman, Eric Lyons, Ashley McDermott, and Emily Wang

AP scholars: George Beyjoun, Zachery Byle, Juliana Crciello, Kristen Cinquino, Jack Cordero, Patrick Cronin, John Diagostini, Juliana Dijkstra, Robert Farulla, Jack Felt, Alfred Ferguson, Emma Hamza, Noel James, Daneil Jun, William Kelly, Ned Klame, Eric Lyons, Roark Mcfadden, Joshwin Saulon, Matthew Seltz, and Timothy Thompson

AP scholars with honor: Brian Borchard, Benjamin Cummings, Emily Gorelik, Rosa Kleinman, Ashley Mcdermott, Rohlt Mistry, John Parr, and Michael Pettorini.

AP scholars with distinction: Andy Barnhardt, Daniel Bernstein, Samuel Halpern, Jack Herskovits, Elizabeth Kiel, Eduardo Nombera, Alyssa Okun, Margaret Olaya, Hayley Sussman, and Emily Wang

National Hispanic recognition program scholars: Margaret Olaya and Eduardo Nombera

Board of Education President Donal Pavlak Jr. offered his congratulations to students and their parents.

"I would like to express our congratulations on a job well done," Pavlak said. "You turn around and often people ask about what we are getting for our tax dollars. You are the picture of what we are getting for our tax dollars."

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