Meet Deer Park's High School's Valedictorian And Salutatorian

DEER PARK, NY — This year's valedictorian and salutatorian at Deer Park High School are Jordan Trojan and Calvin Nguyen, respectively.

Trojan is a National Merit Commended Scholar and AP Scholar with Distinction, serves as vice
president of the Math Honor Society and is treasurer of the Italian Honor Society and National English Honor Society. He's also a member of the National Honor Society, Science Honor Society and Tri-M Music Honor Society. He was named a Long Island Scholar of Mathematics and earned a perfect score on the AP Computer Science Principles exam.

An accomplished scholar and athlete, he has competed on Deer Park’s varsity cross-country, spring track and winter tracks as well as the junior varsity soccer team.

In the fall, Trogan will attend Stony Brook University, where he'll major in mechanical engineering and computer science.

Nguyen is also an AP Scholar with Distinction and serves as president of the Science Honor Society and vice president of the National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society. He's also a member of the Math Honor Society and National English Honor Society.

In addition, Nguyen is a 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholar, a New York State Seal of Biliteracy recipient for Spanish and was a National Spanish Examination silver medalist in 2021 and 2022.

He's also served as co-captain of the school’s Science Olympiad team; a member of the Academic Team, Math Team, DECA club and DECA Honor Society; coding leader of the STEM Club; DECA State Career Conference qualifier in 2023 and 2024 and DECA Suffolk County Competition human resource management second-place winner; Deer Park’s representative at the 2024 Long Island BOCES Student Regional Forum; a 2021 Breakfast for Champions world language winner; and a member of the 2023 homecoming court.

After two years on the junior varsity boys soccer team, Nguyen earned a spot on the boys varsity soccer team in his junior and senior years, earning Academic All-County honors for the 2023-2024 season.

In the fall, he'll attend Rochester Institute of Technology where he plans to complete a combined bachelor's and accelerated master’s program while majoring in software engineering and artificial intelligence.