Maryland
Records 16 through 30 out of 60

	Year: 2000 Andrew J. Cook Towson, MD, Carver Center for Arts and Technology   Andy Cook graduated from Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, where he studied painting and photography. Last year he was awarded Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts, and participated in both the Marie Walsh-Sharpe and MICAPre-College summer programs. Andy is also an Eagle Scout and avid environmentalist. In the fall he will be attending The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
	Year: 2000 Anne E. Lee Rockville, MD, Montgomery Blair High School   Anne Eunhae Lee was born in Washington, D.C. but has lived mostly in Maryland. She graduated from the Math/Science/ Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School. Anne plays the violin and has been a member of the Potomac Valley Symphonic Orchestra. Anne is an avid tennis player and has been a member of the Blair Varsity Team. She has also been involved in other extracurriculars: Model U.N., Korean Students Society, National Honor Society, Envirothon, and Chemistry Team. Anne will attend M.I.T. She believes her future lies in neuroscience or business but realizes the possibilities for the future are endless.
	Year: 2000 Jason S. Oh Cockeysville, MD, Gilman School   My interests and my intended majors are physics and mathematics. The past two years, I have been invited by the U.S. Physics Team to compete in the International Physics Olympiad (last year I won a silver medal and this year I go in July). I have also received the Sieman's National APAward, made USA Today's All-Academic Team, and won the Lucent Global Science Scholarship. Next year I will be attending Cal Tech.
	Year: 2000 Johannes M. VanDerBeek Baltimore, MD, Baltimore School for the Arts   With no traveling partner, I wandered all around the United States, self financing my fun outside through heartland prairies.
	Year: 2001 Laura R. Cole Bethesda, MD, Holton Arms School   I have always loved puzzles. As a child, I favored jigsaws and tangrams over dolls and teddy bears. As I have progressed through school, I have gravitated towards subjects that allow me to solve puzzles: science, with its inductive reasoning; mathematics, with its intricate proofs; and music, with its gorgeous interlocking patterns. I love Latin poetry because the complex system of declensions and conjugations leave word order entirely unrestricted, an aspect of the language that not only adds new dimensions to literature but also makes reading a puzzle. Even my favorite recreational activities typically include some kind of a puzzle. I love mystery novels, crosswords, and bridge.
	Year: 2001 Samuel M. Ganzfried Bethesda, MD, Landon School   My intellectual interests range from mathematics to philosophy, psychology, economics, and Latin. As much as I love to learn, I also love to teach and give back to my community by sharing my learning with others. I believe it is important to have balance a and strengths in non-academic as well as academic area; and, for more than nine years, I have actively pursued sports and music. I have learned many valuable life lessons in teamwork, cooperation, and self-discipline from playing and training in two varsity sports throughout high school - tennis (varsity captain) and cross-county. I have similarly experienced a communal spirit playing the oboe throughout high school in our state and national award-winning symphonic band. With my wide-ranging love of learning, love of teaching, and longstanding commitment to athletics and the arts, I have gained great satisfaction from my school and community experiences.
	Year: 2001 Caroline A. James Bethesda, MD, Walt Whitman High School   I love to be outside painting landscapes. Being in the landscape challenges and relaxes me. The changing light, moving objects and problems with composition challenge me. Yet, recording aesthetic moments on canvas requires close observation of the subject. I feel most relaxed when I can study the colors, patterns and light as I construct paintings. Also, I rowed on my high school's crew team for three years. Rowing taught me endurance and mental preparation. The success of a crew depends on cooperation and a trust between the people in the boat. The whole process- the struggle, journey, friendship and strong work ethic - explains my interests in art and crew. Rowing and art takeplace in the process, not the finish. I live in a family of artists - one writer, two artists, and a musician. My family has taught me to find who I am and my unique expression.
	Year: 2002 Matthew A. Elkins Owings, MD, Northern High School College Plans: University of Maryland, College Park   Matthew has lived in rural Calvert County, Maryland, for all of his life and has fallen in love with the pastoral lifestyle. Nevertheless,he is looking forward to enjoying his college days in an urban environment, and is eager to taste something of city life.Matthew has been involved in many theatrical productions, enjoys soccer competitively and recreationally, and has recentlybegun studying the fighting styles of Chinese Kenpo, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, and American Shootfighting. Matthew is an avid chessplayer and computer programmer, and is active in his church as a Lector and Lead Altar Server. He thanks his parents and fivesisters for all they have been to him throughout his life, and his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His sacrifice. Matthew is proudto be named a Presidential Scholar for 2002.
	Year: 2002 Amy L. Franciscovich Frederick, MD, Governor Thomas Johnson High School College Plans: Emory University   Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail-Ralph Waldo Emerson. And I have endeavored to do so. I enjoy a myriad of extracurricular activities - from soccer to Chemathon to drama. I strive to achieve in all aspects of life with energy and enthusiasm; this is best accomplished with a smile! An anonymous source once said, "Dance like no one is watching, love like it will never hurt, and live like heaven is here on earth." A four-year varsity soccer starter, I was named the 2001 National Soccer Coaches Association of America's Scholar Athlete of the Year and was selected to partake in the inaugural Powerade/McDonald's All-American Soccer Game. I also intern with the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Experimental Immunology.
	Year: 2003 Janine A. D'Agati Towson, MD, Towson High School   Barnard College Photography is my primary interest. I focus on color photographs, and for the past few years my photographs have mostly depicted ordinary objects and aspects of urban landscapes/urban decay. I am also continually building on a series of diptychs that features portraits juxtaposed with unrelated objects, the intent being to provoke a viewer to derive a unique, invented idea of the connection between the two images. Aside from all that, I enjoy diners, old books, and small, family operated businesses.
	Year: 2003 Lisa Leung North Potomac, MD, Montgomery Blair High School College Plans: Harvard College   Hailing from the Old Line State near Washington DC, Lisa can often be found solving math problems, playing piano, working on homework or volunteering. At school, when not at class, Lisa is always in the Career Center, updating the school website; in the Library, helping students and teachers use the computer systems; or in the Math Help Room, helping students learn calculus. She is often also furiously scratching away as she solves problems at math competitions, tapping away on the keyboard during the USA Computing Olympiad, or looking intently at a leaf during the Envirothon competition. During the weekends, Lisa is the head coordinator of the Chinese American Parents and Students Association Tutoring Program, where she helps tutors teach new immigrants English, helps participants with their homework, and constantly improves the program. She plans to major in Applied Mathematics and ultimately would like to be an engineer or lawyer.
	Year: 2003 Raleigh L. Martin Chevy Chase, MD, Landon School College Plans: Princeton University   When it comes to science and math, I’m an idealist, and my passion for China is boundless. I’ve traveled to this beguiling country five times, including three summers of Chinese immersion through Columbia University, spending summer in an internship at a physics lab at Beijing University. In 2001, this passion spurred me to create my school’s China Roundtable, now a permanent organization offering in-depth seminars that explore issues facing the nation. Math excites my reasoning mind; particularly my Classical Analysis studies at Georgetown. I have a burning interest in jazz piano and rejoice in jam sessions with my band. Saturdays I tutor young immigrants in math at Washington’s Chinese Community Church, and hold spirited chess matches with the students I mentor. I intend to to synthesize my interests as an international scholar with formidable math and science training and a Sinologist, delivering scientific papers in Chinese. My goal is to become a bridge across the Pacific.
	Year: 2004 Max E. Chavez Kensington, MD, Albert Einstein High School College Plans: Undecided   First of all I want to state that I have a hearing disability. When I was little I developed an ear infection that damaged my ear canals. I remember having to be in DHOH, a deaf and hard of hearing program, throughout elementary school and middle school. I feel as though that put me at a disadvantage in life from the start. Having to deal with wearing special hearing aids was embarrassing for me. I got stared at a lot a school. I felt different most of my life. That is why I always kept to myself. This has really influenced my paintings because I try to make an object that is unnoticed and simple into one that has great impact. I am expressing who I am inside through my paintings. I am also proud to be Hispanic-- proud to be one of the few Hispanics who are recognized in the visual arts. I want to be an example for those Hispanics who aspire to be artists like me.
	Year: 2004 Margaret M. Fitchet Bethesda, MD, Holton Arms School College Plans: Dartmouth College   Ever since the beginning of my elementary school days I have had two main passions: a strong intellectual curiosity and a love of athletics. My enjoyment of learning has been reflected in my academic achievements throughout my school career. Besides maintaining a 4.0 GPA, I was elected to the Cum Laude National Honor Society, received the Bausch & Lomb National Science Award, and was named a National Merit Scholar. My favorite hobbies could be considered intellectual as well; I love reading, writing, and making pottery. My favorite sport is tennis, which I started at age 8. By 12, I was competing on the National Junior circuit, which I have continued up to the present day. I have held a USTA Mid-Atlantic Sectional Ranking as high as #1 and a National Ranking of #48. Excelling at a high level in both of these endeavors has been very satisfying to me and I am looking forward to continuing them at Dartmouth.
	Year: 2004 Jennifer Patricia. Jordan Bethesda, MD, Sidwell Friends High School College Plans: Yale University   Jennifer Jordan proves that old adage: if you want something done, ask someone busy to do it! While maintaining straight A’s in one of the nation’s most rigorous high school programs, she was elected not only as the yearbook’s Editor-in-Chief, but also as Chairman of Community Service. In this latter capacity Jennifer increased membership by more than 100%, and instituted several new programs, from bi-weekly tutoring at an inner city school to an ongoing service partnership with a local children’s hospital. Jennifer’s can-do energy also appears in her athletic achievements, such as rowing for the crew team and serving as co-captain in varsity tennis. Outside of school she has answered her community’s needs as an Emergency Medical Technician with an all-volunteer rescue team. Her Scottish family motto-- “Mean, Speak, and Do Well”-- inspires her busy life. She intends to apply that principle to a likely career in journalism.

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