58 THE QUEENS COURIER • KIDS & EDUCATION • JUNE 28, 2018 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
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Meng selects seven Queens teens to attend military academies
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com /
@smont76
Eight students hailing from Bayside,
Flushing, Fresh Meadows, Glendale and
Jamaica are headed to elite service academies
this summer.
Congresswoman Grace Meng met with
the students hailing from all areas of the
6th District who were recently accepted
into service academies throughout the
country. Each student was nominated by
Meng and met a variety of educational,
physical and extracurricular standards set
by each institution.
The students are as follows:
• Acacia Chai, a Flushing resident at
Francis Lewis High School, will attend
the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point;
• Thomas Knight, a Flushing resident at
Xavier High School, will attend the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point;
• Charles Lo, a Jamaica resident at
Aviation High School, will attend the
U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado
Springs, Colorado;
• Allard Peng, a Flushing resident at
Stuyvesant High School, will attend the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point;
• Szymon Szabat, a Glendale resident at
Aviation High School, will attend the
U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado
Springs, Colorado;
• Kelly White, a Bayside resident at
Bayside High School, will attend the U.S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland;
• Crystal Zhang, a Fresh Meadows resident
at Francis Lewis High School, will
attend the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point; and
• Evan Zhang, a Flushing resident at
Mercersburg Academy in PA, will
attend the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point.
The academies will prepare the college
aged Americans to be officers of the
U.S. uniformed services. Upon graduation,
they will become commissioned as
officers in the active or reserve components
of the U.S. military or merchant
marine for a minimum of five years.
“Each year, I have the honor of nominating
local students for our nation’s
prestigious service academies and I’m
proud to congratulate this year’s group
of young men and women,” Meng said.
“All are extraordinary individuals who
seek to become future military leaders of
our nation. I know they’ll make our borough
and nation proud and I thank each
of them for their commitment to serve
our country. I wish them the very best
for success.”
On June 18, Meng hosted a reception for
each student and his or her family at the
representative’s Flushing office. Each student
was also presented with Certificates
of Congressional Recognition.
Those high school students interested
in attending U.S. Service Academies can
attend an upcoming information night
sponsored by Meng. Details on the day
and location of the event are forthcoming.
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Photo courtesy of Congresswoman Grace Meng
Meng stands with the Queens students accepted to US service academies this year
Congratulations, Graduate!
Emily Singh was among the hundreds
of students who graduated from
Richmond Hill High School at a ceremony
held on June 26 at the Kupferberg
Center for the Arts on the campus of
Queens College. Singh is the daughter
of Nirmal Singh, art director of The
Queens Courier. During Tuesday’s ceremony,
Emily received several awards for
her excellence in mathematics, including
the American Association of University
Women’s Award for Mathematics and
the Richmond Hill High School Award
for Excellence in Trigonometry. She
also received a $40,000 scholarship from
Union College.
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