Hewlett-Woodmere School News: National Merit, Scholar Artists, W!SE

The Hewlett-Woodmere School District recently announced that several of its students were commended by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, and that one student made semifinalist.

Chelsea Sidrane has been named a 2012 semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship Competition.

Benjamin Epstein, Helaina Regen-Tuero, Jesse Korman, David Kaufman, Zachary Gershon and Asaf Chandali have all been named National Merit Scholarship Commended Students.

Albert Chavesta, Adam Marc and Helaina Regen-Tuero were selected as National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars (honorable mentions).

Blue Star School

W!SE (Working in Support of Education) has announced that has earned the designation of Blue Star School for students' exceptional performance on the 2010-2011 Financial Literacy Certification Test.

A school must achieve a 75 percent passing rate on the test and have either a majority of students on a given grade level take the test OR have the students who took it achieve an average score of 80 percent or higher to earn this honor.

Blue Star schools will be honored at the MoneyPower Conference for Financial Literacy on Nov. 8.

Scholar Artists

Hewlett seniors Jason Brooks and Perry Goffner have been honored by the Long Island Arts Alliance. Jason Brooks was named a scholar artist for music, and Perry Goffner received an award of merit for photography.

They were selected from thousands of entries from students throughout Long Island; only 20 scholar artists and 20 awards of merit are given each year.