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Recent Freeport High School Graduate Named
A Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship Semifinalist
Kimberly Lipman-White, a recent graduate from Freeport High School, was named
a semifinalist for the Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship by The National Society
of High School Scholars. The society is an honors organization founded by Claes
Nobel, the senior member of the family that established the Nobel Prizes.
Third in her class, Lipman-White was selected
as a semifinalist from among 11,000 applicants based on her academic excellence,
leadership and service activities. Considered by her classmates as focused
and dedicated with a fun-loving spirit, Lipman-White was involved in numerous
school activities including National
Honor Society, Freeport Public Schools
Budget Committee, Odyssey of the
Mind, Yearbook, Key Club Distributive
Education Clubs of America (DECA) and the Class of ’07 Committee. She also played
tennis and ran track. Among her favorite activities, however, are community
service and travel. She recently traveled to Ireland, England and Wales with
People to People, a student-ambassador program. This fall, Lipman-White will
study biochemical engineering at Columbia University and is setting her sights
on pursuing a doctoral degree."I am continually working to achieve more and
accomplish more," Lipman-White said. "I am a genuinely hard-working person
and I am honored to have been chosen as a semifinalist for this award."
Freeport High School graduate Kimberly Lipman-White
was named a semifinalist
for the Claes Nobel Academic Scholarship.
Freeport Public Schools is a diverse, innovative district on Long Island’s
South Shore serving about 6,750 students in grades Pre-K through 12. The district
and its eight schools take pride in having the region’s only magnet schools
of choice, a longstanding and award-winning classroom English/Spanish Dual
Language Program, and a high school where students excel in competitions that
include the regional Academic Challenge, Odyssey of the Mind and Future Problem
Solving International. The district’s New Visions School of Exploration
and Discovery has been named a No Child left Behind Blue Ribbon School by the
U.S. Department of Education for its high student performance and engaging
curriculum.
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