Eighth Competition (2012-2013)
Winners High School Division Best Essay Award
1st Place: Madison LoFaso (Huntington High School)
2nd Place: Ravi Jain (Syosset High School)
3rd Place: Emily Linko (Hauppauge High School)
College Division Best Essay Award
Melissa Kavanah (Stony Brook University)
Uchida Memorial Award
Ali Syed (Stony Brook University)
Consul General of Japan Special Award
Madison LoFaso (Huntington High School)
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Merit Award
Charles Beers (Huntington High School)
Lewin Kim (Horace Mann School)
Natsuko Sato (Arlington High School)
Kate Snider (Herricks High School)
Finalists Thomas Abdelmalak (Valley Stream Central HS)
Santiago Alzate (Huntington HS)
Jenny Chan (Benjamin N. Cardozo HS)
Kaitlin Dayton (Huntington HS)
Arman Nasim (W.T. Clarke HS)
Tanu Rani (Benjamin N. Cardozo HS)
John Reilly (Huntington HS)
Rivka Schuster (Manhattan High School for Girls)
Yumiko Siev (Valley Stream Central HS)
Semi-Finalists Hakeem Donovan Jamal Abdella (Frederick Douglass Academy)
Jesse Chang (Stony Brook University)
Kyle Gallagher (Stony Brook University)
Brittany Lopez (Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies)
Sydney Kahn (Lynbrook Senior HS)
Christopher Kuhner (Saint John the Baptist Diocesan HS)
Hanna Murphy (Huntington HS)
Caitlin Rieger (Garden City HSl)
Daniella Schoen (Huntington HS)
Adam Lee Struhl (Syosset HS)
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