‘Exceptional’ Staten Island student honored with Michael J. Petrides award
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Amy Mohamed, a senior at Michael J. Petrides High School, was recently honored with the Michael J. Petrides Student Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science. (Courtesy/Staten Island Borough President s office/Lifetouch National School Studies Inc.) Staten Island Borough President s officeStaten Island Borough President
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The award is named for Michael J. Petrides, a Staten Island educator who died in 1994.
Borough President James Oddo and members of the Petrides family and scholarship committee presented the award to Amy Mohamed.
The annual honor is given to a graduating high school senior who excels in math and science. Lacey DeLucia from Staten Island Technical High School was named first runner-up. Thea Akhrass from St. Joseph Hill Academy High School was named second runner-up.
After preparing for their mission for over a year, more than 100 Vermont Army National Guard soldiers loaded a plane in South Burlington Wednesday morning. Their ultimate destination: Africa. Among them: a pair of young men bearing the same last name one being a local police officer.
Essex Police Departmentâs (EPD) Justin Lindor, a specialist in the Army, is one of about 950 soldiers who will be deployed across the U.S. European, U.S. African, and U.S. Central commands during the first half of 2021.
He and the others who took off from Vermont on Wednesday who are primarily from the 572nd Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry (Mountain), both part of 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) will first go to Texas for 3-4 weeks of final training before getting sent to multiple locations across the U.S. Africa Command.