2 Students from Lincoln-Sudbury High Earn Excellence Awards

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School congratulates seniors Alexander Gough and Andrew Lee, both of whom received ​Certificates of Academic Excellence from the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.

The awards, presented by Superintendent Bella Wong, are a highly competitive and prestigious accolade given to students who have shown distinction in the pursuit of academic excellence during their high school careers. The criteria for this award is an outstanding cumulative average over their three years in high school and a personal selection by the superintendent.

Alexander Gough is an outstanding student whose passion for physics prompted him to enroll in classes at the Harvard Extension School where he had the second highest score in his class of nearly 200 students, most of whom were post-baccalaureate pre-medical students. Gough was hired as a summer researcher at Harvard and was given an independent project to build a dark-field holographic microscope. Teaching comes naturally to Gough. He was asked by his LS Chemistry teacher to teach quantum physics to the class. Gough independently crafted slides to teach the subject and gave compelling lessons that included history and humor. He is a poised, articulate and confident young man who would love to be on the frontier of a new discovery.

​Andrew Lee is a remarkable student who is bursting with intellectual curiosity. He has worked as an intern at the Broad Insti​tute’s Cancer Program at MIT and Harvard where he explored potential ways to detect interactions between cell line features using a machine learning algorithm, in addition to designing an interactive application to visualize cancer cell line data for Project Achilles. Lee has been involved in LS’s FIRST Robotics Team and has been an integral part of the team’s national success. He has been a chief contributor in the conception and execution of the team’s robot and a leader behind the presentation to the judges. Lee has also enjoyed being a teaching assistant at LS, an assignment awarded by the department to students that have demonstrated mastery and leadership in a particular subject.

Information courtesy Lincoln-Sudbury High School