NHP Students Win Irish Writing Competition

New Hyde Park Memorial High School students Aisha Abdelhamid, Nathan Edwards, Christina Jacob, Ramsha Shoaib, Melvin Thomas and Grant Wong were named winners in the Martin J. Kelly Writing Contest of the Irish Cultural Society.

The students were part of a group of 610 talented poets who created 1,350 Gaelic Quatrains in the competition. Principal Dr. Richard Faccio congratulated the students for this outstanding achievement.

Story by Syntax, Photo courtesy of the Sewanhaka Central High School District: Students (l-r): Christina Jacob, Melvin Thomas, Nathan Edwards, Grant Wong, Aisha Abdelhamid and Ramsha Shoaib. Also pictured are Principal Dr. Richard Faccio, teachers Anna Caruso, Bryan DiScala and Katie Kasper (back row, second right) and English department chairperson Gina Rodriguez (right).