ICYMI: Smithtown HS East Student Named National Merit Winner

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in Smithtown Patch:

ST. JAMES, NY - One Smithtown High School East student was among the 2,500 winners of the 2019 National Merit $2,500 Scholarship announced on Wednesday. The winners were selected from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists.

Wednesday's announcement is the second group of winners to be announced this year. In April, more than 1,000 recipients of the corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship were named.

St. James resident Ian T. Winkeler was named as one of the 2019 National Merit scholars. He is aiming for a career in pediatric biochemistry.

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