NAAAP Boston is proud to announce the winners of the 2015 NAAAP Boston Future Leaders Scholarship Award. We received over 70 applications and can truly say that this was a very difficult decision to narrow down all the talented candidates to the final 3 winners. Applicants were not only evaluated based on academic achievement, but also accomplishments in extracurricular activities, community service and their leadership skills as well as financial need.
In addition to meeting and exceeding this criteria, the scholarship committee also looked for candidates who displayed passion and commitment in expanding their leadership skills, community involvement and upholding the mission and vision and values of NAAAP Boston.
The scholarship recipients are as follows:
Eugine Szeto, Malden High School
Emily Luu, Mystic Valley Regional Charter School
Zeyu Zheng, John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science
Each award recipient will receive a $5,000 scholarship for use towards college expenses.
Congratulations to our winners and thanks to every student who applied this year.
Below are the bios of each winner:
Zeyu Zheng
2015 Richard TN Lee Scholarship Recipient
Zeyu is an immigrant from China and came to the US, six years ago. He currently resides in Boston with his mother. He plans to study business when entering college. He is a member of the National Honor Society, Science Trivia Challenge, Model United Nations Club, and Asian Culture club. He was a homework mentor at the Boston Public Library. Zeyu has previously interned at Boston Properties and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He won third place in the Boston Teachers Union Math competition and his science team was recognized as Team Youth Silver Champions at the Harvard-MIT Science Trivia.
Emily Luu
2015 Liberty Mutual Award Scholarship Recipient
Emily is the first in her family to attain a bachelor’s degree. She currently resides in Malden and is half Vietnamese/half Chinese. Her goal is to study nursing and become a nurse practitioner. She loves playing soccer and is the starter for her soccer team. She serves as treasurer of the National Honor Society and as secretary of the Math Club. She previously volunteered with EMARC teaching special needs children to swim. She was also life guard and camp counselor at the YMCA Malden.
Eugine Szeto
2015 MassMutual Scholarship Recipient
Eugine is a Chinese Immigrant and currently resides in Malden. He volunteers with the Asian American Civic Association where he tutors elementary school students and teaches them the process of writing and performing original plays. He is captain of the Tennis team and served as President of the Junior Achievement Company Program. His Robotics team won 4th place in the New England Botguy Tournament. Eugine is also President of the Forensics Club where his team won 6th place in group Discussion at the Hilly Speech and Debate Tournament. Eugine is a National AP Scholar. His academic interests consists of Economics, Engineering and Computer Science.
