AB STEAM awards Leadership/Scholarship Awards and Service Awards to students who have enthusiastically volunteered over the years, demonstrated leadership abilities and shown passion for STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) or STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) education.
Leadership/Scholarship Awards go to AB seniors who have taken charge at AB STEAM events and offered substantial contributions to STEAM in the community. AB STEAM Service Awards go to AB seniors who have volunteered for more than six events during high school.
Congratulations to our six graduating AB seniors and AB STEAM scholarship recipients! Co-chairs Dawn Peterson and Karen Pierce with this year's grads are pictured below.
The scholarship winners and their intended universities include:
Mohana Bhuvanagiri, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Naty Fantahun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Kimaya Gazula, Boston University
Owen Pierce, University of Vermont
Ajay Raina, Northeastern University
Shruthika Muthukumar Veena, University of Pittsburgh
Congratulations to our seven graduating AB seniors and AB PIP STEM scholarship recipients!
Alison Yee, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Mariana Maranga, Wellesley College
Anya Mittal, University of Pennsylvania
Sidarth Krishna (not pictured, is a member of the science team, attending Nationals!)
Sunaina Tipirneni, University of Illinois
Emma Liu, Brandeis University
Grace Hart, University of New Hampshire
Co-chair: Dawn Peterson (on left)
Co-chair: Karen Pierce (on right)
Sahil Walia, University of Wisconsin
Yash Prabhu, Purdue University
Lucas Czarnecki, Syracuse University
Nicole Bell, Emory University
Vidyut Suresh, Purdue University
Olivia Tun, Northeastern University
Congratulations and thanks to the following volunteers who won $250 scholarships:
Pratik Gazula
Neha Vigay
Siddhanth Bhatt
Charlotte Wang
Ribka Sheikh
Mukundh Murthy
Watch the AB Scholarship Night (filmed by Acton TV). AB PIP STEM winners include: Isabella Hart (University of New Hampshire), Sanjana Krishna (Carnegie Mellon), Kirtana Krishnakumar (University College London), and Mehul Suri (University of Pennsylvania). Congratulations!
Congratulations and thanks to the following scholarship winners for volunteering: Beryl Mohanandhas, Bernice Mohanadhas, and Varsha Jawahar.
Four seniors won scholarships including: Arushi Bhalchandra, Jasper Hendrix, Shruti Nanda, and Katherine Yee.
Congratulations to the 2017 scholarship winners: Amrita Krishnakumar and Madhuri Raman.
From left to right in photo: Dewi Win (AB PIP STEM Co-chair), Sarah Gao (Washington University), Sumanya Kumar (U Conn), Maya Haigis (University of Rochester), Izzy Taylor, (University of Vermont) and Rheta Roeber (AB PIP STEM Treasurer).
Best wishes to our 2015 Scholarship winners. John Petersen presented the awards at ABRHS to William Wu (left, MIT) and Thomas Malchodi (right, Georgia Institute of Technology).
Congratulations to our 2014 scholarship award winners, Stephanie Randolph (left, Boston University) and Namrita Murali (right, Carnegie Mellon). John Petersen presented the awards.
Good luck to this year's scholarship winners including Erin McLaughlin (Penn State), Clark Jacobsohn (WPI), Prakhar Sahay (Brandeis) and Ethan Sherman (American University). In the photo, John Petersen presented the awards to Erin, Clark and Ethan at ABRHS.
Congratulations to AB PIP STEM scholarship winners Alison Reip (left, Tulane) and Megan Rabideau (right, Tufts).John Petersen presented.
PIP Co-chairs, John Petersen (left) and Karen Herther (right) awarded scholarships to Prateek Sahay for AB Robotics, Naman Bharadwaj for AB Robotics, Jenn Kappel for Leadership/Service, and Melissa Wang for Leadership/Service.
The following seniors received PIP Service Awards: Nick DeMello, Rosa Huang, Sunny Li, Lex Martin, Henry Neale, Gabi Walters, Jesse Ward, Julia Whyte, and Michael Wu.
Isabel Krakoff (Hamilton College) and Danni Sherman (U. Rochester) won the 2010 Leadership/Scholarship awards.
Douglas Randolph Bentley University) and Erin Sweet (Lesley University) won the 2009 scholarships.
Josh Crofton-McDonald of Acton (Cornell) and Jessica Hatch of Boxborough won the 2008 awards.