The fifth class of high school students exploring careers in science, technology, engineering, and math includes students from 12 Montgomery County high schools.
The Sandra Lee Heyman Foundation announced this week that the new sophomore and juniors in the fellowship program include high schools in Montgomery County and Baltimore and one home-schooled student.
Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville again claimed the largest number of fellows. Sandra Heyman led the mathematics faculty at the school until she passed away in 1998.
The program launched in 2020. Students will meet with STEM professionals from around the country during the next three semesters. In previous years, the fellows have visited laboratories at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and U.S. Capitol buildings. They have spoken with a Nobel Physics Prize laureate, White House officials, an astronaut and many others.
The fifth class of fellows from Montgomery County and their schools are:
Albert Einstein High School, Kensington
Jamila Nguyen
Covenant Life School, Gaithersburg
Kai Chen
Gaithersburg High School
Niral Jagadeesh
Homeschool, North Bethesda
Keira Dempsey
James H. Blake High School, Colesville
Nikhil Paranjape
John F. Kennedy High School, Wheaton
Olapeju Badmus
Northwest High School, Germantown
Megan Tang, Anjali Vanka
Our Lady of Good Counsel, Olney
Brandon Lacey
Poolesville High School
Ramya Chokkalingam, Pankhuri Malayanil, Alicia Yang
Richard Montgomery High School
Ruslan Akmyradov, Oren Egnal, Sophie Huang, Elli Jacobs, Audrey Johnson, Ayush Kalotra, Chloe Kennedy, Sophia Li, Renata Podlesny, Aditya Purohit, Vihaan Rathi, Keerthna Rawat, Jahnavi Sabnis, Kailash Sabnis, Jinwoo Shin, Katherine Sundstrom, Logan Tannenbaum, Srihith Viswanathan, Katherine Xue, Catherine Yang, Chelsea Zhu
Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda
Evelyn Ye
Winston Churchill High School,
Alexander Chiochankitmun, Myla Leung
Heyman taught mathematics at the community college, high school and middle school level in Montgomery County, Fairfax County and New Providence, N.J.
She passed away in 1998 due to an autoimmune blood disease. The foundation was formed by Sandra’s family to honor her memory and extend her legacy. In addition to the fellowships, the foundation sponsors scholarships for Richard Montgomery High School students excelling in mathematics.
