semi-finalist

While she didn't win -- or even place as a semi-finalist -- she was crowned Miss Congeniality.

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One young person who still believes in the power of education to be the great equalizer is Samantha Garvey, the 18-year-old Brentwood, L.I., high school senior who in January was named a semi-finalist in the Intel Science Competition while her family was living in a homeless shelter.

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"What is difficult when I'm on the court in that pressure situation and the stress levels are at their highest is that you're likely to say something you don't mean or get angry and upset," the 24-year-old two-times semi-finalist said Sunday.

Murray Calm Before the Storm

While she didn't win -- or even place as a semi-finalist -- she was crowned Miss Congeniality.

Hilary Levey Friedman: Whitey Bulger's Beauty Pageant Connection

While she didn't win -- or even place as a semi-finalist -- she was crowned Miss Congeniality.

Hilary Levey Friedman: Whitey Bulger's Beauty Pageant Connection

"What is difficult when I'm on the court in that pressure situation and the stress levels are at their highest is that you're likely to say something you don't mean or get angry and upset," the 24-year-old two-times semi-finalist said Sunday.

Murray Calm Before the Storm

Behind each of these outstanding students is inevitably an extraordinary teacher, and in some cases that teacher is inspiring more than one semi-finalist -- as well as other students who may not be honored in this way, and still more who may have been honored in past years or will be in the future.

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Previous entries had made it to the quarter-finalist (now Honorable Mention), semi-finalist, and finalist levels, so I knew I was doing something right.

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Behind each of these outstanding students is inevitably an extraordinary teacher, and in some cases that teacher is inspiring more than one semi-finalist -- as well as other students who may not be honored in this way, and still more who may have been honored in past years or will be in the future.

James M. Gentile: Learning Already From the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search

While she didn't win -- or even place as a semi-finalist -- she was crowned Miss Congeniality.

Hilary Levey Friedman: Whitey Bulger's Beauty Pageant Connection