Five Towns students earn dean’s list, Quill Awards and a degree

Nick Gargano, of Atlantic Beach, and Tom Slavin, from Woodmere were named to the dean’s list at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2019 fall semester. Gargano is in the illustration program and Slavin is in the game design and development program.

Undergraduate students are eligible for the dean’s list by having a grade-point average of at least 3.4, and there are no grades of incomplete, D or F. Students are also required to complete 12 credit hours per semester.

Hewlett High School came home with three Quill awards and the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere captured one at Adelphi University’s annual Press Day on Feb. 26. Overall, 26 Long Island high schools and roughly 280 students attended the all-day event that took place in the university’s on campus performing arts center and center for recreation

The Spectrum, Hewlett’s High student newspaper topped the competition in the Best Editorial Award category for its “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble” piece. Senior Rachel Miller, who also serves as the Herald’s Hewlett Happenings columnist, placed second for Most Outstanding Reporter. The Spectrum placed second for Most Outstanding Newspaper. Eitan Gutenmacher, a DRS student, took third in the Best Layout Award category.

Inwood resident Max Perez was one of more than 500 students who graduated from the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury in the fall. Perez earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering.