Hendrick Townley, Cynthia Luo, and Michael Farber, seniors at Rye Country Day School, have been selected as winners of a National Merit $2,500 Scholarship. Winners are chosen from a group of approximately 15,000 distinguished Finalists nationwide.

Hendrick Townley, Cynthia Luo, and Michael Farber, seniors at Rye Country Day School, have been selected as winners of a National Merit $2,500 Scholarship. Winners are chosen from a group of approximately 15,000 distinguished Finalists nationwide.

Senior Katherine Tyler and junior Caroline Kimmel won Gold Medals in the National Latin Exam. This is Katherine’s fifth and Caroline’s fourth consecutive gold medal.

Chase Goddard, a Rye Country Day junior, has been awarded a National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship, and will study Chinese in Suzhou, China this summer. Chase has been taking classes in Mandarin since the sixth grade.

The NSLI-Y program, launched in 2006 and funded by the U.S. Department of State, provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less commonly taught languages in summer and academic-year immersion programs. Annually, approximately 625 students are given the opportunity to study Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Russian, or Turkish overseas.