Wu wins scholarship from Board of Regents

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - 19:00

Enterprise file photo — Michael Koff

Athena Wu speaks this spring at an anti-hate rally she helped organize at Guilderland High School.

GUILDERLAND — Athena Wu, a Guilderland senior, has been awarded the Chancellor McGovern Scholarship, given to the child of State Education Department employees.

Wu has a 4.0 grade-point average and will attend Northeastern University to study neuroscience.

She is the daughter of Bryan Wu, a state psychometrician in the Office of State Assessment, and Wen-Chi Lin, an associate in education research in the Office of Accountability.

At Guilderland High School, Athena Wu is a member of the National Honor Society and president of the Science Olympiad and the Chemistry Club. She also helped organize an anti-hate rally at her school. She had a job tutoring elementary and middle school students in English and math, and won Albany Med’s Brain Bee, a neuroscience competition.

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