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.