Main Line Student of the Week

  Lindsay McBride, a senior at the Academy of Notre Dame, is a National Merit Semifinalist, and was one of just three United States students to be named the winner of the 2022 Maurice R. Hilleman Essay Contest. She also created a crossword puzzle that the New York Times purchased. Last May, she won first place at an independent research competition of the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of the Sciences at Penn State. Lindsay is a Diocesan Scholar (taking two college courses), is on the Leadership Board of the Environmental Club, is Co-President of the Mandarin Club, is a Grade Representative of the Global Leadership Student Board and plays varsity field hockey at Notre Dame. She is a STEM Scholar, a Germination Project Fellow, a Research Student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Teen Research & Education in Environmental Sciences Program, was a Research Assistant at MIT, Plata Lab (where she led a team of three MIT undergraduates), a voter registration...

    A senior at Episcopal Academy, Albert Chen has served as Student Council Vice President, plays on EA’s varsity squash team, is a volunteer with Squash Smarts – an organization that promotes the squash to young players, and writes for the school newspaper, The Scholium. Outside of EA, Chen is an accomplished and a twice-published researcher. He has been a research intern with Penn’s Perleman School of Medicine, in the Department of Radiology, where he worked in the Laboratory for Structural, Physiologic, and Functioning Imaging (LSPFI). He has also conducted research and data analysis on environmental antimicrobial resistance. He was the only high school student on the research team that meets weekly on Friday evenings – Chen’s team is trying to design 3D imaging (such as for a patient’s medical history) that can be instantly projected onto a patient’s body for an operating team. To view the entire article on Albert Chen click here