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Four Half Hollow Hills Students Honored In The 2025 Scholar-Artist Program
Four Half Hollow Hills Students Honored In The 2025 Scholar-Artist Program
Chip Parker

Since 2007, the Long Island Arts Alliance’s Scholar-Artist Awards program has recognized students judged to be “the best of the best” on Long Island in both academics and in the arts. This year, Half Hollow Hills is proud to announce that three students were selected as Scholar-Artists and one additional student was selected to receive an Award of Merit.

Half Hollow Hills High School East's Victoria Lin was selected as a Scholar-Artist in Media Arts and Kerry Yeung was selected as a Scholar-Artist in Visual Arts, while Half Hollow Hills High School West’s Maia Schaider was selected as a Scholar-Artist in Visual Arts and Ainsley Waite received an Award of Merit in Dance.

Since 2007, the Long Island Arts Alliance’s Scholar-Artist Awards program has recognized students judged to be “the best of the best” on Long Island in both academics and in the arts. This year, Half Hollow Hills is proud to announce that three students were selected as Scholar-Artists and one additional student was selected to receive an Award of Merit.

 

Half Hollow Hills High School East's Victoria Lin was selected as a Scholar-Artist in Media Arts and Kerry Yeung was selected as a Scholar-Artist in Visual Arts, while Half Hollow Hills High School West’s Maia Schaider was selected as a Scholar-Artist in Visual Arts and Ainsley Waite received an Award of Merit in Dance.

 

They join 17 other students selected as Scholar-Artists and 19 students selected as Award of Merit recipients for their skills and talents in the areas of music, visual arts, dance, theater or media arts. Lin, Yeung and Schaider represent the 25th, 26th and 27th students from Half Hollow Hills to be selected as Scholar-Artists since the program began in 2007.

 

To receive this designation, students must be graduating seniors nominated by their school for representing the highest level of artistic excellence, submit a portfolio of their work for consideration by the selection committee, and demonstrate superior academic achievement with an unweighted grade point average of 90 or above.

 

"Congratulations to our talented students honored as Scholar-Artists and Award of Merit recipients! Their dedication to both the arts and academics has been truly remarkable," said Jon Trapani, Director of Fine Arts at Half Hollow Hills. "We couldn't be prouder of their ongoing commitment to their artistic passions and achievements."

 

The Scholar-Artist awards, given by the Long Island Arts Alliance in conjunction with Newsday and the New York Community Bank Foundation, are presented to 20 Long Island high school seniors who are featured in Newsday over the course of the 10-month school year. The Awards of Merit are given to an additional 20 students who receive a certificate at the Long Island Arts Alliance Gala and are listed on the Newsday website.