Illinois State Scholars Named at SHS, BGHS, WHS

The Illinois State Scholar Program recognizes students for outstanding academic achievement. State scholar designation provides honorary recognition with no monetary award. Approximately the top 10 percent of graduates from approved high schools are announced as State Scholars each year.

Honorees for 2012 include:

Guillermo Acevedo, Justin Adduci, Jennifer Affrunti, Brett Albert, Eva Allibone, Katherine Andres, Benjamin Andrews, Maxwell Anstett, Aaron Appelbaum, Delaney Atkinson, Aleksandra Avrutina, Taylor Ayers, Jacob Azriel, Denis Babiy, Alex Bacalar, Lauren Baker, Katharine Batman, Alex Bauer, Joseph Bauer, Sydney Bauer, Dominic Belmonte, Donald Bender, Jason Benjoya, Andrew Berg, Claire Berman, Tyler Berryman, Jordan Black, Kelly Blahnik, Jake Bohnsak, Derek Bolman, Hanna Boorom, Abigail Bornstein, Jessica Brand, Mary Brandt, Ilana Braverman, Michael Bruk, Kelly Budish, Daniel Budolak, Eugene Bulkin, Jorie Butler-Geyer, Alexis Cappalli, Ryan Carrell, Alison Castriano, Derek Chang, Mark Chatkin, Courtney Chen, Liyuan Chen, William Chen, Melinda Choi, Minee Choi, Molly Cizek, Caroline Cliburn, Hanna Cohen, Sherlee Cohen, Adam Cole, Carter Cranberg, Ran Crook, Kerry Cummings, Emily Cunningham, Drake Darrah, Shree Dash, Bradley Dembo, Garrett Dempsey, Amanda Derdiger, Maral Deyrmenjian, Chirag Dhruna, Alex Diamond, Volodymyr Didorchuk, Elizabeth Docel, Amy Dondalski, Sonia Doshi, Madison Douglas, Emily Dresden, Joshua Dubin, Shawna Dudovitz, Lakshmi Duggirala, Elizabeth Durkin, Jacek Dziedzic, Zachary Erny, Gabriella Faber, Dylan Farber, Elliot Feeny, Vincent Fiorentini, Langston Fitts, Jason Fleischman, Michael Fleming, Evan Frank, Kai Funahashi, Paige Galassini, Frank Gambino, Karen Gao, Jordan Gates, Benjamin Gaydaq, Evan Gilbert, Lawrence Gitman, Hayley Glatter, Alex Goldberg, Elizabeth Goldberg, Matthew Goldberg, Samuel Goldsmith, Max Golembo, Jessica Gould, Ryan Grady, Robert Graff, Sydnie Greene, Nicole Grossman, Yeasuh Ha, Morgan Hall, Mark Hamilton, Austin Handler, Matthew Handler, Sarah Handler, Matthew Hantsbarger, Markus Hasenberg, Michael Hauptmann, Jared Heller, Marissa Herpfer, Brenden Horwitz, Michelle Hou, Grant Houser, Margaret Howe, Michael Hu, Kevin Huang, Alexis Hummel, Juwon Hyun, Scott Irving, Rachel Jadin, Adnan Jahan, Jacqueline James, Kirsten James, Jay Jani, Susheela Jayaraman, Benjamin Jeong, David Jin, Guanjun Jin, Evan Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Alison Jonesi, Hannah Kalvin, Joshua Kamin, David Kang, Jack Karras, Anna Kaszuba, Zachary Katsulis, Ellen Kaushansky, Hannah Kay, Brendan Kelleher, Karl Kempf, Jonathan Kersky, Ameera Khan, Shriya Khullar, Yatharth Khanna, Brian Kim, Joshua Kim, Kyle Kim, Matthew Kim, Myounghyun Kim, So Min Kim, Steven Kislenko, Kimberly Klawans, Daniel Klebanov, Michelle Klem, Sujin Ko, Jessica Koh, John Kohn, Danielle Komsky, Dennis Kontorovich, Samantha Kopinsky, Kaitlyn Krejsa, Jordan Krussell, Alexandra Kupershmidta, Mackenzie Kurth, Saachi Kuwayama, Connor Lacher, Jocelyn Lai, Rachel Landsman, Daniel Laner, Michelle Layvant, Alexander Lee, Austin Lee, Janet Lee, Jeanne Lee, Anna Leng, Julie Leong, Rebecca Lesser, Joshua Levin, Scott Levine, Alexandra Lewis, Astor Li, Gina Li, Kathy Li, Michael Li Peng, Diana Liang, Tarah Lim, Yuyan Lin, Michael Ling, Mitchell Liss, Cheryl Liu, Rui Liu, Wan Wan Liu, Marissa Lobl, Emily Loretto, Alexander Loutris, Ginger Lu, Joey Lubelfeld, Emily Luo, Xiaozhe Maeda, Michika Ma, Vivek Magati, S. Robert Mantzoros, Elle Marcus, Carly Margolin, Eva Margolis, Michaela Margolis,  Drew Martin, Viren Mascarenhas, Benjamin Massat, Nevin Mathew, Takuro Matsuda, Aleksandra Mazur, Jacob McConachie, Declan McGarry, Steven McKee, Lindsey Mendelson, Bradley Meyer, Elzbieta Michalowska, Matthew Micucci, Trudy Miller, Ethan Miner, Vladislav Miskevich, Gerald Moe, Cassandra Mora, Molly Moser, Caroline Moy, Rebecca Muller, Robert Muttilainen, Arnold Nadel, Christopher Naegele, Devon Naftzger, Nirali Nahar, Benjamin Nahrstadt, Haruka Nakamura, Kendal Nelson, William Nesbitt, Mitchell Newman, Vivianne Nguyen, Olivia Niepsuj, Joseph Nordstrom, Alec Novoselsky, Garrett Olson, Sara Omohundro, Orlando Ortigoza, Kensington Osmond, Riley Osuyos, Adam Ottenheimer, Aparna Pal, Gerv Pandey, John Park, Sally Park, Seokmin Park, Soo-Young Park, Sungwoo Park, Andrea Pasminski, Anjali Pasupathy, Marlee Peck, Katherine Pepping, Laura Perlman, Sai Reetika Perumalla, Samuel Polhemus, Jeffrey Prace, Vickram Pradhan, Daniel Pyatetsky, Joshua Rabinowitz, Neha Rao, Naomi Rawitz, Robert Redman, Woojin Rho, Alyssa Riederman, Scott Robin, Emily Rodheim, Jessica Romanz, Jane Rose, Benjamin Rosenberg, Carly Rosenberg, Rachel Roundtree, Jack Rubin, Andelyn Russell, Jordan Sachs, Samantha Saddler, Rebecca Sagerman, Chloe Salk, Joseph Salvesen, Abhiram Sanka, Aleksandr Sapozhnikov, Ritvik Sarkar, David Schargorodsky, Rebecca Schodin, Matthew Schoen, Michelle Schroeder, Alexander Schwartz, Ju Won Seo, Kelly Sergay, Samantha Servi, Roshni Shah, Mindy Shaw, Sam Shaw, Zachary Sheck, Brendan Sheehan, Susie Shin, Daniel Shtivelberg, Benjamin Sigal, Jordan Silverman, Tatiana Skylar, Daniel Slivka, Chloe Smith, Jeffrey Smith, Wojciech Sokolowski, Jeremy Solomon, Mara Somlo, Amanda Spencer, Zachary Spieler, Daniel Spivak, Alexander Spring, Taylor Stern, Jed Stone, Luke Stroth, Grady Suerth, William Sullivan, Keigo Tanaka, Joshua Tarnoff, Zachary Taub, Ariella Tavor, Robert Thomashow, Glenne Tietzer, David Trakhtenberg, Mark Tverskoy, Ethan Urborg, Alvin Varghese, Rachita Vasan, Sachin Vasikaran, Austin Vitaliano, Michelle Wachs, Jessica Walke, Jonathan Way, Danielle Webb, Melissa Weinberg, Alec Weingart, Brandon Weiss, Maxwell Weiss, Matthew Wengerhoff, Jacob Wernick, George West, Emily Wings, Kamila Wisniewska, William Xie, Kristine Yang, Claire Yao, Richard Yeker, Jacob Yomtoob, Ji Hee Yoon,So Yeon Yoon, Lauren Young, Jaren Zacher,Julia Zanotelli, Bingcong Zhao, Sherry Zhong, Yile Zhu, Kelly Zimmermann, Lauren Zin, Erika Zukowski, Joseph Zwirn,

Kristen Akialis, Morgan Angotti, Zachary Anzelmo, Rebecca Appelt, Nicholas Balko, Garin Bedian, Nicholas Boustead, Mark Brusilovsky, Samantha Bulmash, Rocco Buttliere, Simon Campos, Megan Carson Sulzer, Eleanore Chan, David Chappatta, Christina Chen, Edwin Chung, Elizabeth Coe, Christopher Collins, Eric Cooper, Kelly Corbett, Steven Cyhaniuk, Anthony De Salvo, Michael Dean, Anthony Desalvo, Michael Diamond, Stephanie Domingo, Grace Domzalski, Matthew Doran, Brendan Doyle, Lauren Draftz, Victoria Dumstorf, Lauren Durfey, Ashley Eischen, Tyler Elston, Stephen Evensen, Alec Faehnrich, Sara Fasching, Alex Fritz, Nicole Gardner, Mary Guth, Alex Guy, Kilon Han, Kristine Harris, Kelsey Henrikson, Kayla Huber, Ryan Inlow, Timothy Isaacson, Victoria Ito, Ian Johnson, Muhammad Khan, Liam King, Michael Kosk, Joshua Krause, Jennifer Krewer, Alexa Kropidoski, Maria Krutikova, Matthew Kugler, Jessica Lazzara, Seung Eun Lee, Mia Lei, Daniel Lipka, Mary Lollino, Kausalendra Mahadas, Sarah Martinez, Jonathon Mass, Stephen Mazzoni, Matthew McGill, Kristin Molloy, Zehra Naqvi, Tyler Nelson, Megan O'Donovan, Jon Park, Genevieve Patrick, Emily Pietroski, Kimberly Precht, Christopher Racz, Jacob Reese, Daniel Roe, Brittany Schmitt, Rachyl Shanker, Brandon Sokol, Ravi Soni, Nicholas Sorgani, Matthew Stein, David Sye, Julia Taicsich, Erin Thrasher, Megan Tobias, Ryan Toher, Eric Toriumi, Valerie Valak, Hana Vanderveen, Annmaria Vincent, Krysta Walter, Paul Weiner, Matthew Wilber, Caitlin Wurzbacher, Bernard Xie, Irina Yatsyk, Danielle Yoesep, Richard Zirngibl.

Katie Aguayo, Alison Alexander, Tyler Amodeo, Joseph Bauer, Michael Boom, Tyler Brady, Maddisen Brakel, Daniel Brount, Lisa Buresh, Nicholas Caputo, Lester Caramba, Tori Caringella, Amanda Choi, Maverick Cruz, Cyrene Dacanay, Allison Densler, Jennifer Garbarz, Devyn Gnoske, Kevin Gross, Dan Jacob, Andrew Jensen, Abid Khan, Daniel Kim, Peter Kim, Sara Kowynia, Lee Kresner, Kevin Leska, Dmitriy Leukhin, Alexander Linzmeier, Christina Lorey, Ileana Machado, Heather Macisaac, Leah Malsom, Ivan Martino, Julia McCarren, Felicia McGuinn, Nicholas Modlin, Emily O'Neill, Jose Ortiz, Amanda Peterson, Michail Razzakov, Nastassia Saidak, Trevor Schneyr, Daniel Shriber, Joanna Stankowicz, Rachel Stephani, Samantha Sungvoom, Michael Taylor, Leah Valenti, Megan Vasey, Max Wagner, Rebecca Way, Matthew Wojtkiewicz, Adam Zaucha.