HS East Senior Benjamin Sorkin Receives Citizenship Award

High School East Senior Benjamin Sorkin was recently honored by Suffolk County Legislator Lou D’Amaro, D-North Babylon, with the Citizenship Award at the school’s 2013 Senior Awards Night. 

The award is annually presented by D’Amaro to a student who “gives of him or herself for the betterment of the school and/or the community.”

Sorkin is a “Top Twenty” student at High School East, a National Merit finalist, captain of the Science Olympiads and a Peer Ambassador.  He participated in both the Northrop Grumman NextGen Engineers Program and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Summer Research Program. Sorkin will be attending Princeton University in the fall.

“It is a privilege to recognize and honor Benjamin Sorkin for his outstanding accomplishments and many contributions to the school and community,” D’Amaro said. “I know he will continue to strive for excellence and wish him much future success in all of his endeavors.”