At the March 20 Board of Education meeting, Hicksville Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ted Fulton highlighted several Hicksville students.
To start, the Superintendent recognized Alexandra LaPlaca for recently receiving the 2024 Nassau BOCES George Farber Student Award. This award recognizes outstanding students and is given in memory of former Nassau BOCES Board President George Farber, whose passion for improving the lives of students was surpassed only by his love and care for them.
Alexandra will soon graduate in the top 11% of this year’s graduating class with a 98 GPA. She has been challenging herself with five AP classes, and 10 honors classes throughout her time at Hicksville. She has also studied American Sign Language, offered at Hicksville, which is one of her passions in life. Even with her difficult course load, Alexandra was determined to study at the Long Island High School for the Arts where she continues studying another true passion, dance.
As an accomplished dancer, she has countless accomplishments and awards that she has received. Alexandra has a career goal of teaching and plans to combine her two passions, by teaching dance to deaf students and children.
Next, eight Hicksville High School students Raven Canzoneri, Brian Jaco, David Lee, Labdhi Masaliya, Miguel Ortiz, Anisa Ruiz, Kimberly Widjaja and Jennie Zhang were recognized for being selected to exhibit their artwork at Heckscher Museum as part of Long Island's Best Young Artists Competition 2024.
In its 28th year, Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum is the only juried exhibition on Long Island that offers high school students the opportunity to show their work in a museum. Each year, students in grades 9 through 12 are invited to create a work of art inspired by artwork shown in the Museum during the school year and submit to this prestigious juried exhibition. Hundreds of works of art are submitted from schools across Nassau and Suffolk counties and approximately 80 are chosen for display in the exhibition.
The district extends best wishes to all the students for continued future success.
Alexandra LaPlaca recently received the 2024 Nassau BOCES George Farber Student Award. She is pictured with Hicksville Board of Education Secretary Linda Imbriale on the left, Hicksville Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ted Fulton in the center and family members Anne Marie LaPlaca-DonLon, Frankie LaPlaca, Carmen LaPlace and Frank LaPlaca.
LI Best students pictured with (l-r) Hicksville Board of Education President Annette
Beiner, Jennie Zhang, Brian Jaco, David Lee, Raven Canzoneri, Kimberly Widjaja,
Miguel Ortiz, Hicksville Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ted Fulton and Anisa Ruiz.
Missing from photo: Labdhi Masaliya