Damodaran ’17 & Merrigan ’16 Earn Scholastic National Medals

Two of Newark Academy’s 16 Scholastic Writing Award Regional Gold Key winners have gone on to earn awards on the national level. Kiran Damodaran ’17 and Elizabeth Merrigan ’16 earned Silver Medals for Poetry. Of over 320,000 Scholastic entries in 2016, National Medal winners represent less than 1% of submissions. Kiran won for his poem “Collision Theory” and Elizabeth for her poems “Archipelago,” “Man of the Valley,” “Turbulence,” “Watermelons” and “In the Wallpaper.” Congratulations, Liz and Kiran!