Student+panel

Student Panel:

Susan Salkeld attended Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, TN. Currently a senior at Mississippi State University, she is majoring in Software Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. An interest in computational biology led to a summer research grant to find pathogens in Listeria during which she created a Biopython program to analyze BLAST results of Listeria strains. Susan plans to begin graduate school next year to study Human-Computer Interaction. She is the daughter of Cindy Salkeld, Director of Academic Technology at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, TN.

Tish Scolnik  attended John Jay High School in Cross River, New York. She is currently a junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she is majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a special focus on international development. She is minoring in Applied International Studies. Tish has  combined her passion for community service with her engineering education in a wheelchair design project for third-world countries.   Catherine Higham attended high school at Harpeth Hall. She is now a sophomore at Princeton University. Though she has yet to officially declare a major, she will likely pursue one in either Molecular Biology or Economics. She is very interested in medicine and medical research and plan to go to medical school after college.

Ginny Perkey graduated from Harpeth Hall in the class of 2007. She currently attends American University in Washington, DC and plans to graduate in 2011 with a double major in Physics and Literature and a minor in Math.