{"id":1854,"date":"2023-04-17T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/award-programs\/secretary-of-education-scholars\/2023-delaware-secretary-of-education-scholars\/lun-kong\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:53:12","slug":"lun-kong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/award-programs\/secretary-of-education-scholars\/2023-delaware-secretary-of-education-scholars\/lun-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lun Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"student_container\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Personal information about Lun Kong\" class=\"grid\">\n\t<div class=\"grid-item grid-item-med grid-item-fixed picture\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/award-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/kong_lun_h.jpg\" width=\"270\" alt=\"Headshot of Lun Kong\">\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"grid-item grid-item-med grid-item-fixed nomination\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"scholar_nomination_statement\">Nomination Statement<\/h2>\n\t\tLun Kong is an industrious student and currently ranked first in his class with a 4.5 cumulative GPA. He medaled in Math League and Science Olympiad, placing 22nd overall in Nationals in meteorology. He was nominated for the Governor&apos;s School of Excellence and received the AP Scholars Award with Distinction. In addition, he was awarded Underclassmen Male Athlete Sportsmanship of the Year and Widener University Leadership Award. Kong is very involved in school, holding positions as president of the Student Council and vice president of the National Honor Society. He plans to major in either meteorology or mathematics or both.\n\t<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"grid-item grid-item-med logo\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/award-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/william_penn_high_school.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of William Penn High School\">\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"grid-item grid-item-med personal\">\n\t\t\t&ldquo;Having lived in Hong Kong for seven years, the education system instilled hard work into me at a very young age. After moving to America though, my greatest influence to my current success came from my teachers.  Their pushes and encouragements allowed me to reach new potentials and also gave me the intrinsic motivation to do so.&rdquo;\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"grid-item grid-item-med picture\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/award-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/kong_lun_2.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"grid-item grid-item-med picture\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/award-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/kong_lun_1.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"grid-item grid-item-med picture\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/education.delaware.gov\/award-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/kong_lun_3.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having lived in Hong Kong for seven years, the education system instilled hard work into me at a very young age<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1853,"parent":1639,"menu_order":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1854","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"school":"William Penn High School","school_logo":1662,"student_images":[1850,1851,1852],"nomination_statement":"Lun Kong is an industrious student and currently ranked first in his class with a 4.5 cumulative GPA. 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