A 17-year-old homeless teenager from Long Island is a semifinalist of the prestigious national Intel science competition.
Samantha Garvey is one of 61 Long Island students who have a chance at the competition’s top prize of $100,000.
Garvey is a senior at Brentwood High School. Her Intel project focused on predators’ effects on ribbed mussels.
She told Newsday her family’s setbacks motivated her to work hard.
Garvey lives in a Bay Shore shelter with her parents, a brother and twin sisters.
Her guidance counselor Karin Feil said Garvey takes advantage of anything offered to her.
She also studies Italian and plays the violin.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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