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VIDEO: Highland Valedictorians Ready for College
This is the second of a two-part article featuring brief videos of Highland's Class of 2012 valedictorians.
Highland High School's Class of 2012 will receive its diplomas Thursday night.
At the top of this year's class of Tartans are six talented students who tied for the highest grade-point average at the Blackwood school, at 4.67. They are Emily Atzert, Chrisi Bush, Jacqui Green, Shaiful Kashem, Sheik Hassan and Seth Nicosia.
Gloucester Township Patch caught up with the valedictorians Monday afternoon to find out what they will miss most about Highland and what they plan to do with their lives over the next five to 10 years.
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Today (June 14), Patch published the brief video responses of Kashem, Hassan and Nicosia.
Kashem will attend Rutgers University, where he plans to pursue a pre-law education; Hassan is heading to Drexel University, where he will major in software engineering; and Nicosia is also heading to Drexel, where he will take classes in pursuit of a career in electrical engineering.
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The responses of Atzert, Bush and Green were published June 13.
Five of the six students reside in the township's Laurel Springs section. Atzert is a Blackwood resident.
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