NEWPORT NEWS, VA — Langley Federal Credit Union presented four deserving young members with the Galaxy Graduate $5,000 College Scholarship award for academic achievement. The four winners are Alex Chen, Sydney Giblin, Benno Lee, and Angela Zhang.

Alex Chen attends York High School. For the past 3 years, he has appeared on the WAVY-TV Academic Quiz Show "Battle of the Brains." He is an accomplished classical pianist and has been accepted to Stanford University where he hopes to major in mathematics and physics.

Sydney Giblin attends Jamestown High School and is ranked number 1 in her class of 356. She is an All District and All State Swimmer and is the President and Founder of 4-H Pet Pals, a therapy dog program. She will attend MIT where she would like to study aerospace or mechanical engineering.

Benno Lee attends York High School and New Horizons Governor's School. Last summer, he participated in the Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholar Program. He plans to study electrical engineering and computer science and plans to pursue Master and Ph.D. degrees relating to robotics and computing research.

Angela Zhang attends York High School and works as a Counselor at New Horizons Science and Computer Summer Camp. Since hearing of the destructive tsunami that devastated the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, Angela knew that studying tsunamis would be her life's work. She envisions herself working in the UN Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission studying tsunamis in order to minimize their disastrous effects.