PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 8, 2021
A Deering High School senior who took top honors at the 2021 Maine State Science Fair for her research on an inexpensive way to remove arsenic in drinking water systems won a top national scholarship Thursday. Linh Nguyen was the First Place Grand Award winner at the science fair, which took place virtually last Saturday. On Thursday, she learned she was named a Cooke College Scholar, one of only 61 students honored nationwide by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the only one from Maine.