Junior Ben Wang Wins Prestigious Award for Architectural Work

St. Andrew’s junior Ben Wang was a recipient of the Derek Park Fund Grant Award last year and he used his grant to build a 3D scale model of the new Student Center. That’s not the only award Ben has won due to his passion for architecture. Last week, he earned Honorable Mention in the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for “Cubing Tubes,” an architecture piece that he designed and built of five cubes from “closed to open.”
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition initiative for creative teens across the country in grades 7-12. For 93 years, the Awards presented by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, have identified and encourage young artists and writers to pursue a variety of creative career paths and endeavors. Ben was one of six winners in the architecture category.
 
Ben comes from a family of artists. His grandfather, I-han Chiang is an artist, philosopher and author and his grandmother, great grandfather and siblings are all amateur painters. His mother, Jenny, is also a painter who has had her work displayed.
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St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is a private, coeducational college preparatory day school for students in preschool (Age 2) through grade 12, located in Potomac, Maryland.