Kostan awards certificates of excellence

LYNN – Superintendent Nicholas Kostan presented his annual certificates of academic excellence from the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents to two seniors from each of the city’s three public high schools last Thursday night.The awards are given to the top two students in the senior class at each school.From Lynn Vocational and Technical Institute, Kostan presented awards to Nisa Im, who is first in her class, and Eric J. Woodbury, who is second. The best grade point average at Classical High School belongs to Basant Badr and the award for second in the class went to Kevin Mazige.At Lynn English, Kostan presented awards to the school’s top senior Ashley Turner, and Jingni Wei, who is second in the class.The students were accompanied by family and friends, along with LVTI Director James Ridley and Lynn Classical Principal Warren White to Thursday night’s School Committee meeting, where Kostan and committee secretary Thomas Iarrobino read a list of each student’s accomplishments and presented certificates of excellence.”I just want to congratulate these students on their outstanding performance over the last four years, I am sure they are going to go on to great things,” he said. “They are all wonderful kids who all have a great future.”