Among the honorees honored by the Davidson Institute of Talent Development as a 2017 Davidson Fellow is 18-year-old Allison Huang of Princeton, who has been awarded a $10,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for her writing project, “Personal Culture: Voicing the Experiences of Postcolonial Youth Navigating Identity in a Globalized World.” One of only 20 students across the country to receive this honor, she commented, “I am thankful that Davidson has plugged me into a web of fabulous young minds—  activists, musicians, and entrepreneurs of the future.” 

In May 2017, Ms. Huang received first prize in the Rider University High School Writing Contest. Her work has been recognized by Imagine Magazine’s Creative Minds Contest, the 2016 Save The Earth Poetry Contest, the Lewis L. Milberg Secondary School Poetry Contest, and the National YoungArts Foundation, among others. She will attend Princeton University in the fall.

The 2017 Davidson Fellows will be honored at a reception in Washington, D.C., on September 27.

“We are thrilled to recognize the 2017 Davidson Fellows not only for their incredible projects, but also for the journey they forged to reach this point,” said Bob Davidson, founder of the Davidson Institute. “Every year I am amazed by the depth of the Fellows’ accomplishments. Through encouragement and recognition, the Davidson Institute for Talent Development anticipates that gifted students like these will be among the pioneers who will solve the world’s most vexing problems.”

The Davidson Fellows Scholarship program offers $50,000, $25,000, and $10,000 college scholarships to students 18 or younger, who have completed significant projects that have the potential to benefit society in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, literature, and music. The Davidson Fellows Scholarship has provided more than $7.1 million in scholarship funds to more than 300 students since its inception in 2001, and has been named one of the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships by U.S. News & World Report. It is a program of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Reno, Nevada that supports profoundly gifted youth.

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