The Stanford Club Book Prize competition is well underway. Chair Don Huse reports that this year 154 applications have been received from Singapore’s pre-university students. Over the past two weeks a panel of judges has pored over all of these applications and now selected eight individual finalists. The finalists have been invited for interviews with the panel. Following the interviews, three Book Prize winners will be chosen.

The eight finalists are:

Mr. Matthew Chan, Raffles Institution
Ms. Goh Ruo Ting, Raffles Institution
Mr. Ashish Kumar, Raffles Institution
Ms. Heather Marie Lee, Hwa Chong Institution
Ms. Charisse Tay, Raffles Institution
Ms. Teo Sze Ying, Victoria J.C.
Ms. Sharlene Wong, NUS High School of Math and Science
Mr. Zhu Xi, Victoria J.C.