Four diligent high school students – Molly Breakstone, Madelyn Germano, Brandon Novarro and Darienne Rogers – were recently named Commended Students by the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program, in recognition of their outstanding results in the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Out of the more than 1.5 million students in the nation who participated in the annual competition, the four Islip students all scored among the top 50,000.