Homeless Long Island Teenager Is Intel Competition Semifinalist

(CBSNewYork / AP)  - Samantha Garvey has good reason to be the recipient of high fives and congratulations from the faculty and students in the hallways at Brentwood High School.

The 17-year-old senior says she cannot believe that she is one of the semifinalists in the highly prestigious Intel Science Competition, in part because she lives in a Bay Shore homeless shelter with her parents, brother, and twin sisters.

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    (CBSNewYork / AP) - Samantha Garvey has good reason to be the recipient of high fives and congratulations from the...
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    This is awesome. But also, since it’s all about ME and MY thoughts, is it bad that I’ll always think of her as a...
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    an awesome story. And it gets better, as Suffolk County officials have offered
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    ^Money doesn’t do it all.
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    Wow. Go, Samantha!