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Connie Ing will study in Israel.

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Saratoga teen works on Indian reservation

Colleen Corcoran, 16, of Saratoga is spending two weeks as a Landmark volunteer. She is one of 12 teenagers volunteering at Running Strong for American Indian Youth on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Colleen is a senior and honor student at St. Francis High School. She is also the winner of the school's chemistry award and the Colonial Dames National Essay Contest.

Landmark Volunteers, based in Sheffield, Mass., is a nonprofit summer service organization offering high-school students the opportunity to work at one of 26 historical, cultural, environmental or social service sites across the country.

Running Strong for American Indian Youth is an agency of Christian Relief Services, a non-sectarian humanitarian organization. Running Strong serves the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) people. The film Dances With Wolves was filmed on the reservation.

Connie Ing studies at institute in Israel

Connie Ing of Saratoga joins 71 other recent high-school graduates this summer at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rebovot, Israel. She departed earlier this month to spend a month studying at one of the world's foremost research centers.

The Summer Science Institute brings together teenagers from 18 countries who meet with scientists in hopes of doing research in fields of their individual interests. Included in the five-week program are trips to Israel's most modern science-based industries and desert field trips.

Ing is the daughter of Budge and Merlinda Ing of Saratoga. She was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, the recipient of the Noyce Foundation Science Scholarship and a National Merit finalist.

A recent graduate of Saratoga High School, Ing will attend Yale University in the fall, concentrating her studies in physics and biology. While at the Weizmann Institute, she plans to study neurobiology and particle physics.