Papers from six Breck students out of 25 winning submissions were selected for publication by the 2012 National Society of High School Scholars Paper Awards.

Prentice Basten for her paper titled "Rondo:  A Vanished Community in the Present Day"

Samarth Damania for his paper titled “A Data-Mining Approach to Identify Factors that Contribute to High Pharmaceutical Drug Costs”

Caleb Kumar for his paper titled “Designing and Validating a Java Program to Diagnose Bladder Cancer”

Taylor McCanna for her paper titled “Engineering an Inexpensive Mobile Electric Field Mill to Track Changes in the Global Electric Circuit”

Claire Simpson and Jessica Ryvlin for their paper titled “Mercaptopyruvate-TEA: A Possible Antidote Against Threats of Chlorine-induced Lung Injury”