6 · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 TRIB TOTAL MEDIA
Chloe Ditka
School, grade:
Vincentian
Academy, 12
Parent: Laura
Ditka
Academic
achievements:
National Honor So-ciety;
High Honor
Roll; All honors classes
Enrolled in full International Baccalau-reate
program and Diploma Candi-date;
National Forensics League.
Extracurricular activities: Senior
Class Representative on Student
Council; volleyball; track; mock trial,
lead council; piano; musical; forensics;
Model UN; basketball.
Community involvement: Planned,
coordinated and held a spaghetti
dinner fundraiser to raise money for
Crisis Center North; Volunteer as a
Royal Ambassador to give tours and
to promote Vincentian Academy;
volunteer to help at boys and girls
basketball camps held by Vincentian
Academy; Brusters employee.
Plans/goals: I plan to attend a four-year
college and then go on to medical
school to become a surgeon. I want to
help those who are sick and suffering,
and I want to go on to teach future
generations how to help others using
medicine.
Erin Grandgeorge
School, grade:
Greater Latrobe
Senior High
School, 12
Parents: Scott and
Lisa Grandgeorge
Academic
achievements:
Distinguished
Honor Roll; National Honor Society;
Rotary Student of the Month; Spanish
National Honor Society; National Field
Hockey Coaches Association National
Academic Squad Member.
Extracurricular activities: Field
hockey; lacrosse; Letterman’s Club;
Key Club; Interact Club; Link Crew
leader; school blood drive.
Community involvement: Outdoor
Odyssey mentor; Patient Care Team
hospital volunteer; elementary school
tutor, Study Buddies; St. Vincent
Youth Ministry; altar server; Little
League concession worker.
Plans/goals: My academic and vol-unteer
experiences, along with my de-sire
to help heal people, has led my to
pursuing a degree in applied physiol-ogy
and kinesiology from a four-year
university and continuing on to obtain
a doctorate of physical therapy. My
goal is to work in a VA hospital to give
back to service members that have
sacrificed so much for our country.
Lauren Duderstadt
School, grade:
Hampton
High School, 12
Parent: Janet
Duderstadt
Academic
achievements:
Voted Most Likely
to Succeed by
senior class; National Honor Society;
Girl Scout Girl of Distinction; Girl
Scout Gold Award; Girl Scout Silver
Award; Presidential Scholar; Girl
Scout Bronze Award; 1st place world
champions at the Global Conference
for Educational robotics; second place
State K’nex STEM Design Challenge;
first place Pittsburgh K’nex STEM De-sign
Challenge; on track to be Senior
Scholar (top 10 percent of class); on
track to be Summa Cum Laude.
Extracurricular activities: Girl
Scouts; soccer; karate student; Mind-
ToMaterial (my jewelry business).
Community involvement: Girl
Scouts, all awards were for commu-nity
service projects; middle school
mock trial mentor.
Plans/goals: My plan is to become
a mechanical engineer with either a
major or minor in industrial design.
My goal is to design revolutionary
products that make a real difference
in the world.
Madelyn Haberberger
School, grade:
Penn-Trafford
High School, 12
Parents: Jennifer
and Stephen
Haberberger
Academic
achievements:
High Honors;
National Honor Society.
Extracurricular activities: ;
Penn-Trafford High School homecom-ing
queen; cheerleading, varsity cap-tain;
varsity All-American recipient;
varsity Pin Across America campaign
winner; Community Action program;
drama guild; encore show choir group;
Forensic Science Club, creative direc-tor;
gifted program; mock trial, best
advocate, best witness, best swap
lawyer, regional runners-up; Ovation
a capella group; select choir; Span-ish
Club; student government, class
secretary; Students Against Destruc-tive
Decisions; Thespians; Video Club;
Young Democrats Club.
Community involvement: Leo Club;
Sacred Heart Church fish fry server;
vacation Bible school aide, Ascension
Church.
Plans/goals: I plan to attend a four-year
college or university and study
film/television production and com-munications.
Brooke Giger
School, grade:
McKeesport Area
High School, 12
Parent: Philip
Giger
Academic
achievements:
Yearly Honor
Roll; Outstanding
Student Award in Honors Physical
Science; Perfect Attendance Award;
American Legion Award; Graduation
Marshall; National Honor Society.
Extracurricular activities: Dale
Carnegie Graduate; Dale Carnegie
Breakthrough Award; Dale Carnegie
Performance Award RunnerUp; U.S.
youth soccer regional semifinalist
(Arsenal FC); State Cup Champion.
Community involvement: Special
Needs and Life Skills Buddy; Sunday
School aide; Tiger Fest Basket Sales;
Locks of Love Donor; David Flavius
Soccer Camp assistant; babysitter.
Plans/goals: I intend to major in
chemical engineering with a minor
in mathematics at an academically
rigorous university. My dream is to
create something that significantly
gives back to the world or work within
the realm of higher education as a
professor or dean of admissions at
the university of my choice or one of
the military academies.
Ella Horner
School, grade:
Vincentian
Academy, 11
Parents: Karin and
Robin Horner
Academic
achievements:
High Honor
Roll; IB Honors;
Westinghouse Science Honors’
Institute.
Extracurricular activities: Chorus;
tennis; student ambassador; student
council, decorating committee;
musical, ensemble; VA costume com-mittee
for Musical, costume assistant;
school newspaper, editor-in-chief/
head of layout.
Community involvement: Saint
Lucy’s Medallion Ball candidate;
Sunday school, teacher/helper; vaca-tion
Bible school, crew leader; Junior
Achievement, teacher; Vincentian
Academy Gala, volunteer; Christmas
caroler at Vincentian Nursing Home;
Animal Friends, volunteer; summer
reading program, creator.
Plans/goals: I want to study
forensic psychology for my under-graduate;
then earn my doctorate
in neuroscience from the University
of Pittsburgh. I also want to travel
to gain a better sense of the world’s
diversity.
Grace Fowler
School, grade:
Kiski Area
High School, 12
Parents: Steve
and Jodi Fowler
Academic
achievements:
National Honor
Society; High
Honor Roll.
Extracurricular activities: Yearbook
staff, editor; Future Business Leaders
of America; chorus; county chorus;
Bible Club; spring musical; Good
Morning Kiski; student tech help
desk; Senior Class Committee.
Community involvement: Key Club;
Genre’s Kids with Cancer Fund; Rapha
House; Norwin Christian Church mis-sions;
Cavalier Closet; student council;
The Blessing Board; Lifeline Christian
missions; Union Mission Homeless
Shelter; Jacob’s Creek Watershed;
Sonward Youth Programs.
Plans/goals: I will be attending
Lee University to major in business
administration, with an emphasis in
nonprofit management to pursue a
career in nonprofit work. I want to
be able to impact people who are
in need, affected by issues such as
homelessness, terminal illnesses,
child abuse, drug addictions or human
trafficking.
Karns Hazlett
School, grade:
Deer Lakes
High School, 12
Parents: Todd and
Sandra Hazlett
Academic
achievements:
Spanish National
Honor Society; Na-tional
Honor Society; Alle-Kiski Valley
Art Show participant; PASC Commit-tee
Chair of the Month; Best Buddies
Leadership Conference attendee;
Rotary Youth Leadership Award.
Extracurricular activities: Vol-leyball;
basketball; Best Buddies;
PASC State Conference Finance and
Fundraising Committee Chair; PASC
State Conference Hotels and Trans-portation
Committee Chair.
Community involvement: Middle
school volleyball junior coach; Trans-figuration
Parish lector; vacation
Bible school; CCD aide for children
with autism; CCD substitute teacher;
Transfiguration Community Days
booth; St. Victor’s fish fry; St. Ursula
Fair community days.
Plans/goals: I hope to attend a four-year
university and major in tourism,
leisure and event planning with a
minor in business management. After
graduation, I hope to work corporately
in hotels or cruise lines.
Joseph Edmundson
School, grade:
Serra Catholic
High School, 12
Parents: Scott
and Kathleen
Edmundson
Academic
achievements:
Spanish Honor So-ciety;
Tri-M music honor society; Na-tional
Honor Society; Quill and Scroll
honor society; Science National Honor
Society; Ruby Honor Roll (Highest
honor roll at Serra Catholic).
Extracurricular activities: Boy
Scouts; marching band; youth
ministry; Future Business Leaders
of America; musical; Junior Achieve-ment;
jazz band; concert band.
Community involvement: Mis-sion
Trip to Youngstown, Ohio; Eagle
Ambassador admissions aid; cashier
at CVS pharmacy; Produce to People;
Light of Life Mission; altar server.
Plans/goals: I aspire to attend an
international service school to study a
degree associated with international
relations. Having already been ac-cepted
to the Walsh School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University and
hoping to be able to attend in the fall,
I plan to apply my education to do
ambassador and/or nonprofit work in
foreign countries.
Olivia Haberberger
School, grade:
Penn-Trafford
High School, 12
Parents: Jennifer
and Stephen
Haberberger
Academic
achievements:
High Honors;
Student of the Month; Noble Warrior;
three-time Future Business Lead-ers
of America regional champion;
AP Scholar Award; National Honor
Society; Top 20.
Extracurricular activities: Aca-demic
quiz team, varsity; Community
Action program, co-president; drama
guild; elementary school tutoring;
Future Business Leaders of America,
president; Leo Club, secretary; mock
trial; peer tutoring; Spanish Club;
student government, class president;
Thespians, class representative; ten-nis,
captain; Young Democrats Club,
president.
Community involvement: Subway,
employee; vacation Bible school aide;
Sacred Heart Church fish fry volun-teer.
Plans/goals: I plan to attend a four-year
university and possibly pursue
medical school.