TRIB TOTAL MEDIA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 · 7
Celaine Hornsby
School, grade:
Riverview
Junior/Senior
High School, 11
Parents: Catherine
and Dean Hornsby
Academic
achievements:
National Honor
Society; High Honor Roll; scholar ath-lete;
National History Day, documen-tary
second place.
Extracurricular activities: Ten-nis,
captain; softball; concert band;
marching band, squad leader; or-chestra;
prom committee; junior class
president; Spanish Club, president;
Key Club; PMEA District Band; AV
Honors Band; pit orchestra; Dance
Club; PA Educational Technology Expo
& Conference presenter; Three Rivers
Educational Technology Conference
presenter; Model United Nations.
Community involvement: CCD
teacher, volunteer; altar server;
church festival volunteer; Valos
Chocolates, employee; Key Club
volunteer activities.
Plans/goals: I hope to attend Baylor
University in Waco, Texas, to study
engineering. Through their Engineers
With a Mission Program, I hope to
travel to third-world countries and
solve some of their issues.
Audrey Jen
School, grade:
Vincentian
Academy, 12
Parents; Jim
Jen and Nancy
Schreyer
Academic
achievements:
International Bac-calaureate
(IB) Diploma Candidate;
Weighted GPA over 4 years: 5.53;
recipient of Seton Hill University’s
Women in Science Biology Award; Na-tional
Honor Society; Degree of Honor
from National Forensics League.
Extracurricular activities: Girl
Scouts; soccer; student council;
Vincentian Academy Royal Ambas-sador;
Vincentian Academy Summer
Session Senior Counselor; Art Club.
Community involvement: Founding
member of Saint Ferdinand Catholic
Church Garden Committee; altar
server; Miracle League of Southwest-ern
PA; Vincentian Academy Summer
Youth Basketball Camps volunteer.
Plans/goals: I plan on attending a
four-year university and majoring in
plant and environmental sciences. I
am not sure what specific career
path I will pursue; I am interested
in tackling world hunger by improv-ing
food production and distribution
systems.
Kevin Huber
School, grade:
Ligonier Valley
High School, 12
Parents: Kathy
and Brian Huber
Academic
achievements:
National Honor
Society, Vice Presi-dent;
Spanish National Honor Society;
Distinguished Honors; Student of the
Month; Ashland University Scholar-ship
recipient; Ashland University
Honors Program Scholarship.
Extracurricular activities: One
Road Club, co-president; soccer, co-captain;
Alliance of Student Athletes;
track; quiz team; science quiz team;
Loyalhanna United Soccer Club; musi-cal;
indoor soccer; piano lessons.
Community involvement: Valley
Youth Network, member of leadership
team; PrimeTime at Covenant Presby-terian
Church, member of leadership
team; PrimeTime youth worship band
at Covenant Church; Valley Youth
Network mission trip team; food pan-try;
vaction Bible school; End Hunger
Café; Carol and Dave’s Roadhouse,
waiter.
Plans/goals: I will be attending
Ashland University in the fall to major
in sports management. I will also be a
member of the honors program.
Courtney Kennedy
School, grade:
Fox Chapel Area
High School, 11
Parents: Heather
and Sam Kennedy
Academic
achievements:
National Honor
Society; Student-
Athlete Award; AP Scholar Award;
National German Honor Society; Mu
Alpha Theta (Math Honor Society);
Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership
Award; American Association of Uni-versity
Women’s STEM-CAN Award.
Extracurricular activities: HOSA:
Future Health Professionals; field
hockey; German Club; ultimate
frisbee; Young Life; Fox Tales Quar-terly;
Westinghouse Science Honors
Institute; DESI (Distinguished Ethnic
Society of India); Math Club.
Community involvement: Girls in
STEM educational outreach initiative;
All of Us Care (after school program
for children); Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Plans/goals: I plan to obtain an
undergraduate degree in engineering
and a Ph.D. in the field of medicine.
It is important to me that my career
path allows me to expand my out-reach
to young girls by helping them
realize their extensive capabilities in
STEM-related fields.
Chloe Jaworski
School, grade:
Mt Pleasant Area
Junior/Senior
High School, 11
Parents: John and
Melissa Jaworski
Academic
achievements:
Excellence and
High Honors; CSAY, president; YEA,
president; tutoring; Pennsylvania Free
Enterprise Week; Workforce Develop-ment
Program; yearbook, editor; quiz
team; student council.
Extracurricular activities: Bas-ketball,
speaking captain; football,
manager; Letters for Dom, leader of
event; Brady’s Got Talent, leader of
event; Interact Club; Spanish Club;
The Future Is Mine Club; prom com-mittee;
Physics Club; SADD; Volleyball
Club; Sign Language Club; Chess
Club; American Legion Lady’s Auxil-lary;
church youth group.
Community involvement: Lenten
dinners at my church; Rotary Club;
Lions Club; YMCA, child care; vaction
Bible school; church volunteer.
Plans/goals: My plans include play-ing
basketball at a four-year college
and getting my degree in education.
Once out of college, I hope to get a
job teaching at a school, as well as
coaching a basketball team.
Ik-Hyun (Thomas) Kim
School, grade:
Vincentian
Academy, 12
Parent: Rinnah
Kim
Academic
achievements:
National Honor
Society; National
Latin Exam Gold Medal; National
Latin Exam Silver Medal; Academic
High Honors; IB-Diploma Candidate.
Extracurricular activities: American
Mathematics Competition; four-time
American Invitational Mathematics
Exam qualifier; USAMO Qualifier;
ARML Individual Round: 6; A-Star
(A*) Winter Math Camp.
Community involvement: Docent
at Carnegie Museum of Natural His-tory;
founder of Friends of Emmaus;
mentor and coach of MOEM Summer
Camp at Hosack Elementary School;
student ambassador; Art of Problem
Solving contest moderator; cellist.
Plans/goals: I will pursue computa-tional
biology research with an aim to
eventually develop a mechanism to
better support advancement of treat-ment
options for rare diseases. While
doing so, I will continue serving my
community through volunteering for
local organizations, like I did for the
Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh.
Brady Hunker
School, grade:
Mt Pleasant Area
Junior/Senior
High School, 11
Parents: Chris and
Jen Hunker
Academic
achievements:
Academic 4.3
GPA; Gamma Omega gifted student
and Junior Class representative;
National Honor Society “Student
That Inspires” award; Mount Pleasant
Glass and Ethnic Festival “Student
Who Sparkles” Award; Tri-M National
Music Honor Society.
Extracurricular activities: Inline
hockey; choral; student theater;
SADD; Physics Club, Chemistry Club,
Spanish Club, Chess Club.
Community involvement: Make
A Wish “Light Up a Child’s Life”
campaign speaker; Relay for Life team
member: Mount Pleasant Relay for
Life cancer survivor speaker; Relay
for Life master of opening ceremony;
“Cure Rock”/ CHP (Children’s
Hospital of Pittsburgh) fundraiser
event speaker; WDVE Children’s Rock
Telethon fundraiser speaker.
Plans/goals: I wish to pursue a
career in chemical or mechanical engi-neering.
My goal is to attend the Uni-versity
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
Rushmin Khazanchi
School, grade:
Moon Area Senior
High School, 12
Parents: Anju and
Rajeev Khazanchi
Academic
achievements:
Selected (with full
scholarship) for the
2017 Pennsylvania Governor’s School
for the Sciences (PGSS); National
Merit Semifinalist (awaiting Final-ist
Status); poem “Reigns of Peace”
published in Creative Communication
2015 poem anthology.
Extracurricular activities: Future
Medical Professionals of America
Club; Forensics (Speech and Debate)
Club; student council; tennis; Kashmiri
Overseas Association Western PA; PA
Governor’s STEM Challenge; Aca-demic
League; Math League.
Community involvement: Univer-sity
of Pittsburgh Hillman Cancer
Center Research Intern; Kumon Tutor-ing
Center Paid Teaching Assistant;
Student Intern/Medical Shadower.
Plans/goals: Using the skill I have
developed throughout my high school
years, I hope to study biomedical
engineering as an undergraduate
student. I would like to go on to earn a
medical degree and dedicate my life to
improving the lives of others.
Alison Huffman
School, grade:
Southmoreland
High School, 12
Parent: Cindi
Huffman
Academic
achievements:
Ranked 1st in class
of 2018 since 9th
grade; Hugh O’Brien Youth Leader-ship
alumni; HOBY Academic All-
Star; Westinghouse Science Honors
Institute; Class of 2018 Vice Presi-dent;
National Honor Society; Penn
State Fayette 4.0 Club.
Extracurricular activities: Faith
in Action Club; Pennsylvania Free
Enterprise Week; student council;
soccer; Make-A-Difference Club;
Youth Education Association; Reading
Buddies; track; jazz band; musical,
percussionist; concert band; District
Band; Westmoreland County Music
Educators Association Junior High
Band, Percussionist; BOTS IQ.
Community involvement: Arith-makic,
founder; President’s Volunteer
Service Award; Hugh O’Brien Youth
(HOBY) Leadership.
Plans/goals: My plans include at-tending
Penn State Behrend to study
electrical engineering and play soccer.
I would like to apply my degree in the
audio and music field.
Carys Kenny-Howell
School, grade:
Riverview
Junior/Senior
High School, 12
Parents: Rhian
Kenny and Jack
Howell
Academic
achievements:
National Honor Society; High Honors;
Williams College Book Award; AP
Scholar Award; State Finalist National
History Day.
Extracurricular activities: Soft-ball;
golf; student council; Key Club;
marching band; concert band; French
Club; track and field; AV honors band;
pit orchestra; CyberPatriot; National
History Day; Model United Nations.
Community involvement: Miracle
League of Southwestern PA; St. Mar-garet’s
Hospital Ambulatory Surgery
Unit and Post-Operative Care Unit;
Three Lakes Golf Course youth camp.
Plans/goals: I will attend Simon Fra-ser
University in Vancouver, Canada,
to study biomedical physiology while
playing softball, contributing to
research and actively volunteering.
I will then continue on to medical
school to pursue a career as a doctor,
where I will impact the lives of others
and help them to achieve their health
goals.