student spotlight
By Lindsey Capritta
Shared Success
Students receive scholarship from New Albany Women’s Network
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Karthic with other student ambassadors at Technovation World Summit in 2020.
we’ve lived in the same house and I’ve gone to New Albany schools my entire life. It’s cool I got to stay in the same community growing up.” Being a part of that community has helped Sellars to make close friends and find ways to give back. She kept in contact with her Girl Scouts troop throughout school, and the group worked together on projects such as packing food up for people without housing and making blankets to give to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital at Christmastime. The group’s biggest project, she says, was helping clean the wetlands around New Albany. “We just started by picking up the trash around the wetlands,” Sellars says. “As we entered high school, we started helping build paths so that the wetlands were easier for people to walk on and there are more trails as well as more area www.healthynewalbanymagazine.com
Photos courtesy of Meghana Karthic
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hen the New Albany Women’s Network (NAWN) considers which graduating high schoolers to award its annual scholarship to, it looks not only for academic excellence but for candidates who exemplify student citizenship. “We look for students who are making a difference inside and outside of the community,” says Terri Erlenbach, the president of NAWN. “We’re looking for ways to help them and reward them for what they’ve done so far. To help them continue their dreams and education at a higher level.” These qualities certainly apply to the recent scholarship recipients Jadyn Sellars and Meghana Karthic. The two graduated from New Albany High School in the class of 2021. “I love New Albany – I feel that it gave me a lot of opportunities,” Sellars says. “I have grown up in New Albany my entire life. My whole family is there,
