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Tell us a little bit about yourself

Riley Aitken Englewood High School

Tell us a little bit about yourself will follow my heart to where I’ll be happy. I know I will make the best out of every situation I go through.

Schelhaas Arapahoe High School

I was a senior captain of the varsity boys’ basketball team. Vice President of the Computer Science Club and the Chapter of the Technology Student Association. I was a student representative of the School Accountability Committee. I was a Link Crew Leader and was also a part of NHS. I attend youth group at Colorado Community Church as well as serving in the Children’s Ministry. I am a 2023 Daniels Fund Scholar. I plan on attending Colorado School of Mines in the fall. What is the most enduring memory from your high school career?

Mrs. Cornils’ Honors US History class because she always had fun inclusive activities that not only helped me understand the content but allowed me to hear di erent perspectives and work with people that I most likely would not have chosen to work with. is class lead to a lot of wonderful friend- ships with classmates as well as Mrs. Cornils. Talk about your role in society going forward. What issues do you feel drawn to address post-graduation and how do you plan to do that? e most enduring memory from my high school career would be my team making the playo s my senior year. We worked really hard to get to this point and I am so proud of my team for all the hard work and commitment we put in getting to the playo s.

During my time at Englewood High School, I have been involved in as much as I can. I have been a member of the Student Government all four years, and have been the Vice President my senior year. I also have been a part of the National Honor Society and Link Crew along with managing the girl’s varsity basketball team for 3 years. All four years of high school I have played on the girl’s varsity soccer team and have held the captain position during my junior and senior years. I will be attending the University of Colorado Boulder in the fall for business.

What is the most enduring memory from your high school career?

Talk about your role in society going forward. What issues do you feel drawn to address post-graduation and how do you plan to do that?

Colorado School of Mines.

My role is to continue working very hard in furthering my education and having a positive impact on the community of Golden and the campus of Colorado School of Mines. At some point in the future, I would love to start a charity that provides prosthetics to people in underdeveloped countries around the world. Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

I hope to be married with a family. I hope to coach my kids’ sports teams and be very invested in their lives. I hope to be in a leadership position at an engineering rm or to have a charity that produces prosthetics for underdeveloped countries with people who can’t a ord them.

My role in society moving forward is to be an advocate for issues I believe strongly in. I think it is important to use your voice and stand up for what you believe, and it takes leaders to show others that they can do the same. An issue I feel strongly drawn to address postgraduation is the stigma behind mental health. Mental health is so important and greatly impacts many people’s lives, but there is still such a stigma behind it. My plan to address this is to bring more awareness around it and be an advocate that mental health is not something to be ashamed of because so many people experience it every day.

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

In 20 years I see myself working in the sports business industry as it has always been my goal, speci cally sports marketing. I also see myself actively participating in my community to better our society. e foundation that my Englewood community has created for me has given me the support to achieve endless possibilities and I am excited to see what my future holds.

Sam Garcia Heritage High School

Tell us a little bit about yourself

I’ve been on the cross country team all four years, three of those years being on varsity and I was a senior captain this year. I’ve run track for three years, I’ve been inducted into NHS and was in the Heritage Choir and theatre program for three years. During my upperclassmen years, I’ve been a part of the Heritage Ambassador program helping welcome prospective families, 8th graders, and current Heritage families into the school. After high school, I’m attending Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I’m majoring in environmental studies and running with the school’s cross-country team. What is the most enduring memory from your high school career?

Amelia Klug Heritage High School

Tell us a little bit about yourself. roughout high school, I participated as a LINK member alongside my position as a LINK commissioner, a National Honors Society member, and a volunteer at Swedish Medical Center for four years. After graduation, I intend to further my academic career at Northeastern University pursuing a degree in behavioral neuroscience on a pre-med track.

What is the most enduring memory from your high school career?

The memories that have been the most influential from high school have been all the relationships that have been built and flourished over the years. From meeting some of the most caring and supportive teachers and mentors to establishing incredibly sincere and amicable friendships. The greatest academic skills, life advice and character-building I have been taught have helped me grow and will continue to help me to continue to grow. I will continue to cherish and utilize all the friendships, both peers and mentors, as I take on future academic and personal endeavors.

Talk about your role in society going forward. What issues do you feel drawn to address postgraduation and how do you plan to do that?

After I graduate I want to continue to pursue my interest in the medical eld. Over the past four years of high school, I have volunteered at a local hospital, meeting a variety of patients and professionals. Meeting authentic and passionate doctors who cared about patients so deeply instilled my desire to follow in their footsteps. In the future, I want to leave a mark in the eld of medicine and help answer the boundless unanswered questions posed in the eld.

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

In 20 years I hope to not only thrive in my professional career but be surrounded by an abundance of love and support from those around me. I aspire to build my own neurology practice with a group of collaborative and visionary doctors to help conduct research regarding the curing of neurodegenerative diseases. At home, I hope to of met lifelong friends surrounded by a loving family showered with success and happiness.

e most enduring memories from my high school would be anything with my cross country team and speci cally, our camping trip to Crested Butte in September for a race. We missed our school’s homecoming dance and decided to throw one on the soccer eld we were camping on. It was such a fun night and both the boys’ and girl’s teams ended up placing in the top two the next morning. Overall, I’m going to miss my team because they are a great group of people but I’ll always have my memories with them, such as this one.

Talk about your role in society going forward. What issues do you feel drawn to address postgraduation and how do you plan to do that?

I would like to make an impact on how us as humans impact the health of the environment. I feel very drawn to issues such as climate change and how humans disrupt various vital ecosystems by living unsustainably and polluting the Earth. I plan on addressing these issues by hopefully going into the environmental law program my college o ers at its law school to gain more knowledge on these issues.

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

In 20 years, I see myself with a nancially stable job, married, hopefully living somewhere beautiful like Alaska or the Paci c Northwest, and making a positive impact on the world in some shape or form.