iera s Lee nominated to be Presidential Scholar B CA L OTALA As a child, Viera High School senior Shannon Lee used to like to build well, not just houses for all of her stuffed animals. We’re talking mansions. Now, the future architect’s work is really paying off. Lee was informed in anuary that she is one of five Florida high school students the first from revard County according to Viera High School teacher Carrie Humphreys — to be named as a candidate in the 2020 United States Presidential Scholars Program. “It’s amazing,” Lee said. “I never thought I would be able to get this far into it.” Established in 1964, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program spotlights the academic achievement of outstanding graduating high school seniors. In 2015, it was expanded to include students in the career and technical fields ( T . Lee was nominated by Humphreys, Viera High’s CTE Department chair, and went on to win the Brevard County Public Schools and state competitions. Final applications for the national award were due Feb.
cardboard box that came into 25, with the semifinalists my house, I took it. being announced in April. “My mom labeled me as the The 2020 Presidential Tape Monster because we’d Scholars will be named in get scotch tape and I’d be like, May. ‘That’s mine.’ ” Students who receive Despite that interest, it the honor will receive wasn’t until Lee had to do a an expense-paid trip to class project that she began Washington D.C. in June, to settle on architecture as a where they will receive possible career path. their Presidential Scholars “It began in fourth grade,” Medallion at a ceremony she said. “My teacher had sponsored by the White us do one of those cheesy House during the National autobiography flip book type Recognition Program (NRP) things. One of the questions and will attend a series of was, ‘What do you want to events held in their honor. be?’ Before that, I had always Humphreys said it’s her said a doctor or a vet ust understanding Brevard like every other kid. Public Schools has never “But then, I decided to take had a student selected to represent the state of Florida. it a little bit more seriously. My favorite school subjects “She is driven, she has have always been art-related amazing talent and she works hard to reach the goals things and math. I love those two different categories. that she sets,” Humphreys “My teacher and my mom said of Lee. (who is a graphic designer) “She finds something that told me about architecture, she’s interested in and she which I had never heard researches. ‘What can I do about before then.” to do that extra little bit in In addition to taking part order to get there?’ ” Lee’s interest in designing in Odyssey of the Mind and Family, Career Community began at a young age. Leaders of America (FCCLA) “I always built things,” she competitions, Lee spent the said. “I had so many stuffed summer after her sophomore animals and I built homes year attending a design for every single one. I was exploration program at the just obsessed with it. I built University of Florida. mansions. Every single
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iera High School senior Shannon ee is believed to be the rst Brevard ounty Public Schools student to represent the state of Florida as a candidate to become a .S. Presiden al Scholar.
Last year, she took part in a residency program at the Fallingwater Institute in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Now she’s putting together an application for one of the country’s highest honors a high school student can receive.
“The other ones were more so based on what Ms. Humphreys had written,” Lee said. “I didn’t really have any voice in them. “But now this one, I have to write six different essays and really put my voice in it.” VV
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