Q. In what grade are you currently enrolled?

A. This will be my last year at Emmaus High School as I am a senior.

Q. Please provide the first names of your family members: parents, siblings and pets.

A. My parents are Alicia and Brian. I don’t have any siblings or pets.

Q. What is your favorite subject? Why?

A. My favorite subject is science. I’ve always had an interest in learning about how our world works. Plus, chemistry is pretty cool.

Q. Have you received any special awards or recognition?

A. I have been on the Principal’s Honor Roll multiple times throughout high school and I have received multiple student of the month awards at Lehigh Career & Technical Institute. I am also a member of the National Technical Honor Society.

Q. Are you involved in any extracurricular activities? How has being involved in these organizations impacted your high school experience?

A. I am involved in quite a bit at school. I am a graphic designer for our school newspaper, The Stinger. I’m also the president of the Emmaus Meteorology Club, which I have been in for all four years of high school, as well as the EHS Marching Band, where I am a percussionist. I also am a member of LCTI’s chapter of Pennsylvania DECA, where I have won first place for my program, Materials Handling & Logistics, in the most recent state competition. These activities have definitely helped me become more social and open to new things, as well as overall making me a better person.

Q. What do you consider your biggest challenge to date?

A. I would say my biggest challenge so far has been climbing up to first place in the DECA state competition. There’s a pretty lengthy written exam, as well as a couple of in-person interviews, and the people you are going up against are pretty experienced in what they do. I am too though, and I came out on top.

Q. What is your next goal after high school?

A. After high school, I plan to head right into the workforce, which my program at LCTI, Supply Chain Management & Logistics, has been preparing me for since my freshman year.

Q. If you could spend an evening conversing with a historically significant person, whom would you choose? Why?

A. I would choose to talk to President Theodore Roosevelt. He is the one who established many of the modern regulations regarding business, developed the Panama Canal and established the first national parks. I would like to know what America was like in his time, and what it was like to establish all of these things that are followed, used and admired today

Q. For what would you like to be remembered?

A. I would like to be remembered as kind and hardworking.

Q. Do you have any advice for your peers?

A. My advice to everyone else would be to simply support others. Listen to them, help them out, give them advice, whatever is needed. Everyone always says work as a team. While you may not want to, it is important that you do. That’s how you make friends that could stick with you throughout your life.