2005 Tomorrow25

Bentley is proud to announce that the following students have been named the 2005 Tomorrow25 (click on a student's name for a list of key accomplishments):

Christopher Carroll
Lynn, MA — Lynn English High School

  • Volunteer for My Brother's Table, a shelter that feeds the homeless
  • President of junior class
  • Three-sport varsity athlete
  • Homeroom representative, Student Council
  • Captain of Lynn English football team

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Tewfik Cassis
Cairo, Egypt — Cairo American College

  • Advocate in the International Court of Justice for the Model United Nations Club
  • Selected as a member of Youth Assembly in the Hague
  • Project leader for African Hope School Community Service Program
  • Peer Support Program counselor
  • Participated in service-learning project working with street children in the Philippines

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Ashley Chang
San Jose, CA — Leland High School

  • Co-founder and president of E*PACT, a club dedicated to advocating community teamwork and improving the environment
  • Vice President of The Spot Youth Council
  • First-place winner in national speech and debate tournaments
  • Received San Jose Good Neighbor Award from San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales
  • State member, National Piano Playing auditions

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Christina Ciprian-Matthews
Montclair, NJ — Montclair High School

  • Student ambassador to the Minority Student Achievement Network
  • Selected participant in ANYTOWN, a weeklong youth leadership camp
  • Active in student government
  • Member of National Honor Society
  • Class officer at Montclair High School

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Alexander Cowen
Mamaroneck, NY — Mamaroneck Senior High School

  • District parliamentarian for Future Business Leaders of America
  • Camp counselor in charge of teaching CSS, HTML, and Java Script
  • Started and owns web site development firm and dessert catering company
  • Contributing editor for several local newspapers
  • Ceramic artwork on display at the Maritime Museum in Norwalk, Conn.

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Sangu Delle
Accra, Ghana — The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ

  • Founder and President of the Young Promoters of Health and Human Rights
  • Received Best Delegate Awards at the MIT Model UN Conference (First Ever African High School Delegation to accomplish this), the Ghana International School Model UN Conference and the Lincoln International Model UN Conference
  • Founder and Chief-Editor of an African newsletter that champions the rights of AIDS victims
  • Owns a local clothing company in Ghana called "XNLC Clothing Company" which makes customized urban wear
  • Wrote a book entitled "Contemporary Africa Through Poetry" which will be published this summer

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Paul DiCola
New Rochelle, NY — Iona Preparatory School

  • Eagle Scout leading project to refurbish Boys & Girls Club
  • Nominated to National Youth Leadership Forum
  • Published in anthology of short stories
  • School newspaper reporter
  • Leadership Workshop participant

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Amy Dombrowski
Edinboro, PA — Mercyhurst Preparatory School

  • School chapter member, Amnesty International
  • Vice President of the Holocaust Project and the Shoah Project, Holocaust awareness organizations
  • Religious education teacher
  • Active in Hooked on Books, a reading program for inner-city children
  • Member of the speech and debate team

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Tracey Guida
Hawthorne, NY — Westlake High School

  • President of the New York State Math Honor Society at Westlake High School
  • Math and Spanish tutor
  • Religious education teacher
  • Founded arts and crafts club for middle school students
  • Historic house museum volunteer guide

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Anjali Gupta
Hockessin, DE — The Charter School of Wilmington

  • President and Treasurer, Indian American Association of Delaware Youth Group
  • Founder and President, school chapter of Delaware Kick Butts Group, youth group for tobacco control
  • Organized an Anti-Smoking Awareness Day at The Charter School
  • Led the school Environmental Club in securing funding for community environment project

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Kate Kolbert-Hyle
Philadelphia, PA — Germantown Friends School

  • Led committee to plan Quaker Youth Leadership Conference in the Philadelphia region
  • Interned full time at 7 For All Mankind
  • Executive editor of school newspaper
  • Captain of women's varsity soccer team
  • Orchestra and choir member

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Kyle Langan
Bridgeport, CT — Fairfield College Preparatory School

  • Officer and advisory member to the Board of Directors for YouthSpeak, a regional youth council
  • Participated in Rosebud Sioux Reservation camp for Sioux children
  • Attended the Leadership Institute for Entrepreneurship
  • First-place winner in American Legion oratorical contest, a competition addressing constitutional issues
  • Involved with Students for Educational Excellence through Diversity

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Vikas Lonakadi
Houston, TX — Clear lake High School

  • Founder and President, Science National Honor Society
  • Captain of varsity Academic Quiz Bowl team
  • Member-at-large for Houston Mayor's Youth Council Program
  • Volunteered more than 300 hours in Cardiology Department of Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital
  • Organized candidate forum for U.S. Congressional District 22

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Simon Mahler
Czech Republic — International School of Prague

  • Worked as assistant IT administrator at Czech Salvation Army headquarters
  • Participant in Math Counts competition in Moscow
  • Participant in International Honor Band in Berlin
  • Longtime Boy Scout, passing prestigious survival camp test
  • Varsity cross country team captain, varsity basketball player

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Vrutika Mody
Singapore — Singapore American School

  • Class President
  • Vice President of Peace Initiative, a human rights organization in Singapore
  • Organized fundraiser that donated $55,000 to Tsunami victims
  • Co-chair of Security Council at the IASAS Model U.N. Conference
  • Chosen to represent Singapore at the Global Young Leaders Conference

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Anthony Orlando
Sugarloaf, PA — MMI Preparatory School

  • Formed a team to raise money for American Cancer Society's Relay for Life
  • Organized an advocacy committee to lobby for cancer-related bills
  • Implemented Resiliency Counseling Program within Catholic Social Services
  • Founded a chapter of Future Business Leaders of America
  • Raised more than $600 in advertisements and sponsorships for student newspaper

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Jean Alexander Otrakji
Rumson,NJ — Institut Le Rosey - Rolle, Switzerland

  • Presently working on a Hewlett-Packard mentored economics project with telementor.org, examining the effects of debt reduction on the African nation of Mali. The goal is to highlight the most likely sources of debt reduction and the potential impact of the redirection on education in Mali.
  • Founder and creator of www.cablejump.com, a web site which highlights film and raises awareness and money for a number of charitable organizations including, Doctors Without Borders, USA Freedom Corps, Tsunami Relief through Mercy Corps and Oxfam, Millennium Development Project and the Literacy Site online
  • Named by Teen People magazine as one of the "Top 20 Teens who will Change the World"
  • Davidson Young Scholar

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Alyssa Penner
Wichita, KS — The Independent School

  • Organized Adopt-A-Nursing Home project
  • Acts as a grief counselor at a children's camp
  • First two-time state champion in public speaking
  • Six-year volunteer at the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice
  • Performed at Carnegie Hall as member of the Master Arts Youth Chorale

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Alexis Petrovich
Allentown, PA — Parkland High

  • Founded custom jewelry company Lex-Wear
  • Hosted and sponsored holiday jewelry benefit for Make-A-Wish and March of Dimes
  • President of Students Against Destructive Decisions
  • National Vice President, Peers Assisting Learning Support
  • Organized Jingle Bell Rock and Battle of the Bands to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank and Make-A-Wish

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Jennifer Rogers
Upton, MA — Nipmuc Regional High School

  • Co-founder of BearHugs organization that donates teddy bears to shelters, orphanages and other children's groups
  • Assisted in project to raise funds for the Evergreen Center, which works to maximize potential of students with severe developmental disabilities
  • Member of National Honor Society
  • Participant in DECA program

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Tyler M. Sanchez
Racine, WI — The Prairie School

  • Created Notes for Hope, a recording of his own piano compositions where proceeds will benefit The United Way and The American Kidney Fund
  • Participated in Carnegie Mellon's Summer Academy for Math and Sciences program
  • Three-year varsity soccer and tennis player
  • Vice President of Key Club
  • Attained level of Eagle Scout

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Lashay Shepard
South End, MA — West Roxbury High School

  • Youth community organizer for Hyde Square Task Force
  • Works on improvement and empowerment in the Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury
  • Increased voter turnout in her neighborhood by 80 percent last year
  • Active in community development project to serve youth needs
  • Organized community meeting to bring attention to youth-on-youth violence

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Alexis Sturdy
Cooper City, FL — Cooper City High School

  • Volunteered in Uganda, Africa, with the children's organization Right to Play
  • Taught arts and crafts to children as volunteer at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
  • Winner of Patrick Stewart Human Rights Scholarship
  • Founder and president of Amnesty International student group at her school
  • Organized food drives for hurricane victims in Haiti

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Christopher Ting
Concord, MA — Concord-Carlisle Regional High School

  • Organized a service project to clear invasive vegetation for Minuteman National Historic Park
  • Coordinated and taught English and American culture lessons in Taiwan
  • Accepted to Northeastern Senior District Band
  • Participates in school's moot court on the Debate Team
  • Achieved level of Eagle Scout

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Frances Vernon
Cedar Rapids, IA — George Washington Senior High School

  • Leads T-Shirts for Africa program, through which high-school students donate T-Shirts to Zimbabwe
  • Three-year volunteer with American Red Cross Aids Prevention Program
  • Member of local newspaper's Youth Advisory and Youth Power boards
  • Participated in a research mentorship program at UC Santa Barbara
  • Captain of cross country team and varsity tennis player

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Downoad the Tomorrow25 spread in the May 20, 2005 issue of TIME Magazine and see who will be the leaders of the future.

 

Download the Tomorrow25 article in the summer 2005 issue of Observer magazine.