WE LEAD High School Environmental Leader Award Winners 2007 Winner Lindsay Herlihy Lindsay has completed over a thousand hours of community service in the form of bird counts, bird-banding, raptor care, and frog monitoring. In addition to her passion for birds and wildlife, Lindsay has volunteered for after school recreation programs and instructed a children’s martial arts class. Written and presented by Sara Trunzo, Environmental Writing, Junior 2007 Honorable Mentions Brooke Welty Brooke Welty has participated in activities such as Outward Bound, Student Conservation Association volunteering, and the Environmental Club, of which she is the current president. Brooke also created a “Green Team” at her school to monitor energy consumption and is working to obtain a grant that will make her school more sustainable. Written and presented by Sara Trunzo, Environmental Writing, Junior 2006 Winner Laura Maki Laura has completed over 650 hours of community service. Highlights of her many and varied activities include organizing a teen center, starting an animal rights club at SHS, competing on the school’s fencing and Nordic ski teams, competing in the New Hampshire Envirothon Aquatics Study and helping to organize a community mural project for the city of Claremont, NH. She also spent two summers volunteering with the Student Conservation Association, first at Utah Dinosaur National Monument and in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park. Ms. Bertocci says of Laura, “ In all my years as an educator, I have rarely known a student as enthusiastic or involved as Laura Maki.”
Angela Possinger Angela been very active with the State Champion Environthon team – she has been president since 2002 and has served as team coach. She volunteered for 4 years at a therapeutic riding center, teaches piano, she has also volunteered as part of the Heifer Project International. Mr. Field says of Angela, “She serves has an exemplary role model for the younger members in her 4-H club.”
Gina D’Angelo Gina has traveled and done spider research in Costa Rica, she is captain of her Envirothon team and is active in the Environmental club. She has been involved in the survey of local amphibians and wildlife and created and maintained a community garden in Newton. Mr. Chamberlin says of Gina, “She pays attention to nature in a way that I would expect from full-time naturalists, not a high school student!” |