Tag: best and brightest
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Best and Brightest application deadline extended
The application deadline for The Gazette’s Best and Brightest scholarship program is extended through Wednesday. The Best and Brightest program recognizes 20 graduating seniors who have excelled academically and made contributions to their schools and community. They are smart, self-motivated and are the standout Class of 2024 graduates in the Pikes Peak region. The Best and…
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Best and Brightest application deadline extended
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The application deadline for The Gazette’s Best and Brightest scholarship program is extended through Wednesday. The Best and Brightest program recognizes 20 graduating seniors who have excelled academically and made contributions to their schools and community.…
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Best and Brightest: Life-threatening battle inspires success
Myles McClarity had just completed his best football season when he got the news no one wants to get: a cancer diagnosis. Returning from a football game in Montrose, McClarity had a nonstop nosebleed, felt dizzy, couldn’t stop throwing up, and passed out. Doctors diagnosed him in December 2021 with acute lymphoblastic T-cell leukemia, an…
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Best and Brightest: Planning to pursue political issues
Katarina Eid battled a poor body image and self-harm for six years, plucking out leg hairs, picking at her blemishes, skipping meals, and trying to force herself to throw up before she turned to dance to feel better about her self-image. Though Eid had been dancing since she was nine, she started dancing for fun…
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Best and Brightest: Chronic illness drives scholar toward medical career
After months of dealing with constant, debilitating pain, on March 25, 2022, Joseph Brock was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. The diagnosis came in the middle of a particularly difficult academic year for the Air Academy High School student. In June 2022, Brock underwent a major surgery due to complications with Crohn’s and at the time…
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Best and Brightest: Motivated scholar has international finance plans
Maria Quintero Riano had to grow up fast when at age 6 her father was deployed to Afghanistan and she became her mother’s link to the English-speaking world in Texas, motivating the young girl to develop and passion for learning. The family of four had immigrated from Columbia two years earlier, later her father joined…
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Best and Brightest: Overcoming challenges fosters a will to achieve
Resiliency isn’t Eve Maramba’s middle name, but it could be based on how she’s emerged from one challenge after another throughout most of her life. There’s her role as a military kid where the only consistency was relocating from one place to another, or being diagnosed with Alopecia, which causes hair loss, just before her…
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Best and brightest: Fascination with AI defines student’s goals
Steven Zhou got his first exposure to artificial intelligence at the cinema, watching the 2015 science-fiction drama “Chappie” about how gangsters steal a law enforcement robot and turn it into a murderous criminal device. Zhou, then a fifth grader, sobbed during the entire gruesome film and asked his father, University of Colorado Colorado Springs computer…
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Best and Brightest: A desire to impact, influence and empower
When she first started school, Dana Ko was labeled for two reasons: She spoke no English and was identified as gifted and talented. Now, she sees the designations, formally known as “twice-exceptional,” have contributed to who she is today. She found her voice and uses it to advocate for others. She is a student liaison…
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Best and Brightest: Combining two passions into a career
Kainna Gray wants to combine two of her passions as she moves to college and later into a career — law and sign language — to become a lawyer and a legal interpreter for non-hearing clients. Gray was inspired as a teen to learn American Sign Language while becoming a fan of deaf actor Marlee Matlin after…