STAR OF BROOKLYN: Samantha Wong
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Samantha Wong is the high school senior member of the Community Education Council in School District 20, which she enjoys because it is an opportunity to attend meetings with prominent adults in the community and learn how major issues are handled in the real world.
Wong uses the information and skills she gets from this involvement in her school organizations, too. As president of the Key Club, Senior Council vice president, and an active member of the School Leadership Team as well as United Network of Student Leaders, she has a lot of responsibility in her school and feels that her work with the CEC helps her manage it all.
She was chosen for her position on the CEC after the group helped her school, Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School, stay open last year when it was facing the possibility of being shut down.