As a 4-year member of CSF, I have learned valuable skills and characteristics. Community involvement has always been a top priority for me, and becoming the Vice President of Community Service highlighted this. I became a junior volunteer at Kaiser Permanente, where I spent a year giving back to my community. Along with community service, I am also extremely passionate about playing tennis and spending time with family.

Shreya was nominated for this prestigious award by Chapter 948 Adviser Rosalind Kanter. Gina Aguilar is Principal at Esperanza High School in the Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School.

Regular participation for multiple compassionate community organizations related to the inner city homeless problem is something which I always truly look forward to.  Additionally, my interest and fondness for animals has led me to volunteer numerous hours at my local county animal care shelter.  My college plan includes earning academic degrees in biology and nursing since my ultimate aspiration is to pursue a career in the medical field.

Janelle was nominated for this prestigious award by Chapter 842 Adviser Albert Landa. John Anson is Principal at Paraclete High School in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

As an aspiring social technology entrepreneur, Erica is involved in activities such as student government and building nanosatellites at her high school. Through her exploration of technology, she found her other passion: to eliminate the gender inequality in the STEM world by founding Bytes of Code to provide STEM workshops such as HTML, CSS, circuitry, and Arduino to her local community. Realizing that there are many communities who are also not able to offer STEM opportunities to girls, Erica created a multilingual online curriculum and established over 20+ global ambassadors across the United States and in Mexico, Liberia, India, and Saudi Arabia to carry out similar workshops, impacting over 75,000 girls.

Through her efforts, Erica has been honored as a Coca-Cola Scholar and Three Dot Dash Global Teen Alternate Leader. In college, she hopes to pursue computer science while also minoring in entrepreneurship and plans to use her education to solve complex social problems through technological innovation.

Erica was nominated for this prestigious award by Chapter 12330 Adviser Cathleen Zeleski. Leslie Roach is Principal at Northwood High School in the Irvine Unified School District.

My name is Rikki Gonzalez, I am a senior at Redwood High School. I am currently serving as the 2019-2020 president of Redwood’s CSF club. CSF has allowed me to be a part of fostering a culture of academic excellence as well as community involvement. As far back as I can remember, the medical field has always been intriguing to me because of my inclination to help others combined with my love for science. Given this passion, my career goal is to be an anesthesiologist. I am honored to have received this scholarship, thank you to the committee for
selecting me.

Rikki was nominated for this prestigious award by Chapter 512 Adviser Georgette Cheatwood. Matt Shin is Principal at Redwood High School in the Visalia Unified School District.

I am the daughter of Frank and Diane Fernandes. I grew up in agriculture and have a passion for the industry. Throughout my high school career I have been involved in clubs such as CSF, SOPAS, and FFA. They have all prepared me in my leadership, public speaking, and communication skills for my future career as an agriculture teacher. Through these programs I have also been able to volunteer for community service projects give back to my amazing community. Outside of school I’m involved in my church’s youth program, saYes, and I am currently California’s District 9 Alternate Dairy Princess. I have a huge passion for animals, plants, and working with others especially children which is why I hope to use my talents and experience to teach future generations about the importance of the agriculture industry.

Madelyn was nominated for this prestigious award by Chapter 1349 Adviser Laurie Jones. Michele Borges is Principal at Mission Oak High School in the Tulare Union High School District.

Catherine’s passion for helping others and giving back has made her pursue Human Biology at university in the fall.

Catherine Entenman is a senior at Porterville High School. She loves learning, reading, sports, playing her instrument, traveling, painting, doing community service, and spending time with her friends and family. When not involved in giving back to the community through raising awareness for numerous diseases or putting together bags for the homeless, Catherine works diligently to achieve her dreams of one day of having a doctoral degree in dental medicine. She plans to pursue human biology at UC San Diego in the fall.

Catherine was nominated for this prestigious award by Chapter 96 Adviser Michelle Patrick. Jose Valdez is Principal at Porterville High School in the Porterville Unified High School District.