2007
Taiwanese American Community Scholarship Award Recipients
Mr. Allen Yang
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Winston Churchill High School
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Miss Sheena M Austria
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Winston Churchill High School
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Miss Mindy Lin
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Thomas S. Wootton
High School
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Mr. Yujie Yang
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Thomas S. Wootton
High School
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Miss Fannie Jou
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Richard Montgomery High School
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Miss Kelly James
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Oakton High School
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Mr. Yuan Zhou
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Robinson Secondary High School
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Miss Elizabeth Walker
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Westfield High School
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Mr. Jake R Bartlett
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Westfield High School
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Mr. Mikw Tzeng
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Winston Churchill High School
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(In alphabetic order)
Sheena Austria
Sheena Austria is extremely grateful that she was
chosen to receive the Taiwanese American Community Scholarship Award!
Sheena is a seventeen-year-old senior at Winston Churchill
High School. She was
blessed with the opportunities to participate in the National Honor Society
and Science National Honor Society at her school. Outside of school, Sheena
is a member of her high school show choir called Showstoppers, was
a back-up singer and dancer in Blast from the Past, and was a
featured dancer in other school musicals. However, the activities Sheena
values most are her community service activities. Sheena helped coordinate
and lead a summer camp and prom at Summerville Assisted Living, was a
volunteer in the pediatric department at Shady
Grove Adventist
Hospital, and is currently a
pre-school Sunday school teacher at the Philippine International Bible
Church in Olney, Maryland. She will be attending Montgomery College as a Montgomery Scholar in
the fall. Sheena would like to thank her loving parents, friends, and Mrs.
Zimmerman for their unconditional love and support, and the Taiwanese
American Community Scholarship Award Committee for giving her this amazing
award.
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Jake Bartlett
Jake Bartlett of Westfield High School
is a highly accomplished student and has dedicated his time to service in
the community and in the life of his school. He has served as the Class of
2007 President for four years, worked on the school newspaper for four
years, and has been sports editor of the
Watchdog for two years. His journalism career enabled him to become a
staff writer for Gameday Magazine,
a periodical for Northern Virginia high
school sports. Additionally, he has been active in the National, English,
and Spanish Honor Societies.
His community service endeavors include countless
hours for his church as a confirmation youth leader, campaigning for former
Senator George Allen, and holiday work for local charities. Bartlett has been
successful in balancing two jobs, numerous extracurricular activities, and
a rigorous academic load during his high school years. In the fall, Bartlett will attend the University of Virginia
where he plans to major in accounting. Bartlett hopes to start his own company
that will one day provide financial freedom and allow him to remain very involved
in service to others.
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Kelly James
Kelly James is a highly
ambitious young woman who loves to travel, play soccer, and above all else,
loves to help people. She did work with providing food for the homeless and
in second grade; she started a collection for a disaster relief fund that
took place during her second grade year. Her greatest fundraiser was a
product of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade
Center and Pentagon.
On that day, in 2001, Kelly James decided that watching CNN footage of the
planes was not a beneficial use of her time. She set up a bake sale and
donated the proceeds to the American Red Cross to benefit the victims and
their families. Since 2001, Kelly has funded the same bake sale every year,
always donating the proceeds to the American Red Cross.
Kelly hopes to be able to continue to help more
people as she embarks on her college life at George Mason
University this
coming fall. Once there, she hopes to study physical therapy and
Italian.
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Fannie Jou
Fannie Jou is a senior in the
International Baccalaureate Program at Richard Montgomery
High School, where
she is the arts editor of the school newspaper, The Tide, as well as the
school’s renowned literary magazine, Fine Lines. She is a member of the
National Honor Society as well as a founding member of Helping Hands, a
club involved in creating artwork for community causes. Outside of school,
Fannie is the co-captain of a local soccer team she has been a part of for
over 12 years. She has also been involved in lessons and performances for
both piano and ballet for just as long, and has performed as part of the
Silver Star Chinese Dance Company for the past three years. Fannie devotes
her summers to volunteer work, particularly in working behind the scenes
with the Smithsonian Institution in DC at the National Herbarium as well as
the Hirshhorn Museum of Modern Art. She also has done work with the Chinese
Immersion Program at the MCPS Board of Education and is a graduating senior
at the Washington School of Chinese Language and Culture.
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Mindy Lin
Mindy is simultaneously a hard-working, silly,
ambitious, and fun-loving girl. She loves to go shopping, eat great food,
watch movies, and go to the pool with her friends, but when the time comes
to buckle down, she is a focused student, a co-captain of my high school’s
Varsity tennis team, a violist for several orchestras in Maryland, an avid
dancer, and a leader in several community service organizations. As an
officer of Thomas
S. Wootton
High School’s
National Honor Society and Science National Honor Society and a committed
volunteer at tutoring programs in and outside of school, much of her free
time is devoted to helping and teaching others. Last summer, she was a
full-time intern at the National Institutes of Health, a unique and
valuable laboratory experience that she will never forget. She looks
forward to spending this coming summer making memories with friends and
family, and she is especially excited to be headed off to Princeton University
this fall as a college freshman. She said, “Much of my success in this
first chapter of my life must be credited to the loving guidance and wisdom
of my mom, dad, and my older sister, Yoming.”
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Elizabeth Walker
Elizabeth Walker is a senior at Westfield High School. Elizabeth participates
in various church activities including church choir and a yearly mission
trip to Tennessee. She has also been a youth leader for her
church's confirmation for several years.
She has been a varsity member of the Track and Field team for four years
and is currently captain. She is a
member of Math, Science, Spanish and National Honor Societies. Elizabeth
will graduate with Summa Cum Laude honors.
Next year she will be attending the College
of Engineering at Cornell University
in Ithaca, NY.
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Allen Yang
Allen Yang is currently a senior at Winston Churchill
High School in Potomac, Maryland. Aside from learning, his interests
include reading, journalism, music and volleyball. He is Managing Editor of Young D.C., the independent Washington D.C.
metropolitan area newspaper managed by high school students for the local
teenage population. He is also
President of the Math Team, Mock Trial Team, Science National Honors
Society, Mu Alpha Theta, JETS Team and Medical Venturing Crew. He plays volleyball with CCACC and also
plays the piano. If asked about his
favorite academic subject, he will usually say it is math or science
(particularly biology and physics), although he currently plans on going
into economics. He will be attending
Harvard University in the fall.
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Yujie Yang
Yujie was born on September 15, 1988 in the
autonomous city of Chongqing, China.
He is the only child in the family. His parent chose “Yujie” as his name because
they wished him to be “successful.” At the age of 10, he immigrated with
his parents to Greater Washington DC, USA. In Maryland,
he attended Twinbrook Elementary School and Julius West
Middle School.
During his high school career in Wootton, he participated
in various extracurricular activities, including Science Technology and
Research Scholar program. He is also a member of the National Honors
Society, Science National Honors Society, and National Chinese Honors
Society. Additionally, he participated in many community services, such as
tutoring little kids in academics and fundraising for clubs, school, and
helpless, homeless kids in rural place of China.
He became interested in Math and Science. In 10th
Grade, he joined Wootton HS Chemathon Year Two Team and later won the
chemistry competition. He also participated and ranked in numerous
nationwide mathematics competitions, including American Math Contest,
American Invitational Math Exam, and Continental Math League. Recently, he
was the National Semifinalist in 2007 USA Biology Olympiad. Aside from
academics, he was also interested and involved in sports, such as
badminton. One of his hobbies is traveling. He loves traveling because he
can learn new things on different trip to different places.
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Yuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou was born in Shanghai, China. He suffered from asthma from the
pollution, so his family left China
when he was six years old to the United States. They moved around quite a lot between Canada and the U.S.
and they settled five years ago in Fairfax,
Virginia.
His father is a meteorologist and works for
NOAA. They came to the D.C. area
because there are two places in the U.S.
for meteorologists: D.C. in the nation’s capital and Oklahoma in the heart of tornado
alley. He has lived in both places,
and one of the most exciting times of his life was when three tornados were
swirling around his town in Oklahoma
once.
His mother used to work with library science and
she has a degree in computer science.
She’s a stay-at-home mom, and sometimes Yuan likes that because she
can cook every night.
He likes to hang out with friends and loves
food. He jogs to keep in shape and
plays chess as a hobby. He is a
senior at Robinson Secondary School and will go to the University of Virginia this coming fall.
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Mike Tzeng
As a senior at Winston Churchill high school,
Mike has devoted much of his time toward helping his friends and his
community. In school, he is the founder and captain of the Drumline, which
raises school spirit and performs at school-sponsored events. He is also
the president of the Civitans community service club, which is committed
toward helping the less fortunate people in the world. In addition to
school clubs, he is also a member of the National, Tri-M, Science, and
English honor societies, the Math, Science and Technology academy, and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. Mike
is also a talented percussionist, working his way up to the principal chair
in the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra, all-county and all-state band, and
in school, as well as playing percussion for the school productions “West
Side Story” and “Blast.” Mike played varsity volleyball for Churchill for
two years, and loves to play ping pong and tennis in his free time.
He would like to thank his mom, dad, his sister
Julia, and all of his friends for helping him all the way through high
school. He is very excited to be heading off to the University of Pennsylvania
in the fall.
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