Ocean Park Scholarship Winner: Coren Huff

First of all thank you to this year’s volunteers on the Scholarship Committee: Natalie McIntyre, Rachael Beutler, and Blair Valdivieso from committee chair Betty Dierstein. She says, “We had 20  applications and it takes time to read and evaluate each packet so I appreciate the time they spent in helping make this selection. This year’s recipient is Coren Huff who is graduating from the Global Studies and World Language Academy at Tallwood High School. She will be attending Virginia Tech in the fall majoring in International Relations and Spanish with a minor in Ecological Cities. She has a 4.233 grade pt average and volunteered over 400 hours with her church and other groups. She also works a part-time job, is a member of the Global Studies Honor Society, participated in the US Youth Ambassador Study Abroad Program, the Junior World Affairs Council at Tallwood, was  a member of the National Spanish Honor Society-just to name a few of her activities. Some of the awards she has received: AP Scholar of Distinction, Future World Language Educator Award, Virginia Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish and English and the Global World Studies Butterfly Effect Award.  In her essay, Coren mentions the Butterfly Effect ” the idea that small, seemingly trivial events may ultimately result in something with much larger consequences.“- a fitting characterization of the effect achieved by volunteer service.”
Betty attended the Tallwood Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, June 10 to present the scholarship award to Coren. She reports that Coren is a personable, polite and very grateful student!” Congratulations to Coren!