Presentation of Kendra Milazzo by NANCY BRANDT
I am pleased to introduce to you Kendra Storz, the scholarship winner from McCutcheon High School.
There are many words that could be used to describe Kendra. Here are just a few: exciting, energetic, smart, capable, organized, responsible, self-motivated, athletic, musical, artistic, caring, creative, dreamer, performer, community worker. 
Kendra has had many leadership activities in her high school career. Let me highlight them for you:
For High Academic Achievement:
• She is ranked first in her class of 412 students.
• She was awarded Academic Honors in 2012.
• She was awarded Academic Excellence in 2013
• She is listed in the McCutcheon Wall of Fame for 2010-2013.
• She was invited to join the National Honor Society for 2013-2014.
For Athletic Achievement:
• Kendra is currently the captain of the Cross Country Team and has been a varsity runner for 4 years.
• She was awarded the most valuable player as a sophomore runner.
• As a junior runner, she was awarded the mental attitude award.
• As a senior, she earned the Leadership Award and the Academic All-State honor.
Her second sport – Track and Field – also brought awards to Kendra:
• She is captain of the team in her senior year.
• She earned the Mental Attitude Award during the sophomore and junior years.
Other leadership awards for Kendra include:
• Elected by her peers as co-president of her senior class.
• For 2011-2014 she was handpicked by the Athletic Director for membership on the Athletic Council; she serves as secretary of this group her senior year.
• She was selected by the school principal to represent her class on the Junior/Senior Leadership Council.
Additional activities at McCutcheon High School include:
• Participation in two school musical productions.
• Participation in a play about the Holocaust.
• As a freshman, she helped write a book titled: Unsung Heroes in Our Community. This work was published and is now in the school library!
In addition to academic, leadership, and athletic excellence, Kendra has worked 6-16 hours per week for the last one and one-half years at a local movie theatre. It was through this employment that she began dreaming of a career in animation. Being able to observe the emotional expressions on patrons’ faces as they left the theatre has stimulated Kendra to pursue a career in animation. This will allow her to have an impact on the lives of many people!!
To this end, Kendra will continue her education at Ball State University. She dreams of working one day for a large corporation like Pixar.
So… When you all go to the movies these next few years, be sure to stay until the very end and read the list of credits. You may just see the name Kendra Storz on the big screen!!
Lafayette Rotary is very pleased to award Kendra this scholarship. Congratulations, Kendra!
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And last, but certainly not least, it is with pleasure that I (CATHY BARRON) introduce to you today Agustina de la Fuente, from West Lafayette High School. (Agustina, please stand)
Agustina will graduate from West Side with an exceptional GPA – 4.0 out of 4.0 and great SAT scores. She will combine her interest in Chemistry with a pre-med concentration when she enrolls in college in the fall. 
Her choice of college majors reflects keen interests and abilities that Agustina has exhibited throughout her High School Career. Her awards and honors reveal to us a very talented young woman with varied interests. She has excelled in sciences, languages and the arts in school. She is a member of National Honor Society, she’s received an AP, (Advanced Placement that is) Scholar Award, she is a National Hispanic Scholar and she is a National Merit Semi-Finalist.
In the science arena, Agustina has earned a 1st place win in chemistry at the Lafayette Regional Science and Engineering Fair, both in 2011 And in 2013. She was also the overall Blue Ribbon winner in cellular and molecular biology in 2013. At the Siemen’s “We can change the world” Challenge, Agustina was the State’s 1st place winner and placed 2nd in the Nation that year. At the Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair, she was noted for “outstanding Achievement in IN-Vitro Biology.
And now, on to other interests and accolades - Agustina is also a winner in the Debate world., specifically Policy Debate. She has been a finalist and a quarter-finalist in two different years of the Indiana State Debate Tournament and Agustina was a National Qualifier in Policy Debate, in the National Forensics League Hoosier Heartland District Tournament in 2013.
Beyond Science and debate, Agustina excels at languages as well. She was named “student of the year” in Advanced Placement French in 2012 and was Indiana’s 2nd place winner and the Nation’s 5th place winner in the National French Exam that same year! Oooh la la, Agustina! What a year.
It is said that languages and music have a connection and that is shown to be true by Agustina’s accomplishments in music also, during her high school career. Playing the cello in West Lafayette’s Orchestra, she won the orchestra merit award in both 2011 and 2012 and received Gold in both the District and the State Music Contests for small ensemble, for large ensemble and for solo competition as well.
Agustina has taken and received A’s in University level classes … at Purdue, in Chemistry and Math and at Concordia College Language Villages, in French. She has also done research in a Cell Biology Lab at Purdue with Dr. Claudio Aguilar in 2012 and 2013.
With an academic record like this, we wonder how there would be time left to do anything else….but there is more in the life of this well-rounded student.
Agustina loves to dance and has taken lessons for over 12 years, in lyrical jazz, hip-hop jazz, ballet and pointe. She is a member of the Phoenix Fire Invitational Dance Troupe and has been the student director of that group also. Agustina has served as a dance instructor and choreographer at Morton Center from 2012 to the present.
All of these accomplishments point to Agustina’s organizational and leadership abilities. And she has proven herself to be a leader in school clubs as well, as secretary and Vice-President of the French Club, Class representative for Student Council, Co-president of the Gay-Straight Alliance and Treasurer of the ECO Club at West Side.