Class of 2017
The Class of 2017. What an accomplished, vibrant, and intriguing group of students!
Where are you from?
You represent 46 states and the District of Columbia, as well as 40 countries of citizenship.
A sampling of your talents, interests, and passions:
Each of you has something special to contribute to the Wellesley community. Check out some of the fascinating and diverse activities you are engaged in and intriguing interests you are pursuing. Picture yourselves four years from now...and what new opportunities and passions you will have explored at Wellesley!
Making a difference at home, school, and in the community:
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| Raising chickens in her backyard (and loving astrophysics) |
| Starting a nonpartisan political group to get students active across party lines |
| Committing to promoting women's rights, from voting rights to health care |
| Volunteering for the Salvation Army |
| Using volunteer work to combine service with music—playing music at an Alzheimer's clinic |
| Founding girls' IT club and app club |
| Attending a youth summit on food security in Des Moines |
| Helping to implement an IB certificate program at her high school |
| Serving as president of her school's Human Rights Coalition organization |
| Co-founding an organization that raises money to promote universal education for kids |
| Interning at a LGBT Resource Center |
| Leading student council committee through protests and speeches at Board of Education so students from all socio-economic backgrounds can continue to attend the district's magnet high school |
| Donating over $40k worth of goods to homeless shelters by using extreme couponing |
| Working with families at Ronald McDonald House |
| Reading to children at the local library |
| Volunteering as an accordionist at a nursing home |
| Receiving a YMCA Peace Medallion for co-founding an eco-friendly and charitable design company |
| Interning at the Bronx Zoo as part of the Teen Animal Care Program |
| Volunteering with an NGO to prevent domestic violence in slum communities |
Following one's muse in the arts and media:
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| Serving as on-air correspondent for a nationally syndicated Eco TV show |
| Hosting a French radio show on a local US station |
| Writing and directing a one-act play |
| Winning the Poetry Out Loud state championship, heading to nationals |
| Becoming a classics devotee |
| Dancing on a local university's Bollywood dance team |
| Self-studying languages: Romanian and Nahuatl (Aztec language) |
| Blogging for an environmental group |
| Producing the documentary: "Homegrown Arkansas: Know your Farmer" |
| Founding the "30 Seconds Of Change" Movement, a student-led initiative to champion innovative ideas through social media and film |
| Teaching herself guitar |
| Publishing her novel through one of the largest publishing companies in China |
| Having her own YouTube channel about makeup application |
| Contributing research to the Cambridge World Oral Literature (WOLP) project |
| Founding her school's creative writing club |
| Creating, assembling, and maintaining costumes as a wardrobe assistant for the NY International Fringe Festival |
| Waitressing at an artisan cafe |
| Founding a Fashion Club that raises money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation |
| Winning a gold medal in a national writing competition in the science fiction category |
| Contributing writing to an online fashion and pop culture magazine |
| Playing bass clarinet in an all-state band |
| Starring in a feature film and being part of the Screen Actors Guild |
| Teaching classical guitar to beginners |
| Loving Pinterest! |
Serving in leadership positions in the community:
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| Many Class of 2017 students were involved with the Girl Scouts: Being elected as regional representative to Girl Scouts National Convention and representing 100,000 Girl Scouts; serving on Girl Scouts CEO Advisory Committee; receiving Girl Scouts Gold Awards; being selected as a student mentor to the Girl Scouts Board of Directors |
| Working with the NAACP as a result of her role in school leadership |
| Speaking before the National Security Agency (NSA) Director as student ambassador for the World Affairs Council in DC |
| Chairing Honor Council |
| Working on a program to fight hunger |
| Leading Quiz Bowl team as captain |
| Serving as Girls Nation President |
| Serving as JROTC battalion commander and receiving a Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award |
| Winning the 2013 Distinguished Young Woman of California |
| Developing and running YouthPolitik and CitizenU programs as Program Coordinator for the City of Vancouver |
| Serving as Director General of the Model UN club at her school |
Engaging in the wider world:
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| Serving as US State Department Youth Environment Ambassador to Norway |
| Spending a month in Ghana as an intern at a radio station, creating a French-speaking show |
| Promoting US/Muslim relations through a State Department scholarship |
| Founding and serving as CEO of a non-profit organization that provides developmental aid to underprivileged communities in Ningxia, China and Los Angeles, CA |
| Co-authoring a publication to raise young girls’ awareness of career opportunities in Southeast Asia |
| Helping create UN-sponsored mobile libraries in Darfuri refugee camps in Eastern Chad |
| Interning at the Forbidden City Museum (Beijing) |
| Starting an audio book program in Thailand at the National Library to help the blind |
| Providing music therapy to disabled children in India; collecting data on her work to analyze its impact |
| Participating in the International Moot Court at The Hague |
| Advocating for health care for Latin American women (including field work in Mexico and Peru) through volunteer work with Pro Mujer |
| Founding India's first student-run creative writing website |
| Teaching at a school for North Korean refugees |
Deriving inspiration from research, science, and education:
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| Being named Intel Science Talent Search Competition National Finalist |
| Installing solar panels on her school's athletic center as part of her senior project |
| Researching the effects of MTOR X-49 gene mutations on thyroid tumorigenesis |
| Researching a campylobacter jejuni vaccine |
| Researching Japanese sediment |
| Co-authoring a paper on anticancer properties of garlic |
| Working on a space-based solar power system |
| Spending a semester at an environmental stewardship school focused on organic gardening, sustainability, and peace |
| Inventing dissolvable sugar packets, saving tons of paper from landfills |
| Studying the sociology of naming trends |
| Researching origins of big cats in captivity through mitochondrial DNA and nuclear microsatellites analysis |
| Conducting neuroscience research: how auditory brain regions of female mice respond when they have been exposed to pups |
| Being named an NASA High School Aerospace Scholar |
Enjoying satisfaction from sports, recreation, and the pursuit of new interests:
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| Playing on her state's under-19 girl's ice hockey team |
| Learning Tae Kwan Do |
| Earning SCUBA certification |
| Becoming a rugby player and fan |
| Playing soccer for school and club teams |
| Mastering welding techniques |
| Playing golf and serving as varsity captain |
| Being junior chess champion of Thailand |
| Running in charity road races |
| Learning the art of the flying trapeze |
| Studying the art of taxidermy |
| Becoming an Ultimate Frisbee devotee |
| Qualifying for the triathlon world championships in her age group |
| Developing a chess board for blind children |
| Serving as captain of an interscholastic polo team |
| Loving archery |
| Performing acrobatics on horseback |
| Alabama | Delaware | Iowa | Michigan | New York | Rhode Island | Washington |
| Alaska | Florida | Kansas | Minnesota | North Carolina | South Carolina | West Virginia |
| Arizona | Georgia | Kentucky | Missouri | North Dakota | Tennessee | Wisconsin |
| Arkansas | Hawaii | Louisiana | Nevada | Ohio | Texas | Wyoming |
| California | Idaho | Maine | New Hampshire | Oklahoma | Utah | |
| Colorado | Illinois | Maryland | New Jersey | Oregon | Vermont | +District of Columbia |
| Connecticut | Indiana | Massachusetts | New Mexico | Pennsylvania | Virginia |
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| Austria | Ethiopia | Hungary | Kazakhstan | Morocco | Serbia | Turkey | ||
| Belgium | France | India | Kenya | Norway | Singapore | United Kingdom | ||
| Botswana | Germany | Indonesia | Lebanon | Pakistan | South Africa | United States | ||
| Bulgaria | Ghana | Ireland | Liberia | Philippines | Taiwan | Vietnam | ||
| Canada | Greece | Italy | Lithuania | Republic of Korea | Tanzania | |||
| China | Hong Kong | Japan | Mauritius | Romania | Thailand | |||
