2010 Legacy Winners
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Michael D. Burks Jr.
For Michael Burks the classroom is a laboratory for examining institutions and ideas that permeate and shape society, like race, socioeconomic class, the family, social justice, and education. But it’s volunteerism that enables him to delve more deeply into the dynamics of social justice and community involvement with people from… More...
Kurt Y. Qing
Kurt Qing’s early life prepared him for adaptation and problem solving. He was born in a small town in Hunan, China. When he was still quite young, his father moved to the US, in 1998, Kurt and his mother followed, and the family reunited in Indianapolis. American life was a… More...
Sarai Reed
Sarai Reed attributes her well-roundedness to experiencing the best of both urban and suburban lifestyles as she shuttled between her two families in northwest Washington, DC, and Columbia, Maryland. Sarai attended first through eighth grade in Howard county public schools. Active in school choir, art shows and drama club, she… More...
Juan F. Ruiz
Virtuoso musicianship and a broad musical appetite combine to great advantage in this year’s legacy winner from the Longy School of Music. Composer and clarinetist Juan Ruiz began his musical studies when he was 11, studying Latin American percussion in his hometown of Caldas Antioquia, Colombia. At 14, he began… More...
Chi Zheng
Chi Zeng, this year’s Legacy winner from National History Day, has a deep interest in both Chinese and American history. He was born in Beijing, China and raised in St. Louis, MO, where he is an active member of his community. Chi has served as president of his Clayton High… More...
Alice Zhao
Growing up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Alice Zhao’s foremost passion has been engineering. Throughout her life, she has enjoyed tinkering with things to see what they do and how they do it. As early as the second grade, Alice entered the “Invent America” competition, which required her to invent an entirely…More...