Delaware Hayes’ Moore beginning a new chapter

Andie Moore

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LIZ ROBERTSON

Hayes High School senior Andie Moore will be head­ing south to Ohio Uni­ver­sity this fall to begin study­ing infor­ma­tional graph­ics and page design. She would like even­tu­ally to work for a non­profit orga­ni­za­tion, poten­tially in an area that focuses on the environment.

“I’ve always loved this area,” she said, “When I was lit­tle, I was an activist for the com­mu­nity. And I would like to pur­sue this with my talents.”

Andie had con­sid­ered becom­ing a veterinarian.

“Junior year, I real­ized it was not for me,” she said. As some­one who enjoys the cre­ative process, Andie took a begin­ning art class and found her real passion.

“So my mom and I looked at careers and it snowballed.”

Andie has had two years expe­ri­ence now doing design work on the school yearbook.

Liv­ing in Delaware her entire life, she would like to travel the world work­ing for dif­fer­ent organizations.

“It’s my dream. Just to help and inform peo­ple. Just as long as I’m cre­at­ing,” she said.

Social stud­ies teacher Jor­dan Black­burn said, “Andie Moore is the type of kid you would want your own chil­dren to emu­late. She is rou­tinely a leader who demon­strates com­pas­sion, and she con­sis­tently mod­els char­ac­ter at all times. She also has a great heart, is very bright and works extremely hard. Andie is a winner!”

Ariel Upp­strom, Eng­lish teacher at Hayes, also spoke glow­ingly of Andie.

“There are so many things to say about Andie! In class, I can depend on her to come pre­pared to work and lead in dis­cus­sions. Her eager­ness to share what she knows and pro­pose new ideas is clearly evi­dent. I par­tic­u­larly enjoy when she has sud­denly made a note­wor­thy con­nec­tion with the ideas dis­cussed in class and her hand shoots up to share her idea that gets the class talk­ing on a new level. How­ever, what is most endear­ing about Andie isn’t her aca­d­e­mic prowess, but her kind and friendly nature. As one of the advis­ers to the National Honor Soci­ety, I get to work with Andie through­out the year with dif­fer­ent vol­un­teer­ing events. She is always patient and ready to do even some of the least fun tasks if asked of her. On two occa­sions, Andie worked with me on tasks to clean the school and spruce up the court­yard. It was so much fun to talk with her and work together. She kept up with me the whole time and we kept each other enter­tained. I also know that she is happy to work with new peo­ple and lit­tle kids and makes every­one feel wel­come and included. These are just some of the many things I enjoy about Andie and believe she deserves much praise for being a won­der­ful young woman.”

Andie does do a lot of vol­un­teer­ing both through the NHS and on her own. She helps with recy­cling at the school, Shop with the Sher­iff, vol­un­teer­ing in a kinder­garten class­room and at the Com­mon Ground Free Store. She has also been in the Delaware Youth Lead­er­ship Program.

Besides her inter­ests and pas­sion in her future career, Andie loves play­ing volleyball.

“I could play all day, every day,” she said.

Begin­ning as a ball girl when her mother coached, Andie has played both at school and on club teams since the eighth grade. She has been cap­tain of the team dur­ing both her junior and senior year and antic­i­pates con­tin­u­ing with intra­mural vol­ley­ball in college.

She also plays on the school’s bas­ket­ball team, begin­ning the sport in her fresh­man year. While Andie said she is not as good at bas­ket­ball, she loves the team.

“Our pro­gram is amaz­ing,” she said, adding that it was hard play­ing the last games this year.

“It’s rough,” she said. “Every­one is embrac­ing you, both fig­u­ra­tively and lit­er­ally. They’ll always be in my heart.”

Andie plans to help with vol­ley­ball this sum­mer as well.

“Just to keep it in my life,” she said.

She will also be babysit­ting this sum­mer, some­thing she has done since she was 10, and work­ing for a sec­ond sea­son at the zoo’s cof­fee shop.

“It’s such a good envi­ron­ment,” she said.

Being a senior, she is also aware there are many things she is doing for the final time.

With about 37 days of high school left, Andie said what hits her the most, is that every­one is choos­ing col­leges and she may never again see peo­ple that she now sees on a daily basis in the halls.

“But I’m ready to start a new chap­ter in my life,” she said.

Andie said she will see where col­lege takes her in the future. “It’s excit­ing,” she said of the prospects.

Andie’s advice to those com­ing up in high school is, “Stay true to who you are. Find out who you are and be true to yourself.”

You will deal with drama in high school, she said, “If you find out who you are and stay true to your­self, you will suc­ceed. Stay with peo­ple who are close to you and that you trust”

For now, Andie is look­ing for­ward to the end of her high school days with close friends.

“Just being with them, embrac­ing it all. I’m try­ing to be as happy as I can with­out any stress,” she laughed. “I still need to be grounded and embrace it.”

Andie is the daugh­ter of Aimee Moore of Delaware.

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