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Big Walnut’s Stayton personifies service above self

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Debat­ing var­i­ous career paths, Jes­sica Stay­ton deter­mined that all her pref­er­ences were either related to sci­ence or peo­ple. “I really enjoy peo­ple. Talk­ing things over, help­ing to deal with emo­tions,” the Big Wal­nut senior said of her deci­sion to major in psy­chol­ogy. And while she has not ruled out the pos­si­bil­ity of research, she thinks she would pre­fer to work directly with people.

Olentangy Liberty’s Gu is determined to excel

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Amanda Gu is not your typ­i­cal high school senior. Unlike most, she finds dis­eased organs inter­est­ing. But then not every senior is con­tem­plat­ing a career in med­i­cine. Amanda, an Olen­tangy Lib­erty stu­dent, devel­oped her inter­est in becom­ing a doc­tor the sum­mer before her sopho­more year when she attended an anatomy and phys­i­ol­ogy camp at Wright State Uni­ver­sity. It was then that she had her first taste of med­i­cine and was able to work on two human cadavers.

Delaware Christian’s Zinn focuses on future

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Senior year is going by quick with still lots to do for Delaware Chris­t­ian School’s Ryan Zinn. “It’s going fast,” Ryan said, adding that he looks for­ward to prom and the annual senior trip. As class trea­surer, he will be respon­si­ble for col­lect­ing funds from class­mates for the trip.

For Hayes’ Gibbs, service is a lifestyle

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Com­mu­nity ser­vice is a big part of Delaware Hayes’ Miriam Gibbs’ life. It all began with the Girl Scouts, or Girl Guides as they are called in Canada where Mariam hails from. She came to the United States when she was 7. “I’m try­ing to make com­mu­nity ser­vice a life style,” she said. That goal is reflected in Miriam’s busy sched­ule. She reg­u­larly works at the Free Store, help­ing with Peo­ple In Need (PIN) activ­i­ties, and is also work­ing to start a youth group for men­tally ill teens at Safe Har­bor Delaware.

BV’s Penny will focus on helping others

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Jaclyn Penny sees her­self some­day as a psy­chol­o­gist at a reha­bil­i­ta­tion cen­ter or as a school psy­chol­o­gist — maybe even at Buck­eye Val­ley. But for now senior year is in full swing, and as Jaclyn said it’s excit­ing, but “it goes by fast. Def­i­nitely real­ity set­ting in.”

BW’s Jones goes above and beyond

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Big Walnut’s Con­ner Jones has good advice for oth­ers. “It’s good to be involved with every­thing. You meet new peo­ple, make new friends. It opens a lot of doors,” he said. The senior should know, he has been involved in school activ­i­ties and in lead­er­ship roles since the fifth grade when he first served on stu­dent council.

Olentangy’s Kosmyna is going places

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Olen­tangy High School senior Marta Kos­myna is con­sid­er­ing the for­eign ser­vice for a career. “I’m hop­ing to be a for­eign ser­vice offi­cer, maybe some­day a diplo­mat,” Marta said, adding it does not mat­ter which coun­try. Com­ing to the United States when she was 6, Marta speaks both Eng­lish and Ukrain­ian flu­ently. She has also had five years of French and can both speak and read Russ­ian. “Lan­guages come pretty easily.”

DACC’s Kelly takes the road less traveled

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Senior Ali Kelly has switched gears from being in music and the arts ear­lier in her high school career to a totally dif­fer­ent path — she is now in the weld­ing pro­gram at the Delaware Area Career Cen­ter. And her future promises to take yet another direc­tion; Ali has decided after grad­u­a­tion to attend the Motor­cy­cle Mechan­ics Insti­tute, part of Uni­ver­sal Tech­ni­cal Insti­tute, in Phoenix. Orig­i­nally, she was inter­ested in marine mechan­ics (“I’ve always liked the sea.”), then engi­neer­ing, fol­lowed by art school.

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