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Class of 2012 Profile: What class members have done

Adventure

The Class of 2012 includes someone who:

  • Used a gap year to:

    • teach English at a primary school in Costa Rica
    • volunteer at a children’s hospital in Romania
    • work at a national park in Chile
  • Helped excavate Byzantine ruins at Yavneh Yam in Israel.
  • Watched the sun come up from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
  • Studied or performed community service in the following countries:

    • Argentina
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Bolivia
    • Botswana
    • Brazil
    • Chile
    • China
    • Costa Rica
    • Czech Republic
    • Dominican Republic
    • Ecuador
    • Egypt
    • Ethiopia
    • Fiji
    • France
    • Germany
    • Ghana
    • Greece
    • Guadalupe
    • Guatemala
    • Honduras
    • Hungary
    • India
    • Israel
    • Italy
    • Japan
    • Kenya
    • Korea
    • Madagascar
    • Malawi
    • Malaysia
    • Mexico
    • the Netherlands
    • Nicaragua
    • Panama
    • Peru
    • the Phillipines
    • Romania
    • Russia
    • South Africa
    • Spain
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Tanzania
    • Thailand
    • the United Arab Emirates
    • the United Kingdom
    • Vietnam

Service

The Class of 2012 includes 15 Eagle Scouts seven Girl Scout Gold or Silver Award recipients, and three 4-H Club Leaders.

In addition, someone in the class performed as Dandy the Clown in a volunteer clown troupe for organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and another worked in Tanzania with orphans who had lost their parents to AIDS.

Research

While in high school, members of the class conducted several impressive research projects. Someone has:

  • Constructed a wind surveying robot as part of a team working with Lego Robotics to solve alternative-energy-related tasks.
  • Researched the demise of the car industry in the United Kingdom and its effect on the Coventry region.
  • Observed the behavior of caged lemurs at Duke University and that of free-roaming lemurs in Myakka City Lemur Reserve in order to provide better and more natural surroundings for the caged animals and aid their conservation in the wild.

Languages

Someone in the class speaks:

  • Arabic
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Chinese
  • Czech
  • Dagari
  • French
  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • Hmong
  • Hungarian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • More
  • Nepali
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Spanish
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese
  • Wolof

Out-of-the-Ordinary

In this class, you could meet someone who:

  • Built an 11-foot-long wooden sailboat to fulfill a graduation requirement of doing a year-long independent project.
  • Attended a professional soccer school for a year.
  • Is an officer in a Dance Dance Revolution club.
  • Paddles a Hawaiian outrigger canoe on the ocean as part of a six-person crew.
  • Is an Irish step dancer and spends Friday nights contra dancing to fiddle music.
  • Embarks every August on a wolf-tracking expedition in the Sawtooth Mountains of southern Idaho.
  • Piloted a Cessna 152 and has logged more than 100 hours in the air.