HHS SENIOR MARINA SIEGEL EARNS PRESTIGIOUS GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARD ... Marina Siegel’s interest in history spurred a project that earned the Huntington High School senior the prestigious Girl Scout Gold Award. It’s an accomplishment that places the teenager at the pinnacle of the 102 year old Girl Scout organization. Her project goal was to document all of the historical blue and yellow signs around Huntington and create a website, including a description of esch sign, its location and a picture of the site. It amounted to a years work. She was committed to helping people appreciate the historical significance of the locations or how they correlate with the history of Huntington. Marina documented over 100 signs, evening finding six new ones that weren’t on the original list she had been given. She discovered that over 20 signs were missing and wrote to the town to have them replaced. Marina has been a student in the Huntington School District since her first day of kindergarten at Flower Hill School. Years later, her senior schedule includes Introduction to Photography, Pre-Calculus, Advanced Placement Literature, AP Italian, Physics, AP Government, Economics and Senior Band. She is involved in many clubs and honor societies at Huntington High School, including Key Club, Habitat for Humanity, Gay-Straight Alliance, National Honor Society, English Honor Society, Social Studies Honor Society, Art Honor Society, Italian Honor Society, Science Honor Society and Tri-M Honor Society. She is the co- leader of the Blue Devil marching band’s pit section. Ms. Siegel also plays alto sax in the high school jazz band and wind ensemble. She has rowed on the Blue Devil varsity crew and is certified in CPR and “responding to emergencies” The senior is interested in studying engineering in college. She plans to apply to University of Virginia, Villanova University, NYU, University of Richmond, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Reed College and Fordham University. Visit the website at huntingtonsigns to Marinas finished project. Read more at hufsd.edu/news/stories/2014/october/23a.html
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:23:01 +0000
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