CentennialHigh
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This event occurred on
March 3, 2017
6:00pm - 9:00pm EST
(UTC -5hrs)
Ellicott City, Maryland
United States

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Centennial High School
4300 Centennial Ln
Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042
United States
Event type:
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Speakers

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Allison Brown

Student
Allison Brown is dedicated to getting young girls involved in STEM careers at a young age. She wants to be an engineer, but she had never considered it until high school. She wants girls to know that STEM is always an option and parents to encourage their daughters to explore any career path.

Duo Hong

CHS LiNK Club President
Duo Hong has been an active supporter of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), a non-profit organization that raises funds for the rescue and resettlement of North Korean defectors, through his involvement in the Centennial LiNK Rescue Team. Having distant relatives who live under the repressive North Korean regime has bolstered his passion to participate in this global movement. He, along with many South Koreans and supporters of LiNK, hopes to live in a future in which the North Korean people are granted rights that every human being should have.

Jenna Baruch

Intern at HopeWorks
Jenna Baruch always knew that she was passionate about community service and social activism, but it wasn't until her internship at HopeWorks of Howard County that she becoming increasingly aware of the violence and injustice occurring around her. She is now working to spread information and start the conversation about rape culture in her community.

John Lee

Amateur Chicken Farmer
John Lee has raised chickens for the past four years. After the first two years of chicken coop occupation, the nuances in the chickens' characteristics and personalities caught his eye. Through firsthand interaction and research, John found that chickens are much more similar to humans than he expected.

Maria Rodriguez

Artist
Maria Rodriguez was born and raised in El Salvador and moved to The United States when she was 15 years old. She believes everything happens for a reason, and that everybody has a story. She will be sharing her own story of resilience. How losing her sister at a young age to gang violence in El Salvador impacted her and her family’s life, the difficulties that come with moving to a foreign country, and how she has learned to cope through all the painful events in her life.

Miguel Fernandez

Student
Miguel Fernandez believes that life should be spent working in a career that you love, and supporting the ambitions of others. Through encouraging individuals to pursue their passion, and manifesting satisfaction in your career, you will live a fulfilling life.

Rohan Laljani

Student
Rohan Laljani will be speaking about the language of politics. He first became interested in the relationship between language and politics during a discussion in English class about George Orwell’s novels 1984 and Animal Farm. These novels kickstarted his interest in how politicians use language to communicate their agendas to the public, and how people respond to political rhetoric. He finds it especially interesting considering the current political climate.

Sidney Holt

Student
Sidney Holt always described himself as shy, even though he feels like no one really thinks that about him. This led to him pseudo-meditating on why he feels this way and realized that it was because society in general is afraid of sincerity and that this attitude has come to define his existence such that he identifies with the antisocial Hamlet and doesn't fully trust anyone. Thus the only solution is to not care, roll with the punches, and have a good time riding the wave to oblivion, which no one seems to be doing.

Siri Neerchal

Intern at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Siri Neerchal fell in love with both mathematics and history at a young age and has spent the rest of her life searching for a way to combine her two passions. She is currently pursuing this intersection as an intern at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where she is investigating mathematical models for state failure. A self-described learning addict, she strongly believes that an interdisciplinary education is necessary to creating innovative solutions for the most pressing problems in the world today.

Organizing team

Sahil
Saini

Ellicott City, MD, United States
Organizer

Corey
O'Brien

Co-organizer