Theme: Reach

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205 Overbrook Road
Mountain Brook, Alabama, 35213
United States

Amanda Jones

Student Speaker

Amanda Jones is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. Her interests include running and spending time with her family and friends. Amanda’s talk is about how technology is blurring the line between our school/work and home lives.

Amy Beth Hudson

Student Speaker

Amy Beth Hudson is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She enjoys spending time with her family, including her four rescue dogs, and running track and cross-country with her team. She is an avid saver of turtles who has wandered into traffic many times to do so. She loves to learn and can usually be found with her nose in a book or her eyes to the stars.

Ann Catherine Stephens

Student Speaker

Ann Catherine is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High who enjoys choir, dance, and piano.

Bay Matthews

Student Speaker

Bay Matthews is an eighth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She enjoys writing, making short films, and playing music. She loves watching movies and someday hopes to make a few of her own.

Bickley Bowron

Student Speaker

Bickley Bowron is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She loves to watch movies, hang out with friends, and play lacrosse.

Brynn Hannon

Student Speaker

Brynn Hannon is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She enjoys running, reading, playing in the marching band, and hanging out with her friends.

Caroline Allen

Student Speaker

Caroline Allen is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She enjoys music, hanging out with friends, and focusing on the bright side of things.

Claire Lauterbach

Student Speaker

Claire Lauterbach is an eighth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She loves to play piano, listen to music, and write. She is a member of the Mountain Brook debate team, and the Mountain Brook track team, meaning she can argue for long periods of time without getting winded.

Eleanor Elkus

Student Speaker

Eleanor Elkus is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High and a member of the MBJH TED-Ed Club. Her interests include playing lacrosse, drawing, reading books, and spending time with her family and friends.

Emily King

Student Speaker

Emily King is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She loves listening to Broadway music and hanging out with her friends. Ever since a few summers ago when she went to an improv summer camp, she has also been very interested in the art of comedic improv.

Hunter Anderson

Student Speaker

Hunter Anderson is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She is a part-time cowgirl who enjoys running track and hanging out with her friends. Additionally, she is on her school’s math team and likes maintaining a challenging academic schedule.

Ivy Cobbs

Student Speaker

Ivy Cobbs is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She loves going to camp, hanging out with family and friends, participating in math competitions, and running with the cross country/ track team.

Jane Grey Battle

Student Speaker

Jane Grey Battle is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She enjoys trying new foods, traveling to new places, and on Mondays and Wednesdays, walking her dog, Rocket. She is a part of the MBJH Debate Team, meaning she thinks she can argue her way out of almost anything.

Kate Barlow

Student Speaker

Kate Barlow is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She enjoys working at Aaron Staff, running cross country, and crafting in her free time.

Meg Dobbins

Student Speaker

Meg Dobbins is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She loves painting, singing, playing lacrosse, and spending time with her friends and family.

Olivia Dayhuff

Student Speaker

Olivia Dayhuff is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She enjoys being with her family and friends.

Reagan Downey

Student Speaker

Reagan Downey is a ninth-grade student at Mountain Brook Junior High. She loves to read, write, and dance.

Robbie Gibbons

Speaker

Robbie Gibbons starred on the ABC reality show Castaways which aired this fall of 2018. Since then, he has lost over 175 pounds along his journey.