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The Challenge: Hebrew Academy team profile

by MSG Varsity on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:47 PM  / Updated Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM

The Challenge: Hebrew Academy team profile

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Hebrew Academy of Nassau County
 
 
Advisor: Karen Sheff
Subjects: Director of College Guidance
Years teaching: 16
What clubs or sports do you moderate or coach? College Bowl, National Honor Society  
 
 
Student Profiles
 
Name: Michael Rubin
Hobbies/interests: Tennis, movies
Activities: Student Senate, Debate Team, College Bowl, Ball person at US Open
Honors/Awards: Honor Roll
College Choice/Applying to: CUNY, SUNY  
Favorite quote: "The trouble with life is there is no background music."
Role model: Larry David, Stephen Colbert, Roger Federer
 
 
Name: Marissa Young
Hobbies/interests: Figure Skating, running, reading
Activities: Student Senate, School newspaper, Softball, College Bowl, Model UN
Honors/Awards: National Honor Society, Honor Roll, National Merit Semi-finalist  
Career goals: 1st woman president
Favorite quote: "to be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human being can ever fight - and never stop fighting."  
 
 
Name: Ari Himber
Hobbies/interests: activism, health, media
Activities: Debate, College Bowl, Mathletes, Drama Society
Honors/Awards: National Honor Society Commended Student
College Choice/Applying to: UPenn, Columbia, NYU, Wash U, USC, U of Chicago, Baruch
Career goals: Advertising/Law
Favorite quote: "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." - Voltaire
Role model: Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Truman Capote
 
 
Name: Kayla Shelly
Hobbies/interests: Cooking/Baking, Reading, Spending time with my friends
Activities: Softball, College Bowl, Israel Action, MSG Varsity, Jewish Poor, Managing Editor of the yearbook
Honors/Awards: National Honor Society, Honor Roll
College Choice/Applying to: CUNY Queens College
Career goals: Psychologist  
 
 
Name: Justin Gage
Hobbies/interests: Tennis, Basketball, Business, History
Activities: School newspaper, Bowling team, Gildor, Model UN, Bikur Cholim, Fire Marshal, Israel Action, Debate team, boys chorus,softball team
Honors/Awards: Honor Roll, AP Scholar, Regents Scholar, National Honor Society
College Choice/Applying to: Columbia
Career goals: undecided
Favorite quote: “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving is most definitely not for you”
Role model: Eric LeGrand

 

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