Calvin Bell will attend the forum at Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia this month
Outstanding middle school students from across the nation will take part in a unique academic development experience, the National Youth Leadership Forum:
Explore STEM. The forum's mission is to inspire scholars to explore career possibilities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Students who attend the program participate in a broad range of interactive simulations, hands-on workshops and educational site visits to discover the work of today's professionals in fields such as engineering, health care and environmental science. Scholars of the program will also learn to develop critical success skills such as time management, conflict resolution, information analysis, collaboration and public speaking.
Calvin R. Bell III, 14, has been accepted to attend the Envision National Youth Leadership Forum -- Explore STEM, at Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia starting on July 17. The Envision Program focuses on the core subjects of robotics, environmental science, video game designing, and medicine. The program also helps students with the college process like setting up college resumes.
Calvin is a recent eighth grade graduate of the City School Christian Private School located in Philadelphia, and will be attending high school at Moorestown Friends School in Moorestown, where he will be taking college prep and honors classes.
Calvin's awards from the past year include:
- Co-Valedictorian
- Head of School Award
- Music Class Award
- High Honors (4.0 GPA)
- Academic Effort Award
- President's Education Awards Program
Calvin is currently staying with my grandmother and great-grandmother in Pennsauken for high school. Calvin's mother lives in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Parkside United Methodist Church in Camden; he was a member of his school's soccer and basketball teams, and he is also a member of a travel baseball team called Advantage Baseball.
He has helped the community by coaching younger kids at the Pennsauken Soccer Field and giving assistance at his church. Other achievements include being inducted into the Junior Honors Society, attending People-To-People World Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., attending Model United Nations in Hershey, Pennsylvania and being named the top student of his envoy, and being honored with the Champion of Change Award by the District Attorney of Philadelphia
Calvin hopes to reach his goal of attending either Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Stanford universities to become a lawyer, then a politician, and hopefully the future President of the United States of America.
For more information about NYLF Explore STEM, visit www.envisionexperience.com.
This item submitted by Calvin Bell.