White to represent BCC in US Presidential Scholar program
Buckeye Career Center senior Angel White is one of only five career technical education students in Ohio to be selected as an applicant for the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program.
Buckeye Career Center senior Angel White is one of only five career technical education students in Ohio to be selected as an applicant for the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program. She will represent the accomplishments in career technical education division.
The selection was made by the Ohio Department of Education Office of Career Technical Staff. White, a teaching professions student from Indian Valley Local Schools, carries a 3.06 GPA, is enrolled in College Credit Plus classes at Kent State Tuscarawas and is a Buckeye student ambassador.
“I’m incredibly honored to be in the top five in the state of Ohio. This is not something I ever expected to happen, but I can’t wait to see all of the new doors that will open because of this. I plan to embrace all opportunities it brings,” White said.
White was nominated by her BCC school counselor Jennifer Robinson, who primarily nominated White for her 2019 national gold medal presentation in her career technical student organization, FCCLA. The project was titled “Speak Out,” focusing on self-harm.
White is now attempting to develop the nonprofit, Speak Out Ohio. This group will serve as a self-harm mentorship program while also providing parental support and coping-mechanism workshops.
“She is the most ambitious student I’ve ever met. She is very driven, and I couldn’t have asked for a better student to be nominated for this,” Robinson said.
White, the daughter of Emily and David White of Dover, will be honored Feb. 5 in Columbus at the Ohio Association of Career Technical Education Legislative Seminar. She now has the ability to apply to be a U.S. Presidential Scholar with up to 20 students honored at the national level each year in the career technical education category and a total of 240 students honored overall.
Applicants must submit essays, self-assessments, secondary school reports and transcripts for review. Winners receive an expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. and are awarded a medallion at a ceremony sponsored by the White House.