Future Global Leaders Awards &
$10,000 Merit Scholarship Program
World Affairs Forum
World Affairs Forum, 30 Oak Street, Suite 105, Stamford, CT
06905 www.worldaffairsforum.org
Objective:
The Future Global Leaders Awards & $10,000 Merit Scholarship
Program is sponsored by the World Affairs Forum (WAF) with the
support of our lead sponsors Pitney Bowes and Peoples Community
Foundation, as well as the support from the Ripplewood
Foundation, Thomson Reuters, the
Hutchins Family Fund, and Eni SpA. Its goal is to help develop
future global leaders in Fairfield County high schools with the
skills and qualities necessary to meet the challenges and
opportunities of the 21st century. The WAF intends
to achieve this objective by recognizing and rewarding young
leaders in Fairfield County who have demonstrated a commitment
to understanding global issues and leadership qualities
applicable to solving global problems.
Structure:
The Future Global Leaders Awards & $10,000 Merit Scholarship
Program is a two-tiered leadership awards & merit scholarship
competition for the 2009-2010 academic year:
First Tier-- Principal’s Future Global Leader Award:
for one high school junior at each participating high school selected by the principal and awarded as a Future Global
Leader at the end of 2009-2010 school year.
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A certificate from the WAF is awarded to a junior at the
end of his/her junior year at each participating high school for
outstanding leadership on global issues including academic
studies, extracurricular activities and/or community service.
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The recipients of the Future Global Leader Award are
selected by the principal of each school participating in the
program, according to the criteria established by the WAF (see
below) and are awarded at “Prize Day” or its equivalent at
the end of the 2009-2010 academic year at each participating
high school.
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Each school designates one student recipient and awards one
certificate, which the WAF provides. The Future Global
Leader Award winners will be invited as special guests to attend
a fall 2010 conference at the Council on Foreign Relations in
NYC and also will be invited to attend the WAF’s Great Decisions
and Forum Series programs over the course of their senior year.
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The high schools eligible to participate include all high
schools with college preparatory programs within Fairfield
County (approximately 40 schools with an enrollment of
approximately 50,000, 87% of whom are enrolled in public
schools, 8% in parochial schools and 5% in independent/private
schools).
Second Tier: $10,000 Merit Scholarship Award for college to
Fairfield County’s Most Outstanding Future Global Leader
selected by WAF panel of judges.
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Those juniors who receive the Future Global Leaders principal’s
award at the end of their junior year are then eligible to
compete for the WAF $10,000 Merit Scholarship for college, which
is awarded to Fairfield County’s most outstanding Future Global
Leader. Merit Scholarship awards will also be given
to the first, second, and third runners-up, $5,000, $3,000 and
$2,000 respectively. Each high school’s Future Global Leader
Award recipient was asked to forward a principal’s recommendation, a
500-word essay on global issues, and a completed application
form to the WAF no later than June 30, 2010.
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The WAF establishes a panel of judges, which includes civic,
academic and business leaders. This panel determines
the recipient of the $10,000 Merit Scholarship for college, plus
the merit scholarship award winners for the first, second and
third runners-up prizes.
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The recipient of the $10,000 Merit Scholarship and runners-up
awards, will be announced in October of 2010 and will be honored
at a WAF event.
Criteria:
The
criteria the high schools should use to determine their Future
Global Leader Award recipient follow. The same criteria is
used by the WAF to determine Fairfield County’s most outstanding
Future Global Leader, who will be awarded the $10,000 Merit
Scholarship for college, and the runners-up awards:
Recipients of the Future Global Leaders Awards and Scholarship
will be students who have demonstrated leadership, commitment
and determination in understanding global issues, fulfilling
their responsibilities as global citizens, and preparing
themselves for the challenges and opportunities they will face
in the interconnected global community.
Applicants will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
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Demonstrated academic leadership and achievement with a
particular focus on: 1) the student’s highly developed interest
in global issues; and 2) the student’s ability to address
innovatively problems with global impact (i.e., including math
or science achievements with a global focus, achievements in
social studies coursework relevant to understanding global
issues, and/or achievement in foreign languages, etc.);
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Demonstrated leadership in related extracurricular school
activities with an international focus, for example, Model UN,
Debate Team, Academic WorldQuest, Building with Books, Global
20/20, etc.; and/or demonstrated leadership in community service
with an international focus;*** and,
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Demonstrated ability to serve as a role model within the school
community.
*** Overseas travel is not required or expected as a criterion
for selection.
Timetable:
Following is the timetable for the 2009-2010 Future Global
Leaders Awards & Scholarship Program:
February 2010 WAF sends reminder to all participating
high schools regarding criteria and protocol for selection and
announcement of the Future Global Leaders in each participating
high school.
May
1, 2010 Participating high schools inform the WAF of
their Future Global Leader’s name so that the WAF can prepare
the certificate for the recipient. A principal’s recommendation
is due at this time for the Merit Scholarship competition.
May
15, 2010 WAF provides certificate and an information
packet and application form to each recipient of the high school
Future Global Leader Awards for the $10,000 Merit Scholarship
competition for college.
May/June 2010 Each participating high school awards its
recipient of the Future Global Leader Awards at its “Prize Day”
or equivalent.
June
30, 2010 Deadline for the high school Future Global
Leader Award recipients’ application to compete for Fairfield
County’s most outstanding Future Global Leader Award who will be
awarded the $10,000 Merit Scholarship for college.
October 2010 $10,000 Merit Scholarship recipient and
runners-up announced. The Merit Scholarship recipient and the
runners-up will be honored at a WAF event. All recipients of
the 2009-2010 high school principal’s Future Global Leaders
Awards will be invited to attend an afternoon conference at the
Council of Foreign Relations in NYC.
The World Affairs Forum:
The World Affairs Forum (www.worldaffairsforum.org)
is a non-profit, non-partisan community organization dedicated
to educating its members, the public and students of all ages
about international developments and America’s role in the
world. The Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs Councils
of America. The World Affairs Forum, representing Fairfield and
Westchester Counties, was founded in 1946 and is headquartered
in Stamford, CT. Through its speakers series, the Forum brings
to Fairfield and Westchester Counties the best thinkers, writers
and policy makers involved in world affairs through
approximately 30 programs each year. Along with the Future
Global Leaders Awards & Scholarship Program, the Forum also
seeks to educate high school and college students through its
World Class program, offering a high school international
knowledge competition, Academic WorldQuest, internships, and
college study abroad scholarships to assure that young people
are prepared for active participation in the global workplace.
Contact for future Global Leaders Awards & Scholarship Program:
Dr.
Lori E. Murray
Board Member and Chair, Future Global Leaders Awards &
Scholarship Program
World Affairs Forum
murraylori@aol.com
203-661-2122
202-329-6201 cell note “202” area code.
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Date: July 30, 2010
Contact: Kay Maxwell
Phone: (203) 356-0340
THE
WORLD AFFAIRS FORUM ANNOUNCES
2010
FUTURE GLOBAL LEADER AWARD WINNERS
FROM
FAIRFIELD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS
Stamford, CT-- The World
Affairs Forum (WAF) announced today the 37 winners of the 2010
Future Global Leader Awards from the participating Fairfield
County high schools, which include approximately 50,000 high
school students.
The Future Global Leader Award
Program is sponsored by the World Affairs Forum with support
from lead sponsors Pitney Bowes and Peoples United Community
Foundation, as well as the support of Thomson Reuters, the
Hutchins Family Fund, Eni SpA, and two anonymous donors.
Established in 2009, the Future
Global Leader Award program honors junior year students at each
participating high school throughout Fairfield County who
demonstrate outstanding leadership in understanding global
issues and solving global problems. The high school principals
designate their Future Global Leader based on this criteria.
“It is our privilege to honor
these accomplished and dedicated Future Global Leaders and to
work with high schools throughout Fairfield County to encourage
students to understand the global challenges of the 21st
century,” said Dr. Lori E. Murray, chair of the WAF Future
Global Leader Awards program. “The Future Global Leader program
is both a merit scholarship and a mentoring program,” Dr. Murray
explained, “and we look forward to our 2010 winners
participating in our programs during their senior year.”
The Future Global Leader Award
winners have received a certificate of award and are eligible to
compete for the World Affairs Forum’s $10,000 merit college
scholarship, which will be awarded to the outstanding Future
Global Leader in Fairfield County in the fall of 2010. Merit
scholarships will also be awarded this year to the first, second
and third runners-up in the amounts of $5,000, $3,000 and
$2,000, respectively.
The 37 Future Global Leader
Award winners for 2010 will be invited to attend an afternoon
conference generously sponsored by the Council on Foreign
Relations in New York City in the fall. And all 2010 Future
Global Leaders will be invited to WAF lectures and events in
Fairfield County throughout the 2010-2011 school year.
The judging committee for the 2010 merit scholarships for
college includes:
Helene Cooper,
NYTimes White House correspondent
Jeffrey Garten,
Professor Yale School of Management and former Dean of the Yale
SOM
Helene Gayle,
President and CEO of Care USA
Senator Nancy
Kassebaum Baker (R-KS) ret.
Lou Noto,
Managing Partner, Midstream Partners, LLC, former Chairman and
CEO of Mobil and Vice Chairman ExxonMobil
The 2010 Future Global Leader Award winners from the 37
participating Fairfield County High Schools are:
Academy of
Information Technology & Engineering
Stamford
Michael Taufen
Bassick
High School
Bridgeport
Rosemary Fuentes
Bethel
High School
Bethel
Nicola Gallagher
Brien
McMahon High School
Norwalk
Neil Govoni
Brookfield
High School
Brookfield
Matthew Goodrich
Brunswick
School
Greenwich
Kyle Wolstencroft
Bunnell
High School
Stratford
Stephanie Lupica
Central
High School
Bridgeport
Shanae Beckford
Central
Magnet High School
Bridgeport
Kathelyn Rivera
Convent
of the Sacred Heart
Greenwich
Jessica Morris
Danbury
High School
Danbury
Kathryn Peachman
Darien High
School
Darien
William Juan
Fairfield
College Preparatory School
Fairfield
Thomas P. Seiler
Fairfield
Warde High School
Fairfield
Kristen Burns
Greens
Farms Academy
Greens Farms
Fatima Mohie-Eldin
Greenwich
Academy
Greenwich
Gracia Vargas
Greenwich
High School
Greenwich
Olenka Polak
Immaculate
High School
Danbury
Meghan Wakeford
Joel Barlow
High School
Redding
Kyle Raskin
King Low
Heywood Thomas School
Stamford
Michael Schneider
Masuk High
School
Monroe
Jordan Walker
New Canaan
High School
New Canaan
Portia Schultz
New
Fairfield High School
New Fairfield
Mary Simons
Newtown
High School
Newtown
Monica Tedla
Norwalk
High School
Norwalk
Amy Lalime
Ridgefield
High School
Ridgefield
Allison Collins
Shelton
High School
Shelton
Omar Sobh
St. Joseph
High School
Trumbull
Matthew Ribeiro
St. Luke's
School
New Canaan
Lily Holland
Stamford
High School
Stamford
Rachel Berkrot
Staples
High School
Westport
Cole Manley
Stratford
High School
Stratford
Jennifer Louissaint
Trumbull
High School
Trumbull
Stephanie Davis
Warren
Harding High School
Bridgeport
Johnnie Romero
Westhill
High School
Stamford
Annie Zhang
Wilton High
School
Wilton
James Austin Schaefer
Wooster
School
Danbury
Huston Julian
The World
Affairs Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan community
organization dedicated to expanding understanding of global
affairs and America’s role in the world. The Forum is an
affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America.
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For Immediate
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Date: October 19, 2009
Contact: Kay Maxwell
Phone: (203) 356-0340
THE WORLD AFFAIRS FORUM ANNOUNCES
FUTURE GLOBAL
LEADER $10,000 MERIT SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
STAMFORD,
CT--The World Affairs Forum announced today that Samuel “Gus”
Ruchman, a senior at Brunswick School, is the winner of the Future
Global Leader Award for Fairfield County and the recipient of a
$10,000 Merit Scholarship for college, sponsored by Pitney Bowes and
IBM.
An award
ceremony hosted by Pitney Bowes Chairman, President & CEO Murray
Martin, will be held in conjunction with the Global Economic Trends
Lecture at Pitney Bowes World Headquarters on Oct. 29 at 6:45 pm.
Nicholas S. Perna, Managing Director, Perna Associates, will be the
guest speaker.
Ruchman, an
outstanding student in math, science, languages and the arts, heads
Brunswick’s Model UN, is a member of the Middle Eastern conflict
resolution group Seeds for Peace, and founded and leads Brunswick’s
Bear for Chairs, a community service team with the goal of aiding
those who are mobility-challenged including wounded vets. He also
organizes and performs on Daniel Pearl World Music Day.
The first
runner-up is Amanda Ackerman a senior at St. Luke’s School in New
Canaan. She is a Global Scholar who has combined her passion for
music and international relations to support the work of Malaria No
More and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
Second
runner-up is S’ha Siddiqi a senior at Joel Barlow High School in
Redding. She is trilingual and a recognized leader in the United
Nations- sponsored Children’s International Summer Villages (CISV)
and Care for Crisis, a student group that raises money for
international disasters.
Third
runner-up is Patience Mhlanga, a senior at Bassick High School in
Bridgeport, who is a member of the Fairfield University Upward Bound
and Talent Search program and is a recognized leader on hunger and
refugee issues. She gives speeches at Youth Centers and raises money
for the hungry in Bridgeport and in Ghana. She is also a student
leader in the Build On program, which focuses on environmental
sustainability.
The runners-up
will receive a certificate of award.
The goal of
the WAF’s Future Global Leader program is to help develop future
leaders with the skills and
qualities necessary to meet the challenges of the 21st
century. “It is our privilege to work with our sponsors Pitney
Bowes and IBM and the County’s educators to encourage and reward
these outstanding students in Fairfield County who have demonstrated
leadership in understanding global issues and solving global
problems,” said Dr. Lori E. Murray, chair of the WAF Future Global
Leader program.
“Pitney Bowes
is proud to support the WAF’s Future Global Leader award program,”
said Murray Martin, Chairman, President & CEO, Pitney Bowes Inc.
”Leaders with a global mindset provide organizations with a
competitive edge in their ability to deliver and tap into successful
new business opportunities. I congratulate the winners on both their
accomplishments and bright futures.”
Gene Rostov,
Chairman of The World Affairs Forum, noted, “We are pleased to have
initiated this innovative program to promote better understanding of
international issues among high school students. We believe it is
all of our responsibility to encourage students of all ages to know
more about the world in which we live and to become leaders in that
world. To this end, our groundbreaking Future Global Leaders Award
and Scholarship, conceived and executed by Dr. Murray and generously
underwritten by Pitney Bowes and IBM, is a bold, creative and
worthwhile endeavor.”
Ruchman, and
runners up Ackerman, Siddiqi and Mhlanga were chosen from the group
of 40 Future Global Leaders from each of the 40 participating high
schools in Fairfield County. These 40 leaders were then eligible to
compete for the $10,000 Merit Scholarship. The principals at each
high school selected their school’s future global leader based on
criteria established by the World Affairs Forum. An independent
judging committee selected the merit scholarship winner and the
runners-up also based on the same criteria. The independent judging
committee included:
Helene Cooper, NY Times White House correspondent
Jeffrey Garten, Professor, Yale School of Management and former Dean
of the Yale SOM
Helene Gayle, President and CEO of CARE
Ned Lamont, 2006 Democratic Senatorial candidate CT and Founder and
Chairman of the Board Campus Televideo
Lou Noto, Managing Partner, Midstream Partners, LLC, former Chairman
and CEO of Mobil and Vice Chairman ExxonMobil
The World Affairs Forum is a
non-profit, non-partisan community organization dedicated to
expanding understanding of global affairs and America’s role in the
world. The World Affairs Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs
Councils of America.
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Date:
June 29, 2009
Contact:
Kay Maxwell
Phone:
(203) 356-0340
THE WORLD
AFFAIRS FORUM ANNOUNCES
FUTURE GLOBAL
LEADER AWARD WINNERS
FROM 40
FAIRFIELD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS
Stamford, CT--
The World Affairs Forum announced today the winners of the 2009
Future Global Leaders Awards from the 40 participating Fairfield
County high schools.
The WAF Future
Global Leader Award Program, funded by Pitney Bowes and IBM, was
established this year throughout Fairfield County to honor students
completing their junior year at each participating high school, who
demonstrated outstanding leadership in understanding global issues
and solving global problems. The high school principals designated
their Future Global Leader based on this criteria established by the
World Affairs Forum.
“It is our
privilege to honor these accomplished and dedicated Future Global
Leaders and to work with the high schools to encourage the efforts
of their students to understand the global challenges of the 21st
century,” said Dr. Lori E. Murray, chair of the WAF Future Global
Leaders Awards program.
The Future
Global Leader Award winners have received a certificate of award and
an application form to compete for the World Affairs Forum’s $10,000
merit college scholarship, which will be awarded to the outstanding
Future Global Leader in Fairfield in the fall of 2009. The 40 Future
Global Leader Award winners will be invited to attend an afternoon
conference sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York
City in the fall. And, the Future Global Leaders will be invited to
WAF lectures and events in Fairfield County throughout the 2009-2010
school year.
The judging
committee for the WAF $10,000 merit scholarship for college include:
Helene Cooper, NYTimes White House correspondent
Jeffrey Garten, Professor, Yale School of Management and former
Dean, Yale SOM
Helene Gayle, President and CEO of Care USA
Ned Lamont, 2006 Democratic Senatorial candidate CT and Founder and
Chairman of the Board Campus
Televideo
Lou Noto,
Managing Partner, Midstream Partners, LLC, former Chairman and CEO,
Mobil and Vice
Chairman ExxonMobil
Christopher Shays, former US Congressman, 4th District,
CT
The 2009 Future Global Leader Award winners from the 40
participating Fairfield County High Schools are:
Academy of
Information Technology & Engineering, Stamford:
Virginia
LaFauci
Bassick High
School, Bridgeport:
Patience
Mhlanga
Bethel High
School, Bethel:
Morgan Bartz
Brien McMahon
High School, Norwalk:
Emma Kaye
Brookfield High
School, Brookfield:
Michael Becker
Brunswick
School, Greenwich:
Samuel Ruchman
Bunnell High
School, Stratford:
Shaquille B.
Brewster
Central High
School, Bridgeport:
Taarec Ahmed
Central Magnet
High School, Bridgeport:
Christian
Rivera
Convent of the
Sacred Heart, Greenwich:
Corinne Grady
Danbury High
School, Danbury:
Kenneth Crouch
Darien High
School, Darien:
Sunell Raghvan
Fairfield
College Preparatory School, Fairfield:
Thomas Gaudett
Fairfield
Ludlowe High School, Fairfield:
Elizabeth
Gilmer Smith
Fairfield Warde
High School, Fairfield:
Gavin Immer
Greens Farms
Academy, Greens Farms:
Ramzi Nimr
Greenwich
Academy, Greenwich:
Meredith
Schmidt-Fellner
Greenwich High
School, Greenwich:
Jack Applebaum
Immaculate High
School, Danbury:
Gavin Buckley
Joel Barlow
High School, Redding:
S’ha Siddiqui
King Low
Heywood Thomas School, Stamford:
Adrienne Hogan
Kolbe Cathedral
High School, Bridgeport:
Adelai
Jean-Gilles
Masuk High
School, Monroe:
Maxwell Gray
New Canaan High
School, New Canaan:
Hannah Herde
New Fairfield
High School, New Fairfield:
Ariel Ekblaw
Newtown High
School, Newtown:
Samantha Kent
Norwalk High
School, Norwalk:
Eloise Libre
Ridgefield High
School, Ridgefield:
Amy Ablondi
Shelton High
School, Shelton:
Rebecca Taylor
St. Joseph High
School, Trumbull:
Brittany
Batten
St. Luke's
School, New Canaan:
Amanda
Ackerman
Stamford High
School , Stamford:
Isaiah Bien-Aime
Staples High
School, Westport:
Scott Grundel
Stratford High
School, Stratford:
Margaux
Vanderheijden
Trumbull High
School, Trumbull:
Stephanie Bont
Harding High
School (Warren), Bridgeport:
Keyri Martinez
Westhill High
School, Stamford:
Adam Siegel
Weston High
School. Weston:
Khadija Lalani
Wilton High
School, Wilton:
Sarah
Gustafson
Wooster School,
Danbury:
Casey Orr
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FORTY FAIRFIELD COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOLS TO VIE FOR
FUTURE
GLOBAL LEADERS AWARDS AND
$10,000
SCHOLARSHIP
Stamford,
CT -- Forty Fairfield County high schools representing 50,000
students will participate in an innovative program to develop
young leaders dedicated to understanding and solving global
problems, the World Affairs Forum announced today. The Future
Global Leaders Awards Program will recognize one outstanding
junior from each participating school and then award a $10,000
Merit Scholarship to one of these forty young leaders.
The Future
Global Leaders Awards Program, which is supported by Pitney
Bowes and IBM, was created by the World Affairs Forum and joined
by educators and businesses that share the belief that today’s
interdependent world requires leaders with a global perspective
and 21st century skills.
“As an
organization dedicated to educating the public about global
issues, we recognize that developing young leaders capable of
addressing complex global problems is a responsibility we all
share,” said William Galvin, Chairman of the Board of the World
Affairs Forum.
Connecticut Education Commissioner Dr. Mark K. McQuillan stated
that the new program is consistent with the statewide priority
for secondary school reform. “We are committed to assuring that
all Connecticut high school students are prepared for careers in
a competitive global economy and that they develop 21st Century
skills in order to keep Connecticut’s economic edge in the
nation and world,” he said.
“Pitney
Bowes’s support of the World Affairs Forum is indicative of our
commitment to the communities in which we work and live,” said
Patrick Brand, President, Document Messaging Technologies,
Pitney Bowes and board member, WAF. “The Future Global Leaders
Awards program will achieve significant progress in developing
young leaders for our future workforce. In addition, the program
will increase student awareness of the complex challenges and
opportunities of the global economy.”
At the end
of the 2008-2009 school year, principals of each participating
high school will designate one Future Global Leader from the
junior class who will receive a certificate of award from the
World Affairs Forum. The 40 Future Global Leaders are then
eligible to compete for the $10,000 merit scholarship for
college, which the World Affairs Forum will award in October
2009.
Dr. Lori E.
Murray, the Forum board member spearheading the program, said,
“We created this program to support our school principals who
are leading the charge in the County to transform education to
adapt to new global realities.”
The
World Affairs Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan community
organization dedicated to educating its members, the public and
students about international developments and America’s role in
the world. The Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs
Councils of America.
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