Sejal Hathi Receives Two
of the Nation’s Highest Honors
Sejal with a girl from
Kolkata, India.
In an extraordinary accomplishment, senior Sejal Hathi receives two of the nation’s highest honors offered to high school graduates. She has been awarded both the Presidential Scholar and the Principal’s Leadership awards.
Press Release (May 22, 2009)
Sejal Hathi's Trip to India with Girls Helping Girls
Last summer, Notre Dame students Sejal Hathi, Hanna Kim, Angelica Teng and Sandal Khandoker spent three weeks in Kolkata, one of Girls Helping Girls’ most impoverished sites. They knew they were making a difference, but they wanted to personally meet the girls they were working with.
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Descriptive Reflection of Sejal Hathi
by Barbara Simmons, MA Director of College Counseling, Notre Dame High School San Jose
There are not sufficient descriptors to begin to use to create Sejal’s picture for you: brilliant; an intellectual force; an adolescent who has already made a gigantic contribution for the world’s dispossessed and marginalized with her creation of an international nonprofit organization...
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LIST OF AWARDS
Presidential Scholar National Winner – From nearly 2.8 million graduating high school seniors from around the country, approximately 3,000 students were identified as potential candidates for the US Department of Education. For information on the Presidential Scholar, visit:
www.ed.gov/programs/psp/awards.html.
Principal Leadership Award National Winner – This honor’s our nation’s most distinguished graduating high school senior. Over 3,100 students were nominated by their high school principals for their leadership, participation in service organizations and clubs, achievements in the arts and sciences and academic record. For information on the Principal Leadership Award, visit:
www.principals.org/PLA.
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