Student Legacy Awards 2020
The Highline College Student Legacy Awards is an annual campus celebration to applaud student contributions for both academic achievement and campus involvement.
The 2020 Student Legacy Awards was presented in a virtual format in several videos. Below we have listed each video and the award winners being recognized in the video. You can also view all the videos in a playlist below and on YouTube. And the winners are listed in the program, and a printed version of the program was sent to all award recipients.
Video 1: Introductions
Our Chancellor of Cheers, Grayce Ross, introduces this year’s Student Legacy Awards, along with welcome messages from President Dr. John Mosby and Aaron Reader, Vice President of Student Services.
Video 2: Legacy Scholar Awards, part 1
In this segment, we present the Legacy Scholar Awards for:
- Achieve: Raven Moody
- Business Department: Ghislain Akouta and Losili E. Calderon
- Communication Studies: Zoe Williams
- Computer Science: Julian Burrington and Jaykant Hirpara
- Hospitality & Tourism Management: Pi Peng Chen
Video 3: Legacy Scholar Awards, part 2
In this segment, we present the Legacy Scholar Awards for:
- Journalism: Caleb Ruppert and Aline Valiente
- Mathematics: Abdullahi Mahdi and Tran Luu
- Model UN: Tyree Jackson and Carerra Titus Kariuki
- Respiratory Care Department: Angelina Bednaruk and Larin Miller
We also present the Legacy Leader award for the Thunderword to Isabella Anderson.
Video 4: Legacy Leader Awards, part 1
In this segment, we present the Legacy Leader Awards for:
- Achieve: Pietro Durante
- Achieve Peer Navigators: Paul Fernando King-Sanchez and Dean Winegar
- American Sign Language Club: Amaryah Johnson
- Arabic Club: Randa Alane and Faris Faris
- Associated Students of Highline College: Mohamed Jama
Video 5: Legacy Leader Awards, part 2
In this segment, we present the Legacy Leader Awards for:
- Business Club: Jasen Meyers and Cameron Sarrett
- Career Services (CASE): Shirin Niazmohammadi
- Community Leadership Consultant: Mi Chung and Jessica Morales
- Community Resource Consultant: Anh Che
Video 6: Legacy Leader Awards, part 3
In this segment, we present the Legacy Leader Awards for:
- Computer Science Club: Hasan Hasan and Marcella Huang
- Cooking Club: Katherine Marroquin and Selia Sosa
- Cru Club: Melissa Wilson
- Global Student Ambassadors: Dani Nguyen
- Hospitality & Tourism Management: Lingxi Adres
- Inter-Cultural Center Peer Facilitators: Cesar Madrigal
Video 7: Legacy Leader Awards, part 4
In this segment, we present the Legacy Leader Awards for:
- Marketing Outreach Design: Samira Rodol and Maya Santos
- Moms Elevated: Ebony Dixon-Padilla
- Public Speaking Center: Claudia Crock and Aisha Osman
- Respiratory Care Club: Chen Biyao
- Student Veterans of America: Christopher S. Ponce
Video 8: Legacy Leader Awards, part 5
In this segment, we present the Legacy Leader Awards for:
- Student Allied for Israel: Michael Kimball
- Theme Story Club: Joshua Denneny and Joshua Foster
- Transition Success Center: Heydie Martinez Gonzalez and Phuong Toles
- TRIO Student Support Services: Helena Haideni Ochoa and Christopher S. Ponce
Video 9: Final Awards
In this segment, we recognize the Student Leaders of the Month from throughout the academic year and present the CLS and CCIE Student of the Year to Sreynin (Lyn) Sam and the Student Employee of the Year to Grayce Ross, followed by closing remarks from Iesha Valencia, Associate Dean for Student Life.
View the entire Student Legacy Awards ceremony on YouTube and below:
Special Acknowledgements
We’d like to thank all our presenters for recording the video presentations. Thank you as well to Grayce Ross, who served as our Chancellor of Cheers (and is also the Student Employee of the Year as recognized by CASE); to Highline President Dr. John Mosby and Vice President of Student Services Aaron Reader for providing welcome messages from Highline; and to Associate Dean for Student Life Iesha Valencia for providing closing remarks.
Additional thanks to our MOD graphic designers Maya Santos and Samira Rodol for your beautiful designs; the entire CLS and CCIE professional and student staff teams; and to Dianna Thiele and Gavin Xie in the Purchasing department, Dave Weber in the Print Shop, and the Mail Services team for your support in printing our programs and plaques and mailing them to the student recipients so they could still be honored with a physical award.