The archetypal two-time Superintendent’s Spotlight honoree is Warwick Valley High School pupil Ella Sussner. She was archetypal successful the Spotlight successful 2018 arsenic a seventh grader preparing for her last twelvemonth of mediate school. Today, she is simply a elder preparing for college.
In her erstwhile Spotlight, Ella was job-shadowing WVMS Principal Diopolous due to the fact that she was funny successful learning astir what goes into being a leader. “I aspire to beryllium a leader,” she said then, noting that she’d similar to 1 time find a occupation related to her 2 favourite subjects, mathematics and science.
This year, Ella was nominated by WVHS Principal Marguerite Fusco for the innate enactment qualities she exhibits astir the precocious school, on with her outstanding world achievements and the passionateness with which she pursues the things she loves.
“Ella is conscionable 1 of those students who you cognize you tin number connected to beryllium thoughtful and connection assistance erstwhile idiosyncratic needs it,” said Principal Fusco. “She is committed to her academics and getting the astir of her education. This twelvemonth she helped america arsenic a pupil ambassador during New Student Orientation, wherever her connection and enactment skills were connected afloat display.”
Ella fondly recalls the seniors who helped her connected her archetypal days of precocious schoolhouse and however overmuch it helped her consciousness invited and astatine ease.
“My full learning of the ecosystem of the schoolhouse was truly shaped by the radical moving my orientation,” she said. “I wanted to stock those aforesaid kinds of things, to walk connected lessons the seniors told maine arsenic a freshman. When you larn the secrets, dispersed them, marque somebody’s beingness easier.”
Ella achieved Summa Cum Laude Honor Roll presumption successful each 4 marking periods past twelvemonth and is carrying a afloat docket of AP courses this year. The National Honor Society subordinate is taking AP Government, AP Language & Composition, and, her favorites, AP Calculus, AP Biology, and AP Psychology.
Ella has ever loved the captious reasoning and investigation progressive successful mathematics and science, and precocious developed a passionateness for medicine, specifically orthopedic surgery. While being treated for a genu wounded herself, Ella met the pistillate who has go her mentor, Dr. Beth Shubin Stein, Associate Attending Orthopedic Surgeon and Co-Director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Center astatine HSS. Dr. Shubin Stein has taken Ella nether her wing, adjacent inviting her for occupation shadowing.
“That’s truly developed my emotion for orthopedics,” said Ella. “The operation of sports medicine and orthopedic surgery, and having my 2 loves – medicine and shot – intertwine; for that to perchance beryllium my career? That’s thing that excites maine precise much!”
In her spare clip Ella is an avid Fantasy Football subordinate and diehard New York Giants fan. In fact, she admits to adding Giants games to her calendar truthful she doesn’t find herself stuck moving connected those days. It’s been a bully play truthful far. The Giants are 3-1 and truthful is her phantasy team.
“I’m presently starring my league successful points, truthful hopefully I travel done with the prize,” she said. “The Giants, that’s astir decidedly a household thing. My ma likes to accidental that my dada is simply a shot fan, but helium turned maine into a monster. Oh, I’m nuts! Much much of a instrumentality than helium is now. Go, Big Blue!”
Ella is moving hard toward the STEM-y imagination occupation she envisioned successful mediate school. She’s acceptable wide goals. She is sending retired undergrad assemblage applications to large successful Biomedical Engineering, and plans to yet caput disconnected to aesculapian school.
As for the remainder of her elder year?
“Hopefully the Giants marque the playoffs,” she laughed. “But each the amusive elder things--the elder trip, of people graduation. The airy astatine the extremity of the passageway is decidedly bright.”
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