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Benefiting the Georgia Center for child Advocacy
October 18th, 2013
The Foundry at Puritan Mill
916 Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard NW, Atlanta
7:30 pm to 11:30 pm
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...for a brighter future
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EDUCATION
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Student Profile:
► Veronica Sondervan, junior
► North Springs Charter High
School
Veronica Sondervan has always had a
passion for the sciences.
“I’ve always loved science since I was
a little kid,” Veronica said. “It was one
of my favorite subjects in school. In kin
dergarten and first grade we had this af
ter-school program called ‘Mad Sci
ence,’ where people would come and do
lots of fun and interesting science exper
iments.”
Veronica’s passion for science has
paid off. She recently was selected to
be one of the few students around the
world — as well as the only student from
Georgia — to attend the three-day Glob
al Youth Institute hosted by the World
Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines,
Iowa, this October.
The 16-year-old won a place in the
Global Youth Institute by researching
and writing a five-page paper discussing
strategies to assist Indonesians in gain
ing more and better access to food. Del
egates to the institute are able to discuss
their research papers with other dele
gates, as well as scientific leaders.
“I am so proud of her,” said North
Springs Advanced Placement environ
mental science teacher, Science Bowl
and Science Olympiad team sponsor,
Patti Lawrimore, who will accompany
Veronica to the conference. “She will be
presenting her paper to a team of glob
al leaders and researchers, while interact
ing with Nobel and World Food Prize
laureates, and participating in other
planned events associated with the prize.
... It’s a real honor.”
Institute participants are also eligible
to apply for a free, eight-week summer
internship doing research in the partic
ipant’s choice of one of many countries
worldwide.
The Global Youth Institute is not Ve
ronica’s first scientific foray.
At North Springs Charter High, Ve
ronica is enrolled as a dual science and
visual arts magnet student. She’s found
er and president of the school’s comput
er science club, and in 2012 was award
ed the Steve Fowler Emerging Scientist
Award for the school’s most promising
science student. After school, she volun
teers at Fernbank.
In 2011, Veronica founded Pot-
cake EARS, an international, ongo
ing behavioral study of the potcake dog
breed from the Bahamas. The study has
had nearly 400 participants so far from
across the United States, Canada, the
Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos.
“I volunteered with an animal res
cue called Royal Potcake Rescue for two
years. Along with rescuing cats and dogs
around Atlanta, they would frequently
bring stray potcake puppies from Abaco
to Atlanta for adoption, and worked to
set up clinics to control the overgrown
stray population,” she said.
“It is difficult for potcake owners to
learn about their dogs, since, unlike oth
er dog breeds, there are no guidebooks
describing them or their personalities.
So I decided to research them and their
behaviors so potcake owners could learn
more about their pets. I think it’s nice
to be able to know more about your pet
and to be able to identify with other
potcake owners.”
that’s Next:
Veronica hasn’t settled on a college
yet, but knows she wants to do some
thing related to science.
Tins article was prepared by Blake
Flournoy, a student at Riverwood In
ternational Charter High School.
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