Westport Teens to Watch

Kids these days. It’s a common refrain with each generation. Google defines this effect as: “The incorrect belief that children in the present are substantively different and necessarily worse than children a generation or two ago.” Even Google knows that it’s a myth, but we have gone a step further and ventured out into our community to prove that kids these days are, in fact, exceptional. Well, at least ten of them are (plus a bunch more who would have made the cut if we were featuring twenty or thirty of Westport, Weston and Wilton’s finest young folks).

Staples High School, Weston High School, Wilton High School, Greens Farms Academy, Fairfield Prep, St. Luke’s, King School and Wooster School submitted their most impressive upperclassmen from our towns, and the pool is brimming and bright with: nationally ranked athletes, political prodigies, environmental stewards, award-winning artists, published writers, multilingual phenoms, school ambassadors and budding medical researchers. Each of our finalists juggles a mind-boggling schedule of academic and extracurricular activities, and every last one is a compassionate human being who proves KIDS THESE DAYS ARE AWESOME.

Click on each name, below, to learn more about these student superstars.

DANIEL BABASHAK

Wilton High School

ANDREW BERKOWITZ

Staples High School

AUSTIN ETZBACH

Wooster School

BRENNAN FILA

St. Luke’s

MOLLY GORDON

King School

LILLY HOGAN

Greens Farms Academy

SARAH LAU

St. Luke’s

Photo by Robert Taylor Photography

WILLIAM “LIAM” McMAHON

Fairfield Prep

JULIETTE MURPHY

Greens Farms Academy

SOPHIE RUTOWSKI

Weston High School

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