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
WILLIAM “LIAM” McMAHON
Fairfield Prep
JULIETTE MURPHY
Greens Farms Academy
SOPHIE RUTOWSKI
Weston High School