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Mill Creek Student Named to PARADE All-American Service Team
Charles OrgBon recognized for his efforts to change the world.
student and Dacula Patch blogger Charles OrgBon III has been named to the PARADE All-American Service Team in the environmental category.
OrgBon, 15, is the CEO of a non-profit organization known as Greening Forward. This organization is an environmental advocacy-education group that
“As a fifth grader, I saw trash outside my school," OrgBon said in a released statement. "I’d stay late to clean up, and I wondered how to make other kids more aware.”
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The PARADE All-American Service Team was selected in association with the youth service division of the non-profit Points of Light Institute known as generationON.
Fifteen students from across the country were honored in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 9 in an event featuring Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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“By helping solve problems and meet needs in communities near and far, students enrich their own lives, strengthen our country, and improve conditions all over the world,” Duncan said according to a press release from PARADE magazine.
This ceremony to honor the PARADE All-America Service Team was followed by a discussion on how youth service can be used as a lever in the educational system and a force for changing the world. Juan Williams of Fox News was the discussion facilitator.