National Alliance of Faith and Justice - Washington State

Congratulations to our very own FCPS student Heman Bekele who has been named TIME magazine's Scientist!! Last October, Heman, a rising 10th-grader at Woodson High School, was the winner of its Young Scientist Challenge. His prize: $25,000. His accomplishment: inventing a soap that could one day treat and even prevent multiple forms of skin cancer. It may take years before such a product comes to market, but this summer Heman is already spending part of every weekday working in a lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, hoping to bring his dream to fruition. When school is in session, he’ll be there less often, but will continue to plug away. “I’m really passionate about skin-cancer research,” he says, “whether it’s my own research or what’s happening in the field. It’s absolutely incredible to think that one day my bar of soap will be able to make a direct impact on somebody else’s life. That’s the reason I started this all in the first place.”

https://time.com/6996507/heman-bekele/ Fairfax County Public Schools

Amazing Twin Sisters Kirstie and Kristie Bronner Graduate As Spelman Co-Valedictorians In 2013, history was made at Spelman College as identical twins Kirstie Foley and Kristie Brawley, better known as the Bronner Twins, were named co-valedictoria