Congratulations to all of the Young Ambassador of PA Graduates!
Last name, First name, Class year
Agrawal, Tanisha, '24
Anderson, Luke, '23
Anjum, Zahra, '23
Baker, Sage, '23
Beckish, Grace, '23
Bedekar, Vedant, '24
Boidock, Kathryn, '24
Brach, Claudia, '23
Brunel, Henri, '23
Burkett, Emma, '23
Burt, Macie, '24
Chandra, Ania, '23
Chavez, Adrian, '23
Chen, CJ, '23
Chowdavarapu, Shriya, '24
Conklin, Corben, '23
DeNaples, Michelena, '24
Depaul, Amelia, '24
Dixon, Cy, '24
Dutcher, Sadie, '23
Forrester, Andrew, '23
Harris, Michael, '24
Harris-drumwright, Nina, '24
Hines, Mackenzie, '24
Khandelwal, Siddhant, '23
Klaff, Cale, '23
Koch, Emilee, '24
Krieger, Katie, '24
Krimin, Olivia, '23
Layden, Anna, '23
Lepley, Riley, '24
Lin, Maya, '24
Majocha, Elijah, '23
McNamara, Brady, '23
Mehta, Tushar, '24
Muchoney, David, '24
Nassir, Fadila, '24
Neogi, Shaunak, '24
Nie, Minping, '23
Nixon, Jaden, '23
Oduntan, Oluseyi, '24
Ostinowsky, Madison, '23
Patel, Rudra, '23
Piccione, EzaBella, '24
Pietropaolo, Sophia, '24
Rijo, Eleana, '23
Salzman, Abigail, '23
Schlameuss, Rese, '23
Schreiber, Kalub, '24
Schwulst, Emelia, '24
Shah, Hetvi, '24
Skal, Carmen, '23
Smalls, Angelique, '23
Sringari, Riya, '23
Stek, Kaelyn, '24
Stellfox, Morgan, '23
Stewart, Gianna, '23
Trivedi, Shreyas, '24
Tzoanos, Naomi, '23
Udgiri, Tanvi, '23
Varghese, Aaron, '24
Weaver, Stella Blue, '23
Westrick, Jensen, '23
YA Student Project Highlights
Elijah Majocha
’23 Education Event, Allegheny County
Elijah Majocha,
’23 Education Event, Allegheny County
Elijah Majocha, taught about 200 kids in two days. He helped teach them about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling materials with hands on activities! He also did a lesson about greenhouses and composting to help mitigate food waste.
Zahra Anjum
’23 Cleanup Event, Cumberland County
Zahra Anjum,
’23 Cleanup Event, Cumberland County
Zahra Anjum did a collaboration with The Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America (APPNA) organization and collected 6 bags of trash, the majority of what they found were cigarettes, soda cans, plastic items, and many alcohol beverage bottles.
Naomi Tzoanos
’23, Education Event, Chester County
Naomi Tzoanos,
’23 Education Event, Chester County
Naomi held an Education Event as a part of the first Earth Day Community event at Upper Main Line YMCA in Chester County! At the event, she spread awareness about sustainability and recycling efforts through a kid-friendly craft event that used recycled paper towel rolls. The kids created lady bug and bumblebee buddies!
CJ Chen
’23 Education Event, Chester County
CJ Chen,
’23 Education Event, Delaware County
CJ led a group tour of Little Crum Creek Park and identified various native and invasive species during the walk. They handed out reusable identification keys and information to participants to read. The water testing portion included sampling from the Little Crum Creek and identifying the macroinvertebrates using magnifying glasses and the ID chart. The walk concluded with a light lunch and a native seed planting activity where participants can take home a planted pot home to enjoy.
Aaron Varghese, Vedant Bedekar, & Shriya Chowdavarapu
’24 Cleanup Event, Chester County
Aaron Varghese, Vedant Bedekar, & Shriya Chowdavarapu
’24 Cleanup Event, Chester County
Aaron, Vedant, Shriya, and volunteers cleaned up around Chester County Library. They removed plastics, soda cans, glass, trash, cigarette stubs, and other types of litter from the stream, grassy areas and parking lot.
Kalub Schreiber
’24 Cleanup Event, Perry County
Kalub Schreiber,
’24 Cleanup Event, Perry County
Kalub got together with a small group of friends and family to host a cleanup. They cleaned up a pull off near a bridge that had been common for dumping. They found mattresses, toilets, tires, rugs, clothes, hoses, bottles (plastic and glass), and other common littered items. They made sure to wear cut resistant gloves and used a separate container for sharp objects. They even removed a rug that seemed to be the size of a bedroom.
Hetvi Shah & Oluseyi Oduntan
’24 Education Event Bucks County
Hetvi Shah & Oluseyi Oduntan,
’24 Cleanup Event, Bucks County
Oluseyi and Hetvi, taught nearly 80 fifth graders about the importance of environmental stewardship! They gave a presentation about the importance of protecting the environment and then held an interactive session where students were invited to talk about their thoughts and ideas. The event culminated with the group collaborating on a list of 17 ways they could all help protect the environment and then tested their knowledge with a game of bingo!
Sophia Pietropaolo
’24 Cleanup Event, Allegheny County
Sophia Pietropaolo,
’24 Cleanup Event, Allegheny County
Sophia organized her cleanup event at Boyce Park in Allegheny County for which she recruited volunteers and partnered with Boyce Park Rangers. "We worked for 2 hours and removed about 175-200 invasive honeysuckles. It started to rain an hour into the cleanup but it wasn't anything that stopped us. At the end, the rangers also went around spreading seeds to plant more native species in the area."
Hi Young Ambassador Alumni,
We hope all is well with you and we want to continuously support you throughout your life. Please fill this form out whenever you have something to share that you are proud of or that we can use to highlight you in any of our materials.
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Want to learn more about The Young Ambassadors of PA Program? Please contact Kylie McCutcheon, Affiliate Coordinator, at kmccutcheon@keeppabeautiful.org or 724-836-4121 ext. 114.
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