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Westminster Christian School senior Adriana Couto is the chair of the Junior Orange Bowl Youth Ambassadors She’s been involved in the organization since seventh grade and was elected chair of the youth ambassadors this year.
She created the Junior Orange Bowl Youth Ambassadors Club at school to get more students involved in the Junior Orange Bowl. She is the club president.
“It’s an organization that aims to positively influence South Florida by providing enriching experiences for young people,” she says. “The point of the club is to bring people from school to the Junior Orange Bowl drives so they earn community service hours.”
She hopes other schools will also create a Junior Orange Bowl Club. The club participated in a food drive with Caring for Miami.
“We provide healthy meals and food for children in need as well as a backpack program,” she says. “We make bags of nutritious food that they can take home. It’s 1,000 bags of meals. I’m bringing people from my school to go and volunteer so they can earn hours too.”
“During Christmas, we had a drive through Toy Drive,” she says. “The kids were so excited as they received their beautifully wrapped gifts. We get as many people to come to volunteer as possible.”
Junior Ambassadors also visited seniors in retirement homes.
“We did arts and crafts,” Couto says. “We would share stories with each other. They were all happy.”
At school, Couto is an anchor in the new mass media class, which involves marketing and broadcasting. The class broadcasts at chapel, and the anchors talk about and run clips related to the message that day.
“We edit and film,” she says. “I love the editing process. And we make the script. I love sharing them.”
She’s been in the WCS signature entrepreneurship program for three years. The program teaches students how to start businesses and bringing guest speakers who have successfully done so.
She is a member of the National Honor Society, the National Business Honor Society, the National Art Honor Society, Rho Kappa, the National English Honor Society and the National Science Honor Society.
She’s been a varsity cheerleader and played varsity lacrosse for four years. In lacrosse, she plays the attack position and was named the Most Improved Player on the team, with 13 goals last season. She made All Miami-Dade Honorable Mention for lacrosse.
This past summer, Couto interned at Dream Team Law.
“I assisted attorneys and organized information, filed and I talked to clients on the phone and helped them schedule appointments,” she says. “It helped me make sense of what the real world is, and what it’s like working at a law firm.”
Her potential career interests include communication, journalism, business and maybe law.
Her college applications included marketing, communications, and business. Schools she applied to include SMU, Clemson, TCU, Florida State University, Florida International University and the University of Miami.
In addition to volunteering through the Junior Orange Bowl Young Ambassadors program, she has volunteered as a coach at the Cheer Camp at Westminster for elementary and middle school girls.
Every summer she attended a Universal Cheerleaders Association Cheer Camp, and she’d use that knowledge to help the younger kids.
“It’s cool because we’re teaching the girls things we learned at cheer camp,” she says. “It’s special because they look up to us.”
At the end of the week, they’d put on a show.
“It was fun to show what the girls have learned,” she says.
She also volunteered at the Westminster Fun Camp each summer.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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