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Miami Palmetto High School senior Marly Young participates in numerous community events with her band through the School of Rock in Coral Gables. She plays keyboard.
House band members play multiple gigs for different charities and causes.
“We practice a few times a week and we go to charity events,” she says. “We did an event for the Society for the Prevention of Teen suicide. We played at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.”
Young taught herself to play the piano before she started at the School of Rock.
“I got invited to audition and then I got accepted to be in the house band,” she says.
This summer the band attended SummerFest for four days.
“We got to play there,” she says. “We got to see a bunch of cool bands like Dave Matthews and Earth Wind and Fire. It was so much fun. We got to play with a bunch of bands from other places, too.”
Young is the Chief Communications Officer for Volunteering Miami.
“I’ve been on the administrative board for four years,” she says. “I started out as the Palmetto head of outreach and moved to CCO three years ago. Besides outreaching to organizations and to students, I help run social media and make flyers I do all the promotional work. I also helped rework our website.”
She also does public relations work, digital web design and recruitment.
“I also contact schools to see if they would like to be more involved in Volunteering Miami,” she says.
Those schools are not limited to Miami-Dade County. They are expanding to Nova Southeastern University in Davie and to a high school in Orlando.
At Palmetto, she’s president of the community service club, Interact. The club helps inform students about volunteer organizations and trains students in leadership.
In the past, the club sponsored a school wide talent show which they hope to start up again this school year.
“We started planning it at our last meeting,” she says. “We have nothing set in stone yet.
We’re hoping to have enough people to have it this year.”
Young is also the student council public relations content creator.
“I create and edit all the promotional messaging for all the activities,” she says. “Similar to what I do for Volunteering Miami, but just more of a video approach than a graphic approach.”
Her freshman year she was class secretary. She’s a member of the National Honor Society, the National Art Honor Society, and Tri-M, the music honor society.
She’s also a Health Information Project peer educator.
“I think it’s a lot of fun being able to teach incoming freshmen about health issues,” she says. “The topics we talk about are real. I love being on HIP and being able to help them if they need it.”
The topics include issues such as relationships, mental health and teen health issues. The peer educators go into freshman classrooms to teach the modules and take questions from the students.
This year, Young is the design editor of the school yearbook. Last year she was the managing editor. She’s happy to have more design related duties.
“I really do love editing,” she says. “It’s so much fun.”
She plans to major in digital media and graphic communications so she can go into marketing. Young is applying to the University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt, Florida State University, the University of Florida and Tulane.
Young is following in her father’s footsteps. Her dad, Dustin Young, was the first Positive People of Pinecrest honoree.
“I’m very honored to be nominated,” she says.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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