Zaparde Named Best In Youth 2011
Rujul Zaparde of Plainsboro has been named one of Nestle’s Very Best In Youth 2011. A freshman at Lawrenceville School, Zaparde co-founded Drinking Water for India to build tube wells in villages where the nearest potable water is miles away. His story has been told in the News, March 4 and May 13.
Faculty Learning
Amanda Frost, a teacher of history at Grover Middle School, is attending “The Age of Lincoln, a one-week seminar at Oxford University, this summer. The seminar, presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, explores the key aspects of Lincoln’s age, especially the American Civil War.
In College:
University of Rochester: Nisha Akshay Javeri graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in economics. She is a graduate of High School South.
Front Rush Internship For Twamley
Dave Twamley, a graduate of High School South, Class of 2009, is an intern with Front Rush, a software company for college athletic departments. A student at Wharton School at UPenn, he is working on building a new business for Front Rush. He and another intern are choosing the company name, the marketing strategy, the cost structure, the sales strategy, and the brand.
“The hands-on experience of building a company is far more valuable than the knowledge that can be grasped through a text book,” says Sean Devlin, the 29 year-old co-founder and director of product development at Front Rush. “Building a start-up will require them to learn how to think on their feet and make very difficult decisions as opposed to seeing how other people have done it. Ideally, they will go on become great entrepreneurs.”
