The Exchange Club of Jacksonville Beaches has selected Fletcher High School seniors Carolina Sanchez and Connor Moore, and Ponte Vedra High School seniors Grace Littler and Joey DePorre, for their 2020 Student of the Year awards. They will each receive a monetary award given by the club for use toward post-secondary educational expenses.
The students and their parents normally are hosted at a breakfast meeting of the Exchange Club. Due to the COVID-19 issues, the students will receive their framed certificates and monetary awards by mail.
Sanchez lives with her parents, Jesus and Jessica Sanchez, in Jacksonville. She has been accepted by the University of Florida with plans to major in computer science with the goal of being a business owner. She is a duel enrollment student with Embry-Riddle University and Florida State College at Jacksonville, and has a Part 107 Unmanned Aircraft license. Moore, the son of Paul and Michele Moore of Atlantic Beach, also has been accepted by the University of Florida. He plans to major in pre-biological science with the goal of becoming a cardiologist. His school activities include being in the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society, Interact Club and Marine Coastal Club. He is the founder and president of Fletcher’s Special Olympics United Sports Club, which held a Polar Plunge, a Publix fund-raiser, and involved Fletcher students at North Florida School for Special Education with soccer and won a state championship in flag football competition.
Littler is the daughter of Richard and Jean Littler of Ponte Vedra Beach. She will attend the Georgia Institute of Technology on the Stamps President’s Scholarship with a major in physics of living systems. She wants to do scientific research and perhaps be a professor.
DePorre, son of Susan and Vince DePorre of Ponte Vedra Beach, will be enrolling at the University of Notre Dame this fall. He plans to major in biomedical sciences en route to becoming a physician.
