Social media, a very strong force in our lives, seemed the ideal way of connecting my fellow students.

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Each year, FFA and agricultural education give over 520, 000 of my fellow students the opportunity to define their future by planting individual seeds of leadership, passion and opportunity.

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While extended school days can sometimes seem long, our mission in the quest for social justice, my students, their parents, and fellow teachers empower me to continue the struggle for educational equality for all students.

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That year, I saw Intel ISEF as an opportunity to spread awareness and I spent my time speaking to judges, students, fellow finalists, and the public, informing them of the prevalence of mosquito transmitted diseases.

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Fellow students at the Sorbonne dug up the cobblestones beneath my building and turned them into barricades.

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Insecure about my ethnic identity, in part because I attended a predominantly white university, I lashed out at fellow Hispanic students.

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