Featured Student

Featured Student

 

Sabah Muktar

Grade: 11

Pikesville High                         

 



In school achievements:

  • Began Pikesville High School in English 9 standard but is now taking AP English 11
  • Improved PSAT scores from the 30 range to the 50 range (AP potential)
  • Joined AVID this year

Out of school achievements:

  • Born in U.S., lived in Ethiopia for 12 years. Both parents born and raised in Ethiopia
  • Volunteered as after-schools supervisor at Fort Garrison Elementary
  • Volunteered to help beginning swimmers at Cold Spring pool

Quote:

Fantasy novelist Terry Goodkind wrote, “They will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true or because they are afraid it might be true.” Sabah says this is an important quotation because there are people who believe lies because they are scared they might be true. “There are sometimes things that I believe because I want it to be true,” says Sabah, “or there are times I want them to be true, so I believe in them. For example, someone says that the test may be hard. It may not be true. It is only hard because you believe it to be so.”

 

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