The President’s List Award is a prestigious award given to students each quarter who have made positive impacts in the community that go above what is expected of them.
Teachers, peers, and club or class sponsors can nominate students. A committee of administrators and advisors then recommends recipients to the school president.
This year, Abby Bradley ‘25 was the Quarter 1 recipient of the President’s List Award. Bradley received this award for being the social media manager on the Taiwan trip for the Bolles Chinese Club.
When her teacher brought up the idea of being the social media manager to the class, Bradley jumped at the chance and volunteered. “I volunteered to run the social media account because I was really excited about the trip and I wanted to be able to share our activities and what we did with everyone back home, like our parents and everyone who couldn’t see it.”
Bradley said that being the social media manager led to bonding with the rest of the group about their trip. “It was also a good way to get the group together, talk about what we learned, and talk about what we did every evening,” said Bradley.
While on the trip, Bradley enjoyed going through all the photos with the other people on the trip. “It’s really fun to just go through all the pictures at the end of the day and see what we did and people’s thoughts on it.”
Traveling to a different country leads to many new and exciting experiences, going places such as Zhong Li and Tai Chung. Bradley said it was difficult to capture everything because of how much the group did.
Bradley was surprised to hear that she had won the award because she didn’t sign up to be the social media manager to win any award. “I was really surprised because I did it because it was a really fun thing to do and a fun activity so when I saw it I was really excited and honored.”
Bradley thinks that the reason she received the award had less to do with what exactly she did, because “anyone can run a social media account,” but more to do with how she did it. She was enthusiastic about being the social media manager, and put in lots of hard work and effort into the account.
“It kind of goes to show in anything you do, it’s not necessarily about what you do, right? But it’s how you do it.”
