​Troy High Student Selected for United States Senate Youth Prgm

Troy High Student, Kenneth Gu, Selected for United States Senate Youth Program

Troy High senior Kenneth Gu has been selected from among the state’s top student leaders for the prestigious United States Senate Youth Program. Gu is one of 104 scholars from across the country (2 per state) who will each receive a $10,000 college scholarship for undergraduate study. He will join Senator Debbie Stabenow and Senator Gary Peters in representing Michigan during the 59th annual USSYP Washington Week, to be held virtually March 14 — 17, 2021.

Kenneth Gu serves as the Senior Class president at Troy High. He has been an appointed student representative on the Troy School District Superintendent Student Advisory Board since 2018 and serves as the co-president of the Troy High chapter of DECA, a student organization focused on business and entrepreneurship. He has volunteered on Congressional and Senate campaigns, has helped coordinate a gardening club with his school and a local nursing home, provides support at a local hospital, and tutors his peers as part of the National Honor Society. An avid runner, Kenny was elected cross country captain for the Fall 2020 season by his peers, has finished in the Top 50 of the U.S. Biolympiad, a nationwide competition among biology students, and was runner-up in the Michigan Brain Bee, a statewide neuroscience competition.

Troy High Principal Remo Roncone is proud of his student, saying “It is such an amazing achievement for Kenneth. This is truly a special moment for him, his family, and our school. He is such a deserving young man. I’m sure that this is one of many more special moments to come in his life and we will be here cheering for him each step along the way.”

Each year this extremely competitive merit-based program brings the most outstanding high school students - two from each state, the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education Activity - to Washington, D.C. for an intensive week-long study of the federal government and the people who lead it. However, this year, due to the pandemic, the 2021 program will break ground as the first-ever fully virtual Washington Week, and is designed to be a highly interactive and exciting education and leadership forum for the nation’s most outstanding student leaders.

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Photo courtesy of Kenneth Wu and the Troy School District