Student scholars

For the average student who will take a seat in a Costa Mesa Hilton ballroom this morning, being told they had achieved a 4.0 grade-point average would bring them to the depths of despair.

The Costa Mesa high school and college students being honored this morning at the Les Miller award breakfast expect their grades to be superlative; that’s just the foundation of their double-take inducing résumés.

To really be in the competition for the Les Miller award, given by the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce for the past 30 years, a student should have hundreds of hours of community service, club or sport leadership experience, and maybe a job or internship thrown in for good measure.

The event this morning, which starts at 7 a.m., will bring students from local high schools as well as Vanguard University and OCC together to receive the award, which was named for Costa Mesa High School’s first principal and a pioneering force in the awards event.

Congratulations are due to these achievers; some of their many accolades, activities and aptitudes can be found below, but a true detailing of each student’s exploits would fill this entire newspaper.

COSTA MESA HIGH SCHOOL

Courtney Green

Courtney Green has participated in Make-A-Wish Club, MESA, Academic Decathlon, the Gay-Straight Alliance, served as a delegate to 2008 Girls State, and was president and founder of Students Together Opposing Poverty, raising and donating money to Share Our Selves and International Rescue Commission. She has competed in volleyball, soccer, varsity cross-country and varsity distance track. Courtney has been recognized with the Mustang Scholar Award, Academic Excellence Award, and the Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Performance in algebra 2, biology, English, calculus, trigonometry/pre-calculus and physics. Courtney will probably attend UC San Diego.

Alicia Eastman