Rayleen is one of 21 seniors selected for The Augusta Chronicle's Best and Brightest Award for 2009. She and the other winners will be honored at a banquet tonight, where grand-prize recipients will be announced.
While all the students selected for Best and Brightest have set high goals for themselves, Rayleen Lewis will need a rocket to reach hers.
After studying aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, the Harlem High valedictorian’s career aspiration is to one day ride a NASA ship into space or to work at the space agency as an engineer. And while she is reaching for the stars, Rayleen hopes to inspire others to live a better life.
For three years, she has helped run a tobacco awareness program called “Kick Butts Day” in elementary schools and is currently involved in planning a program for middles school pupils that discourages underage drinking. She has served as a Relay for Life team captain for three years and has been a volunteer at Grovetown Elementary School since 2005.
Rayleen is the marching band captain at her school and president of Student Council; the Beta Club and the Honors Physics Club.
Read more about the Best and Brightest seniors of 2009 in The Chronicle's graduation section online and in print on Sunday. It includes profiles of valedictorians, salutatorians and lists of graduates for 61 for area high schools and.
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