<p>“Valedictorian, National Merit Finalist and 2010 Clark Scholar at Texas Tech University, Laura Xu” (Texas)</p>
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<p>"ValedictorianLaura Xu GPA of 4.88</p>
<p>She is the daughter of Wenwei and Yuping Xu. Laura has been very active and productive while a student at Lubbock High School. She has consistently been a winner in UIL Math and Science in both district and state levels and in Academic Decathlon where she placed first in the state in Math with a perfect score and fourth in overall scoring this year. Our valedictorian has served her fellow Westerners as a Class representative of the Student Council and Senior Class secretary. She has also been a member of the National Honor Society for two years and served as co-founder and co-president of PANDA, a student organization promoting diversity. Her service has also extended to the community, volunteering over 120 hours at the TTU Health Sciences Center and with the Scholastic Book Fair. Laura has garnered many accolades and awards during her years at Lubbock High School. She has been selected as a Teen of the Month and a Who’s Who all four years along with being named as a runner-up All-Westerner Girl. Chosen as the recipient of the Gary Fortenberry Award for Academic Excellence both her junior and senior years, our valedictorian has received an Academic Letter in Number Sense, Calculator, and Math and Science for four years. On the national level, she has been recognized as a National Merit Finalist and a regional winner of the Toshiba ExploraVision award, one of six awarded across the nation. Based on her research in the area of cancer fighting drug delivery, I suspect Laura will help find a cure for this horrible disease in the future. Laura will attend Princeton University this fall.</p>