Eric Juarez of Bolsa Grande High School has been chosen to spend a year as the non-voting student representative to the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education.
The 17-year-old senior was selected following candidate interviews conducted by high school student body leaders. He succeeds Judy Hoang, who graduated from Rancho Alamitos High School in June and is now studying communications at Cal State Fullerton.
Eric Juarez of Bolsa Grande High School has been chosen to spend a year as the non-voting student representative to the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education.
The 17-year-old senior was selected following candidate interviews conducted by high school student body leaders. He succeeds Judy Hoang, who graduated from Rancho Alamitos High School in June and is now studying communications at Cal State Fullerton.
As the new student representative, the Garden Grove resident also wears a second hat as chairman of the Board Representative Committee, the student advisory organization that serves as a liaison between the district’s 47,400 pupils and the Board of Education.
A well-rounded student with a strong academic record, Eric is involved in a diverse range of activities at Bolsa Grande. For this school year, he will serve as president of the school’s chapter of Project Angkor, which supports needed health services and medical training for the poor in Cambodia.
In addition, Eric will compete on the varsity volleyball team and continue in the Key Club. Just last month, he participated in the two-week Summer Premed Program at UC Irvine. Eric was part of a select group of high school students from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in being exposed to medical careers and the rigors of UCI’s premed classes.
Before coming to Bolsa Grande High, he attended Irvine Intermediate School and Newhope and Woodbury elementary schools in the Garden Grove Unified School District.
After graduation, Eric would like to study medicine at either UC Irvine, UC San Diego or UCLA. His career goal is to become a cardiac surgeon.
