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Meet our 2020 Changemakers & Courage Award winners
Tempe Union High School District, in partnership with the City of Tempe, recognizes students across all seven schools for their outstanding efforts in and out of the classroom.
Meet our Courage Award recipients:
Tempe YouthFest Courage Awards celebrates students who have courageously overcome incredible adversity. They choose to make their education a priority while facing life challenging events, such as homelessness, heartache, financial hardship, family turmoil, illness, substance abuse and physical disabilities.
Compadre Academy:
- Yarekzi Soberanez Salgado
- Brenna Venetos
Corona del Sol
- Princess Richard
Marcos de Niza
- Edilma Perez Matias
Mountain Pointe
- Jaiden Caballero
- Madisen Taylor
Tempe High
- Lesane Lopristi
- Uriel Xicohtencatl Perez
Meet our Changemakers:
Tempe YouthFest Changemakers celebrates students who are committed to a cause, dedicating themselves to make the world a better place. Whether it's on their school campus or in our community, when they see a problem, they take meaningful action to create positive change.
Compadre Academy
- JoJo (Jocie) Ayres
- Taniya Ball
- Carlos Cazares
- Erick Sanchez
- Desiree Valle
To learn more about these students, visit: https://www.tempeunion.org/2020-CA-Changemakers
Corona del Sol
- Iris (Meghan) McCain
- Emily Twitchell
- Emma Harlow
- Cassidy Spurgin
- Cici Bradley
To learn more about these students, visit: https://www.tempeunion.org/2020-cds-changemakers
Desert Vista
- Stefano Contreras
- Josephine Deignan
- Madelyn Gale
- Zoe Gale
- James Rooney
To learn more about these students, visit: https://www.tempeunion.org/2020-dv-changemakers
Marcos de Niza
- Sydney Ulm
- Brach Drew
- Ethan Storment
- Nikzza Acuna Salazar
- Matt Canada
To learn more about these students, visit: https://www.tempeunion.org/2020-mdn-changemakers
McClintock High
- Francisco Arroyo
- Zachary Axtell
- Sean Guiney
- Mayari Merchant
- Axel Guadalupe Becerra Hernandez
To learn more about these students, visit: https://www.tempeunion.org/2020-mhs-changemakers
Mountain Pointe
- Andrea McDonald
- Alan Dupre
- Christian Nunez
- Brookelyn Gomez
- Jonathan Otero
To learn more about these students, visit: https://www.tempeunion.org/2020-mp-changemakers
Tempe High
- Adya Austin
- Anne Shick
- Karla Daniela Salazar Chavira
- Keshawn Thompson
- Maria Valeria Garcia Muñoz
To learn more about these students, visit: https://www.tempeunion.org/2020-ths-changemakers