May 5, 2014
Claudia Torres and Carolina Castedo, seniors at Robinson Secondary School and members of the school’s Latin American Student Association, received scholarships from the Hispanic Leadership Alliance.
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Robinson Students Receive Scholarships
Claudia Torres and Carolina Castedo honored by Hispanic Leadership Alliance.
Claudia Torres, a senior at Robinson Secondary School, and Carolina Castedo, also a senior at Robinson, both moved to the United States at a young age over 10 years ago. Torres is Peruvian, and Castedo is Bolivian and Chilean. Burke residents Torres and Castedo, both 18, wrote about challenges they have overcome as newcomers to the United States, as well as reasons they wish to attend college, in an application for a Fairfax County Hispanic Leadership Alliance Scholarship. “I didn’t know how to speak English, and that was hard for me when I got here,” Castedo said.
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