Name: Alexander Naehu — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 5.0 — High School Activities or Groups: Varsity Track and Cross Country, First Robotics Competition, Technology Student Association, MicroMouse, Model United Nations, Mu Alpha Theta, Science National Honor Society, National Honor Society, Chinese National Honor Society, Physics Club, CSF — After Graduation/College Plans: Massachusettes Institute of Technology: Double major in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence and Business — Career Goal: Do a cool startup and make it big. — Parents: Cyndi & Ken Naehu
Name: Austin Jones — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.89 — High School Activities or Groups: AP Scholar with Honor, Varsity Cross Country Team Captain, Varsity Track & Field, Varsity Lacrosse, First Robotics Competition Team, Honors Jazz Band, CA Seal of Biliteracy — After Graduation/College Plans: Purdue University — Career Goal: Mechanical Engineering — Parents: Keith & Debbie Jones
Name: Braden Colli — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.8 — High School Activities or Groups: Director, Live from 205 Student Broadcast News Program, NHS, jazz band, link crew — After Graduation/College Plans: Vanderbilt University — Career Goal: Film — Parents: Joe and Kathi Colli
Name: Kendall James Beshear — Age: 17 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.8 — High School Activities or Groups: Girls Varsity Indoor & Beach Volleyball Palos Verdes Volleyball Club (co-founder) Science Research Science National Honor Society — After Graduation/College Plans: Will be playing Volleyball at Cal Poly SLO — Career Goal: Studying Agriculture Science & Math — Parents: Matthew & Elizabeth Beshear
Name: William Corry — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.8 — High School Activities or Groups: AP Scholar, Varsity Soccer, CSF, French Honor Society, Link Crew, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, NHS, SNHS. — After Graduation/College Plans: University of Michigan — Career Goal: Medicine — Parents: Robert & Nathalie Corry
Name: Gabriella Di Camillo — Age: 17 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.8 — High School Activities or Groups: Be The Change (BTC) – VP; California Scholarship Federation – Gold Sealbearer; Girls Soccer; Link Crew; National Honor Society; Spanish National Honor Society — After Graduation/College Plans: Will attend the University of Southern California to study Occupational Therapy — Career Goal: To become a pediatric occupational therapist — Parents: Jeannine and Nick Di Camillo
Name: Rose Feng — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.0 — High School Activities or Groups: — After Graduation/College Plans: Amherst College — Career Goal: Psychology — Parents: Yuan & May Feng
Name: Nikolas Tsangaris — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: — High School Activities or Groups: CSF Gold Sealbearer, Varsity Football, Varsity Track, Los Angeles Chapter of the National Football Foundation, Scholar Athlete — After Graduation/College Plans: Undecided — Career Goal: Finance — Parents: Chris & Anna Tsangaris
Name: Danielle Fiamengo — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.37 — High School Activities or Groups: Photography Club, Sea Queens, Key Club, Girl Up, Link Crew, and High School and Club Volleyball — After Graduation/College Plans: Majoring in Graphic Communications at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo — Career Goal: Management in Graphic Design — Parents: Pete and Suzanne Fiamengo
Name: Christine Xie — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.9W/4.0UW — High School Activities or Groups: Lundquist Institute Summer Fellow, Triton Yearbook Editor-in-Chief, PVIT Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Captain, Girls’ Varsity Tennis Captain, Mu Alpha Theta President, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Club President, The Branch President, Science Olympiad President — After Graduation/College Plans: Human Biology/Computer Science at Stanford University. — Career Goal: Neurosurgeon, Biotechnology, Entrepreneur. — Parents: Richard and Wendy Xie
Name: Natasha Nirmal — Age: 17 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.0 — High School Activities or Groups: Math club and Mu Alpha Theta President, Science National Honors Society Vice President of Events, AP scholar with Honor , Selected to attend national summer math program at Duke University (SWiM) Founder and CEO of Cards for a Cause — After Graduation/College Plans: UC Berkeley — Career Goal: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence — Parents: Sindhu Nirmal and Nirmal Dhesaraj
Name: Naomi Gan — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.0 — High School Activities or Groups: Varsity Lacrosse, Model United Nations, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, Morgan’s Message — After Graduation/College Plans: Playing Division One lacrosse at UC Berkeley — Career Goal: — Parents: Winnie and David Gan
Name: Cayden Cooper — Age: 17 — High school: Palos Verdes High — GPA: 4.826 — High School Activities or Groups: National Merit finalist, Assembly, K.S. Choi Taekwondo, Model United Nations, Science National Honor Society, California Scholarship Federation — After Graduation/College Plans: UCSD (Neurobiology major) — Career Goal: end goal is to become a doctor — Parents: Candy and Scott Cooper
Name: Camden Friedman — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.97 — High School Activities or Groups: Red Tide President, National Honor Society, National English & Science Honor Societies, Link Crew, Project Runway, Lacrosse (JV, V), Football (Fr/JV), Alternative Investments Club (VP), CSF Gold, PVSA, National League of Young Men, AP Scholar with Honors — After Graduation/College Plans: Camden will attend the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business where he’s been invited to be a Global Leadership Program participant. He plans to study Business with an emphasis in Finance and Economics. — Career Goal: Camden aspires to work in the Investment Banking segment of the financial services industry. — Parents: Jordan and Amy Friedman
Name: Milo Daluiso — Age: 18 — High school: Palos Verdes High School — GPA: 4.0 — High School Activities or Groups: Cross-Country; Track; Skateboarding — After Graduation/College Plans: Milo will attend Colorado College in Colorado Springs in the fall. — Career Goal: Science and technology — Parents: Katherine Ellis and Brian Daluiso
We asked high schools across the South Bay to invite their valedictorians and top scholars to submit their photos and a little bit about themselves to celebrate their achievements as this senior year comes to a close. The following are the high school students who submitted their information, including after-graduation plans, and their career goals.
Congratulations, graduates!