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Aggelos Kalafatas

Aggelos is a high school student always in search of answers to non-conventional questions. In this quest, he enjoys crossing streams between disciplines in science and the arts to reveal aspects of truth and awe that validate life.

Alexandra Papasavva

Alexandra is an ambitious and industrious high school student with an eye for meaningful details. She can see herself in positions of authority when she enters the 'real world' yet she appreciates that true strength comes from growth and true growth from authenticity.

Aliki Paisiou

Aliki wants to change the world, one good deed at a time. While she decides between career paths as diverse as diplomacy or psychology, she is set on her conviction that compassion makes the world go round and she is determined to serve this vision.

Dimitris Pappas

There are very few activities that Dimitris Pappas isn’t involved in at school. He is a young man with an insatiable drive to understand the social drives that make him and his school mates behave the way they do. He thinks this would clear a path of true maturity and independence for his generation.

Elisavet Monogioudi

Elisavet is a high school senior with zest for life and dreams of independence. Her soul searching during her school years brought her to appreciate the transformative power that self-care has when it fuses into the love we nurture for our chosen special others.

Emmanouela Stavroulaki

Emmanouela is a senior high-school student fascinated by the potential of a young person to change the world and is determined to keep an open and inquisitive mind as to how she can best serve the community when she enters the real world.

Foteini Dragati

Foteini is a bright high school senior with great aspirations about life. She has learned from early on that nothing should be taken for granted and that happiness is an uphill path filled with adventure, and often pain. In her battle with anorexia, Foteini has become stronger, wiser and passionate about spreading the word among young people, that resilience begins with self-acceptance.

Giannis Tsigaros

Giannis is a driven high-school student filled with ambitions and sensitivities. He plays tennis competitively and entertains the idea of studying psychiatry among other things.

Giorgos Pantelidis

Giorgos is a very inquisitive 15year old with a keen interest in market economies and their impact on democracy and well being. He enjoys competing in sports, especially track. Between studying and meeting friends he enjoys following world affairs through online media.

Iliana Fili

Iliana is counting seconds to finish school and sail the real world. She knows very well that with many talents comes great responsibility and she is determined to make every second count. She is a champion of each person’s search for one’s true self and whatever she chooses to do in life, she will be an advocate for authenticity.

John Giannourakis

Student

John Gialourakis is a high school senior that loves coding, computer science and has a soft spot about ethical hacking.

Konstantina Marinou

Konstantina is a very creative high school student with aspirations to change the school syllabus to make it more innovative and engaging. She loves working on startup projects with her classmates and is on a mission to reform education in Greece.

Marilena Papathanasiou

Marilena is a dedicated optimist and social justice champion. Being among students at the top of her class allows her to dream with sky the only limit. She is passionately vocal against stereotyping and bullying in the school environment and beyond.

Mary Theoulaki

Mary loves observing, learning, growing. She takes life one moment at a time, cherishes it, and aspires to be ready for whatever else life throws at her. She is passionate about spreading the hopeful truth that life is about overcoming.

Memnune Bogiatzi

Memnune studies Public Administration at the University of Athens. Her experiences growing up as a Muslim Greek citizen in Greece made her passionate in championing interfaith dialogue against religious prejudice.

Nikos Dionysatos

Nikos' interests revolve around literature, theater and the humanities in general because as he says, these are his passions. He is a natural-born researcher and seeks to gain specialized knowledge on any subject he encounters.

Phaedra Vigilaiou

Faidra is a high school student with professional aspirations that go beyond ordinary conventions. She has a firm belief that nothing happens unless first a dream and she dedicates every conscious moment in her day to visualize the scripts through which her talents meet to bring something authentic in the world.

Savvas Soldatos

Savvas is more than your average inquisitive high school senior; he is a renaissance man in the making. At the heart of his varied interests in the arts and sciences, he considers the craft of finding the right question and posing it - to hold the secrets to the self and the universe.

Thei Xanthou

Thei is a high-school 'grade A' student who supports that grades are not everything for a young citizen. For Thei, excellence is best pursued when one is following their passion, and she intends on fulfilling that commitment.