He is also a Cappie Award-winning actor, a National Achievement Scholar and a recipient of the Kodak Young Leaders Award.

* Honorable mentions: Sarah Grace King, Douglas; Jennifer Lovelace, South Plantation; Benjamin McAfee, Cooper City.

SCIENCE

KYLE EDWARD ROBINSON

AMERICAN HERITAGE

As a chubby kid, classmates made fun of Kyle. So as a high school student, he created a nutrition and fitness program for the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County.

Kyle provided lessons about balanced eating, reading food labels and the benefits of exercise.

"Kyle does not use his intellect merely to achieve an incredible SAT score or use his creativity to write a piano concerto," said Douglas Laurie, vice president of American Heritage. "He utilizes his abilities to create positive changes in his community."

Kyle is a National Merit Scholar and president of the National Honor Society at his school. He will attend Columbia University.

* Honorable mentions: Harib Hassan Ezaldein, Cardinal Gibbons; Miranda Hellman, Everglades; Emma Victoria Yates, North Broward Preparatory.

BUSINESS

MARK HUANG

CYPRESS BAY

Mark dedicates a lot of his time mentoring and tutoring students at the Broward Chinese School and advising students there who are headed to high school.

He created a basketball camp for students at the school. Registration fees for the basketball lessons helped raise money for another project that sends books to poor schools and villages of China.

Mark also founded the youth chapter of a local Chinese organization.

He's an active member of the Pembroke Pines Comets Swim Team and maintains a high grade-point average.

"His efforts in class reveal a student who works very hard," wrote one of his teachers, Eric Adzima.

* Honorable mentions: Myrhanda Karmarita Hogue, Hollywood Hills; Maxwell Phillip Kligerman, University School; Daniel Veingrad, Western.

MATHEMATICS

VICTORIA BENDER

SOUTH PLANTATION

As president of her school's National Honor Society chapter, Victoria oversees her classmates' work on other volunteer projects. She revamped the group's tutoring program, finding students who could be committed tutors and pairing them with classmates based on their strengths and weaknesses.

"She has permanently affected the tutoring program and helped the school's most needy children to achieve academic success," National Honor Society advisor Janie Duarte said.

Victoria also tutors students through the math honor society, Mu Alpha Theta, and raised more than $8,000 for the National Alliance for Autism Research.

* Honorable mentions: Robert William Moore Jr., Chaminade-Madonna; Marissa Mosteiro, South Broward; Joshua C. Roberts, University School.

SPEECH

REYAD ALLIE

CORAL SPRINGS

Passionate about debate, Reyad knows how important it is to be able to communicate well. So he spent hours volunteering his time to work with children who needed speech therapy, gaining the trust of kids who had been teased and embarrassed.

"Everyone in the world can make a difference in someone's life," Reyad said.

He is the president of his school's debate team and has won many state and national competitions. He's also Coral Springs High's first competitor in the Lincoln-Douglas tournament at Harvard University.

Reyad organizes events at his mosque's youth group and is an officer for his school's history honor society.

He is ranked third in his class.

* Honorable mentions: Pamela Brown, Pine Crest; Sara Magenheimer, St. Thomas Aquinas; Jodi Lynne Savitz, Nova.

JOURNALISM

PEDRO FALCI

AMERICAN HERITAGE

With images of the poverty in Argentina and Brazil in his mind, Pedro created the One Planet United club at his school. He used the club as a platform to discuss the need for unity and peace in the world and organized a shoe drive for the homeless.

Pedro writes for Teenlink, a student publication of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and has attended a summer program at Northwestern University's journalism school.

"He adores Superman. Besides the journalist alter ego, Pedro loves how Superman can help so many while being content to be Clark Kent," said Diana Adams, the school newspaper advisor. "I see this modesty in Pedro often."

* Honorable mentions: Jamie Alexander Daigle, Monarch; Casey Scharf, Coral Springs; Manuel Andres Serra-Jovenich, Chaminade-Madonna.

NEW MEDIA

MELANIE ANN DiPIETRO

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Melanie combined her love of history and television production to create a video history of the city of Plantation.

After about a year of volunteering at the Plantation Historical Museum, she learned that one of the women who ran a slide show and told the city's history could no longer do the job. So Melanie overcame her shyness to interview people for the video history.

She also set up a closed-circuit television station for students at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Miami Shores and trained students there in video production.

In the other areas of her life, including active roles in the Girl Scouts and the school water polo team, Melanie also has compiled and edited videos.

* Honorable mentions: Jacquese Canty, Flanagan; Alan Natochy, Plantation; Alissa Sneidman, Taravella.