Bradyn Anderson tapped BW Board’s Student-Citizen of Month

By GARY HENERY

News Man­ag­ing Editor

Bra­dyn Ander­son, an eighth-grade stu­dent at Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School, was hon­ored as the Big Wal­nut Board of Education’s Student-Citizen of the Month at Mon­day night’s Board meeting.

Bra­dyn is the son of Angela and Ben Ander­son. He has two younger sis­ters, Jes­sica, who is in the sixth grade at Big Wal­nut Inter­me­di­ate School, and Riley, who is in the third grade at Gen­eral Rose­crans Ele­men­tary School.

Bradyn’s favorite classes are Math­e­mat­ics and Tech­nol­ogy. He is an avid reader and loves com­put­ers. Out­side the class­room, his activ­i­ties include play­ing full­back on the BWIS eighth-grade foot­ball team and soc­cer mudding.

Teach­ers at BWIS all have high praise for Bradyn.

Ed Kitchen calls Bra­dyn his “Go To” stu­dent in his Tech­nol­ogy class.

“I have had the plea­sure of hav­ing Bra­dyn in my Tech class this nine weeks. His skill level in Tech­nol­ogy for his age is excep­tional,” Ed Kitchen said. “Bra­dyn excels at most of the work that we do and is the ‘go to’ stu­dent in our class. He offers to help other stu­dents when they strug­gle on any com­puter issues … and does it very well. Bra­dyn has even helped me with var­i­ous tech issues in the build­ing this year and has done a won­der­ful job.”

Scott Crow­der, Eighth Grade Math­e­mat­ics, says Bra­dyn brings a pos­i­tive atti­tude to class every day.

“I would like to rec­og­nize Bra­dyn for bring­ing a pos­i­tive atti­tude to class every day,” Crow­der said. “I know teenagers have bad days and strug­gles, but with Bra­dyn you would never see it because he enters our class­room each day with a smile, a laugh to share with oth­ers, or a warm wel­come. His demeanor should act as a model for how peo­ple should embrace the pos­i­tives in life.”

Mike McGann, Eighth Grade Lan­guage Arts, says Bra­dyn reflects the val­ues of Big Walnut.

“When we mid­dle school teach­ers were made aware of our duty to select a Stu­dent of the Month for Octo­ber, I imme­di­ately knew who I would select — Bra­dyn Ander­son. Hav­ing taught in this dis­trict for 11 years, I can tell you with con­vic­tion that Bra­dyn is the epit­ome of all that rep­re­sents Big Wal­nut,” McGann said. “We recently read The Out­siders in class and Bradyn’s lit­er­a­ture cir­cle group became the model for other stu­dents to observe. He con­sis­tently led dis­cus­sions with engag­ing ques­tions, but more impor­tantly, he led by exam­ple. Bra­dyn encour­aged every stu­dent to par­tic­i­pate by giv­ing their insight, and their input was val­ued. Bra­dyn inspires appre­hen­sive stu­dents to take risks; he inspires winded ath­letes to fin­ish strong; he inspires teach­ers to stretch the under­stand­ing of the district’s mis­sion to inspire and guide each stu­dent to his or her max­i­mum poten­tial … Bra­dyn Ander­son is Big Walnut.”

Heather Rea, Eighth Grade Lan­guage Arts, calls Bra­dyn “extremely polite and helpful”.

“Bra­dyn shows an eager­ness to learn and under­stand, ask­ing rel­e­vant and thought­ful ques­tions dur­ing class,” she said. “He is extremely polite and is help­ful to his fel­low students.”

Coun­selor Corry Schull calls Bra­dyn “A deserv­ing and excep­tional young man”.

“I have known Bra­dyn as his coun­selor for most of the past six years. In that time I have only expe­ri­enced him as respect­ful and pos­i­tive young man. He would ask how I was doing before I could ask him,” she said. “ He has been through his share of ‘life’ and seems to be weath­er­ing the ups and downs in an ‘up’ man­ner. Bra­dyn is a deserv­ing and excep­tional young man!”

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