Judge senior is finalist for Prudential award

Andrew Scott, a senior at Judge Memorial Catholic High School, was presented with an engraved bronze medallion for selection as a Distinguished Finalist in the 2007 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program.

Scott, from Salt Lake City, was honored for collecting school supplies and winter clothing for children on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Globe, Ariz. He also spent a week volunteering on the reservation, working in the yards of elderly Apaches and helping to paint an elementary school.

The present took place May 21 during an awards ceremony at Judge Memorial.

All middle-level and high schools in the United States, along with all Girl Scout councils, county 4-H organizations, Red Cross chapters, YMCAs and Volunteer Centers, were eligible to make a nomination for a local Prudential Spirit of Community Award last November. State-level judges selected more than 7,500 local honorees and two state honorees for each state and the District of Columbia. They also selected distinguished finalists.

The awards program, which honors outstanding youth volunteers, is sponsored in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals and is part of a broad initiative created by Prudential Financial to encourage young people to serve their communities.

For information on this year's Prudential Spirit of Community State Honorees and Distinguished Finalists, visit www.prudential.com/spirit or www.principals.org/prudential.