Brooklynn Warner wins Tangipahoa's African American Honorary Service Award
Brooklynn’s accomplishments in and out of school are outstanding and she personifies the award. She will be honored Saturday, Feb. 24 at 10 a.m., at the Amite Library Branch.
“This year we had a record number of very impressive young people nominated for the award,” said Tangipahoa Parish Library Director Barry Bradford as he announced the high school 2024 African American Honorary Service Award Recipient: Brooklyn Warner.
“Brooklynn’s accomplishments in and out of school are outstanding and she personifies the award,” Bradford said. She will be honored Saturday, Feb. 24 at 10 a.m., at the Amite Library Branch, along with other nominees.
A Hammond High Magnet School Freshman, Warner was nominated by Brenna Rushing who said, “I first met Brooklynn a few years ago while substituting at her school. I could see a sparkle in her but did not get the pleasure of getting to know her more until I became one of her volleyball coaches. I became immediately impressed by the way she carried herself and I even wanted her to take my daughter under her wing!”
Warner is currently enrolled in The International Baccalaureate® program with a 4.0 grade point average at Hammond High.
She is a member of the Hammond High Volleyball Team, Beta Club, Newspaper Club, Year Book Club, Torbotics Team, the Girl Scouts, Hammond Air Show, Keep Hammond Beautiful and the Beauty and Brains 7th and 8th Grade FLL Challenge Robotics Team.
Warner created a free supply closet at Hammond Eastside for students who are going through rough times do not ever have to worry about going without school supplies. She was able to secure and raise enough funding to supply over $2,000 in free school supplies such as pencils, pens, loose leaf paper, headphones, binders, calculators, folders, notebooks, highlighters, and so much more. The undertaking of this project was funded by her outreach to the community and her hand making and selling air fresheners to fund this service project.
During May 2023, Warner and her fellow Beauty and Brains robotics team participated in a month-long service a-thon. They spent their first weekend in Hammond cleaning up the city partnering with Keeping Hammond Beautiful, the second week the girls spent their weekend at The Phoenix in Hammond playing bingo and hosting a game day with the senior citizens, the third week the hosted a read aloud at the Hammond library for young children, and wrapped up their month long journey organizing and packing up meal bags for the community with Beacon Light Church.
Throughout Girl Scouts, Warner has participated in many service events including - collecting and organizing toys for children in foster care, pet supplies drive for the animal shelters, collected comfort items for the women in the domestic violence shelters, coat drive for the students at DC Reeves Elementary school, caroling and game nights at various nursing homes, supply drives for victims of Hurricane Ida, adopted a local family for Christmas, many years of Operation Christmas child boxes, food drives for the local food pantries, collected Christmas gifts for the local elderly, participated and multiple back to school cleanups, community cleanups and so much more. She averages roughly 40 hours of service each year through Girl Scouts alone. Since she is entering her 10th year of scouting, Warner has easily obtained more than 400 service hours just through Girl Scouting.
Warner plans to graduate as a full IB Diploma graduate in 2027 while she continues to increase her knowledge in robotics. Her college goals are to obtain a perfect ACT score of 36 and to be accepted into MIT or LSU to pursue a degree in Computer / Software engineering. After graduating college, she hopes to land and begin an engineering career with Google or NASA
By DrumBeats News Service.