Here's the winner of Rockford Register Star Student of the Week, May 6-10
Keith Country Day School's Alejandra Fonseca is this week's Rockford Register Star's Student of the Week.
More than 29,000 votes were cast, and Fonseca received 58% of the vote.
The Keith senior is a trilingual student who speaks English, Spanish and French. She is active in her school and in the community, volunteering at Summerfield Zoo, Burpee Museum and Midway Village. She will attend the University of Miami in the fall where she plans to major in neuroscience.
Other finalists were Auburn's Carrington Rae Autumn Weatherly, Boylan's Mason Caltagerone, and East's Veronica Marqauez Mejia.
Anyone wishing to nominate a high school student for Student of the Week can send an email to studentoftheweek@rrstar.com by 11 a.m. Friday. Be sure to include the student's name, age, grade in school, a list of academic and extracurricular achievements, a photo of the student and a few sentences about why that student deserves to be in Student of the Week.
A list of finalists for Student of the Week publishes online at rrstar.com on Mondays and in print in the Rockford Register Star on Tuesdays.
Readers can vote for who they think deserves the title of Student of the Week in our online poll. You can vote as many times as you want until 11 a.m. Thursday.
Winners are announced online Friday and in print on Sundays.
Chris Green is a Rockford Register Star general assignment reporter. He can be reached at 815-987-1241, via email at cgreen@rrstar.com and X @chrisfgreen.
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