Rotary Student of the Month

Jan 22, 2024 6:30 PM
Andy Alkin of Lake Washington High School
Rotary Student of the Month
Andy Alkin is a senior at Lake Washington High School, and plans to major in economics in college so he can create new financial mechanisms and applications such as micro-loans and budget planning to help people, especially the underprivileged, to overcome financial challenges. Andy played Varsity Soccer all of his high school years, and plays in a band for which he writes original songs. Andy often volunteers in food drives, park cleanups, and youth camps. Andy’s family is from Ukraine, so when the war began he founded a non-profit, Youth Soccer for Peace. He mounted a "Soccer For Ukraine" campaign and hosted soccer bootcamps that are donation-based for local children and free for refugees. Earnings from the campaign are helping build a soccer field for an orphanage in Ukraine and helping local refugees.