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Arkaprabha Kolay will major in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Arkaprabha Kolay will major in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Apr 25, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We are pleased to announce that GFF Alumnus Arkaprabha Kolay will graduate from CCHS in May. He will then attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign next fall, where he will major in Electrical Engineering.

GFF Alumnus Rea Yoh graduates from Brown University with honors.

GFF Alumnus Rea Yoh graduates from Brown University with honors.

Apr 18, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We are excited to report that GFF Alumnus Rea Yoh will graduate with honors from Brown University on May 29th with a double major in Biology and Science, Technology and Society.

Minseo “Emily” Jung will major in Economics at the University of Chicago next fall.

Minseo “Emily” Jung will major in Economics at the University of Chicago next fall.

Apr 8, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We are proud to announce that GFF Alumnus Minseo “Emily” Jung has been accepted at the University of Chicago where she will continue her studies in Economics, Data Science, and Music.

Yoonseo Jung wins First Place for Public Speaking at FBLA State Leadership Conference

Yoonseo Jung wins First Place for Public Speaking at FBLA State Leadership Conference

Apr 4, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

Last summer, Yoonseo attended a GFF sponsored Number Theory course at Stanford University. Since then, the multi-talented Yoonseo has been keeping busy with her math studies and participating in music competitions.

Alexander Brown Wins National Medal at Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Alexander Brown Wins National Medal at Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Mar 24, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

Congratulations to GFF alumnus Alexander Brown who has been named a national medal winner in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. This places Alex in the top 1% of all entries nationwide.

Michelle Wang Wins the State Illinois Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Michelle Wang Wins the State Illinois Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Mar 22, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We’re so happy to share that Michelle has won the State Illinois Junior Science and Humanities Symposium for her research. This is her third time winning the award, but it will be her first opportunity to attend Nationals and present her research in person.

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus
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