Student of the Week Global Impact STEM Academy

Cheney Gross is the Student of the Week from Global Impact STEM Academy. CONTRIBUTED

Cheney Gross is the Student of the Week from Global Impact STEM Academy. CONTRIBUTED

Name: Cheney Gross

School: Global Impact STEM

Grade: 12

Age: 18

Extra-curricular: Football, Wrestling, full-time Wendy’s Manager

Words you live by: Seek self-improvement every day

Toughest challenge: managing school with extracurriculars

Biggest influence: Bricker Thiel

School-day rituals: practice Spanish and read

What’s on your bedroom walls: my weekly workout regimen

When I’m bored I like to: practice Spanish and spend time with my siblings

Favorite movie: Midway

Person who would play you in a movie: The Rock

Favorite musical artist: Five Finger Death Punch

Favorite book: “Economics in One Lesson” Hazlitt

Favorite home-cooked meal: Chicken Salad

Favorite restaurant: Wendy’s

Whose mind would you like to read: Alex Coleman

Place where you’d love to travel: Germany

Talent you’d like to have: Multilingualism

Favorite school subject: History

Something in the world I’d like to change: eliminate taxation everywhere

Favorite high school moment: When my football senior class and I went to West Virginia for the weekend to white-water raft

Favorite junk food: Kit Kats

Best thing about high school: The relationships I have with my peers and teachers who continually act so selflessly

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