Lyons Garden Club
Scholarship

Camden Paznokas

Camden will be attending Colorado State University, pursuing a degree in neuroscience with cognitive science, ethnobotany, and artificial intelligence concentrations.

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His ultimate goal is to improve our resolution of consciousness, artificial intelligence, and humanity’s relationship with nature to source sustainable, innovative, and enduring solutions to human, ecological, and technological problems.

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Camden plans to attend graduate school and
conduct independent research once reaching a more definitive career path during his undergraduate education.

Keara Ping

Keara will be attending Colorado State University, majoring in forestry and minoring in botany. She's lived in the mountains he entire life and found that she'd rather work outdoors than in an office. Keara loves spending time outside, finding it to be therapeutic as well.  She aims to work at a National Park while growing and research plants.

In addition to Keara's educational and professional pursuits, she likes skateboarding and volleyball, lettering in the latter her senior year. Moreover, she enjoys listening to music, plays the french horn and guitar, and earned The Director's Award For Band during her senior year.  She earned honors and silver starts in orchestra, as well as honors and gold stars in band.