Syosset Senior Earns UN Association Award For Community Service

Syosset NY

04 June, 2021

12:06 PM

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SYOSSET, NY — Syosset High School senior Angela Mao has earned a National Community Service Honor Award from the United Nations Association for an outstanding 441 hours of volunteer service this year. Mao, who will be attending Stanford University in the fall, was specifically recognized forher special dedication to delivering impact toward the United Nations' Global Goal ofResponsible Consumption and Production. She has interned for Clear Blue Sea, a nonprofit organization with the mission to fightplastic pollution in the oceans, and she is also a sustainability researcher at One Community, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating open-source resources and solutions for all aspectsof sustainable living. Mao is a member of the Syosset High School Environmental Group, an active member of the Long Island Sierra Club and has volunteered most weekends to remove invasive plants from Carpenter Park since 2019. She has also organized water conservation events through Charity:Water, and writes for the Sierra Club's newsletter "Sustain the Mag" and for youth pusblishing platform INKspire.