Bondy Intermediate School student Brandon Kafarela has been selected to participate in Education in Action’s summer 2008 Lone Star Leadership Academy program.

Kafarela’s selection for the Lone Star Leadership Academy was based on his demonstrated academic success and leadership ability, an educator recommendation and involvement in school/community activities. Kafarela will be an eighth grader at the start of the 2008-2009 school year in August.
 
During the weeklong residential Lone Star Leadership Academy programs, selected students join delegations of other distinguished students from across the state to develop leadership skills while learning facts about Texas.  Participants experience what they are learning in school through visits to historically, politically, scientifically and environmentally significant sites including the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District and Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, the offices of their state legislators, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, bat watching on the Lone Star Riverboat and a Cowboy Cookout and NASA, the Houston Ship Channel, San Jacinto Battleground Monument and Moody Gardens.  Career speakers introduce participants to a wide variety of unique career and internship opportunities.