Daniel Berlin was chosen for his service and leadership qualities as the December Chagrin Valley Rotary Club Student of the Month...
Rotary Student of the Month
Daniel Berlin was chosen for his service and leadership qualities as the December Chagrin Valley Rotary Club Student of the Month. He has been a National Merit semifinalist and recognized as an AP Scholar with Distinction. He also was given the Chagrin Falls High School Honors with Distinction, named a United States Presidential Scholar nominee and was the AP English Student of the Year for 2015-16. He has also won several awards for his leadership skills including the Frank Phillips Tiger Award for Excellence for 2015-2016 and the USGA-AJGA President’s Leadership Award for 2016.
His AP classes include: AP US History, AP US Government, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics 1, AP Computer Science, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP English Language, AP English Literature and AP Spanish.
When Daniel is not working hard in his classes, he is active in many extracurricular activities. He was the student council class vice president from 2013-2016 and is the currently the student council executive vice president. He is a member of Key Club and orchestra.
Outside of school, he is president of the LifeAct Youth Advisory Board, a LifeAct board liaison, a part of the AJGA Leadership Links Fundraiser since 2014, and an instructor for the Open Doors Academy Summer Program. He also takes private piano lessons.
Daniel is active in sports as a member of the varsity tennis team and the captain of the varsity golf team. Daniel has won several awards for his golf talents, including runner-up state champion of the OHSAA State Golf Championship in 2014, state qualifier for Golf 2014-2016, first team All-Ohio in 2014, first team All-CVC and All-NEO for 2013-2016 and MVP Chagrin Valley Conference 2015 and 2016.
His musical achievements include the Carnegie Hall Solo Performance: Golden Classical Music Awards in New York for 2016, the Elise Strupp Award from the Ohio Federation of Music for the Grand Gold Cup for Piano and he has been a semifinalist in the Cincinnati World Piano Competition from 2009-2013.
Daniel was recognized at a recent Chagrin Valley Rotary Club meeting.
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Daniel Berlin
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Chagrin Valley Rotary Club donates dictionaries each year to all the third-graders at Gurney Elementary School. The students use these dictionaries for word study and writing. They are able to keep their dictionaries and use them throughout their Chagrin school career.
