Strafford Student Wins $20K NBC-10 Widener University Leadership Award

TREDYFFRIN, PA -- Matthew Rueter, a senior at Woodlynde School, a K-12 college-prep school for students with learning differences in Strafford, was recognized by NBC-10 and Widener University as a 2016 High School Leadership Award recipient, a news release states.

As one of several students selected for the award from schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, Rueter has the opportunity to attend a leadership conference at Widener University and a recognition breakfast at the National Constitution Center. He will also receive a $20,000 scholarship awarded over four years if he chooses to enroll at Widener University, according to a news release.

Each year, principals from schools across the Greater Philadelphia Region nominate one junior from their school for the award. Award recipients are then selected based on their leadership skills, academic excellence, and exceptional character shown through their participation in extracurricular activities, volunteer work, and demonstration of being a positive influence on their peers, the release states.

Rueter is the fifth Woodlynde student to win this award in recent years.

Located in Strafford, Woodlynde School is one of the region's oldest college prep schools for students in grades K through 12 with language- or math-based learning differences, ADD/ADHD, Auditory Processing Disorder, or Executive Function Disorder. Woodlynde's students gain access to caring experts in education, thrive in a nurturing environment, benefit from specialized teaching methods, rise to the challenge of a college prep curriculum, and emerge with the tools and self-confidence for success and happiness in college, career, and life.

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