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OrthoWorx announced the sponsorship of the 2025 Peace Builder Award at Warsaw Community Schools.
This award was presented to one student at each of the Warsaw Community Schools and acknowledges their empathy builder characteristics, aligning with Warsaw Community Schools’ values and furthers the OrthoWorx diversity initiatives, according to a news release from OrthoWorx.
The Peace Builder Award recognizes students that have shown outstanding citizenship and modeled the value of diversity through the willingness to accept and include fellow students and school staff. They have created a culture of helping other students thrive in value, self-esteem, self-worth, purpose, healthy relationships and leadership qualities. Embracing diversity increases creativity and productivity, providing a welcoming environment for all people, stated the release.
This award targets a student that has exemplified WCS’s empathy pillar as they “acknowledge others’ feelings, emotions, and experiences as valuable and as a result, all individuals understand, relate and/or are moved to action by experience and perspectives outside their own.” These students recognize what results from a lack of empathy in themselves and others and know that they are at their best when they deeply understand others inside their classrooms, community, and the larger world, stated the release.
“The Peace Builder Award honors a student who consistently demonstrates kindness, empathy and a commitment to resolving conflicts peacefully,” said Brooke Friedburg, talent director, OrthoWorx, “This individual leads by example, fostering a sense of inclusion and respect within their school and community.”
OrthoWorx sponsored this award as it aligns with their mission of “fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment focused on sustained economic opportunity.” Award recipients were chosen by the faculty and staff from their respective schools.
The students who have been acknowledged were Mason Weaver, Leesburg Elementary; Tanner Streasick, Jefferson Elementary; Sam Weaver, Madison Elementary; Natalie Schuman, Eisenhower Elementary; Charlee Gardner, Lincoln Elementary; Michael Haverstock, Washington Elementary; Trevor Maynard, Claypool Elementary; Paisley Dotson, Harrison Elementary; Anya Puthucode, Lakeview Middle School; Audrey Green, Edgewood Middle School; Kameron Kauffman, Warsaw Community High School/Warsaw Area Career Center; and Chase Dixon, Lakeland Christian Academy.
