Chad Agrawal’s fellow students elected the West Nyack resident to be their Student Representative on the Rockland Community College Board of Trustees for the 2008-09 academic year.

Agrawal, 18, is an early admissions student from Clarkstown South High School and lives in West Nyack. He’s studying business finance and economics and is vice president of the Speech and Debate Team and president of the Alpha Beta Gamma International Business Honors Society. He’s also involved in the Student Activities Board and was a senator his freshman year, when he created a Student Alumni Mentoring System.

This summer, he’s enrolled at the Summer Institute in Business & Technology sponsored by the Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He hopes to transfer there in Fall 2009.

“I feel this position enables me to make a difference in my community. I am happy to have received the opportunity to represent my fellow students and uphold the responsibility to make their lives on campus the best it can possibly be,” Agrawal said in a release.

Agrawal, who took his seat on the board June 2, also is an Eagle Scout in Troop 42 of West Nyack. For his Eagle Scout project, RCC officials said in a release, “he installed hedges spelling the letters ‘RCC’ in front of the Rockland Community College Technology Center on the main campus.”

Photo courtesy of RCC.