SPOTLIGHT: Teen helps abroad, excels at home

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Published December 14, 2012 11:55am ET
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SPOTLIGHT: Teen helps abroad, excels at home
In this Dec. 3, 2012 photo, Alex Baratta, 17, a senior at Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Ill., poses with some of the works of art that he brought back from his work in Ghana and other places overseas. Baratta spent part of the summer of 2012 in Hohoe, the capital of Ghana’s mountainous Volta region. He developed lesson plans and taught math and English to young students. He also led a team in creating an educational mural at a community school and volunteered at an orphanage. Alex hopes to one day bring his future engineering expertise to developing countries. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Mark Welsh) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, TV OUT | Mark Welsh

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Alex Baratta could be Nike’s trademark slogan personified.

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