Lucas G. del Rosario, a highschool senior at The IDEAL Faculty in Manhattan. He’s sporting his Boy Scouts uniform.
Picture by Milette Millington
Lucas G. del Rosario, a highschool senior at The IDEAL School in Manhattan, is of Filipino, Spanish and Italian descent. He additionally has Consideration-Deficit/Hyperactivity Dysfunction (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Dysfunction (ASD), and a Studying Incapacity (LD).
He has lived within the Higher East Aspect for 16 years together with his dad and mom and his brother. “There are a lot of nice individuals and parks within the neighborhood. There’s additionally a Filipino restaurant I like, and it’s additionally peaceable at night time,” del Rosario stated. He additionally loves Asian meals, and when he appears like consuming this delicacies, he goes to Flushing, Queens.
He has been a part of the Boys Scouts of America (BSA), now open to ladies, for 5 years. He credit the BSA as his best affect in his life and is within the technique of changing into an Eagle Scout, which he acknowledged as a really uncommon factor.
“As a member, I’ve accomplished a lot of group service and I’ve been a part of summer season camps. Expertise that I’ve discovered embody management and civil service,” stated del Rosario.
One other good factor he did was his Filipino American Historical past venture , which was a fundraiser for his church, the place he serves as a lector and altar server. It concerned a presentation and a dance that was a tribute to a part of his heritage.
As a member of his BSA troop, issues he’s presently doing embody “outside occasions, planting timber in Harlem, composting, and cleansing up park trails.” He plans to proceed serving, in addition to mentoring.
“Theater is my favourite topic at school, and it makes my coronary heart blissful,” he added. He has been finding out it on the faculty for 2 years.
He performed the lead position within the faculty adaptation of “Matilda” the musical, in addition to a personality in a Greek mythology play. As well as, he performed Troy within the faculty adaptation of “Excessive Faculty Musical.”
Based on del Rosario, faculty is his subsequent step in life. He’s particularly targeted on these with studying facilities, so he can get help when wanted on account of his disabilities. He plans to main in something alongside the traces of Media Research and Theater.
Some schools he’s contemplating attending embody Marist Faculty in Dutchess County, NY; Syracuse College in Syracuse, NY; St. Joseph’s Faculty in Brooklyn, NY; Boston College in Boston, MA; Drexel College in Philadelphia, PA; American College in Washington, D.C.; and George Mason College in Fairfax County, VA.
