Beau Bakari Burgess

South Mecklenburg High School

Parents and Guardians: Derrick and Lillian Burgess

Extracurricular: School: Football Team; Prior to COVID: NAACP and Young Democrats; 

Community: South Charlotte Chapter, Jack and Jill of America, Inc: Served on the T-Shirt committee for Teen Conference 

Community Service:  Pre-COVID: Second Harvest, Crisis Ministry

Community Awards and Achievements: Although not an award but I view as an achievement, I am a part of the World Language program at South Mecklenburg and have been a part of a language immersion program since kindergarten.  This experience  has given me the opportunity to be completely fluent in the Spanish language.  I am both bilingual and bi-literate in Spanish.