Kalamazoo’s success featured in MTV video on graduation day challenge

Kalamazoo Central’s 2010 salutatorian, Simon Boehme, is featured in a White House video promoting this year’s Race To The Top High School Commencement Challenge.

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports the video shows Boehme chatting with President Barak Obama in the White House library about last year’s competition, which was won by Kalamazoo Central.

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Now a University of Michigan freshman, Boehme led the group of students who put together K-Central’s application last spring for the White House contest. As class salutatorian, Boehme also shared the stage with Obama at Central’s commencement ceremony.

Boehme said he got a call last month from MTV asking if he would be participate in a video about the 2011 contest. “I said, ‘Of course,’ ” Boehme said.

Two weeks ago, he was flown to Washington, D.C. for the taping. Half of the video shows Boehme standing outside the White House and talking about the competition. The other half of the video is with Obama.

The 98-second video and an extended version were posted on the White House website.

For more about the visit with President Obama, read the rest of the story.

Source: Kalamazoo Gazette