The 2016-17 school year has been Kirsten Brown’s first and last in the Atlantic Community School District, as she went to Adair schools previously, and is graduating a year early. Brown plans to attend the University of Iowa to double major in biology and chemistry to get on the pre-med track. She has always aspired to be a doctor, because “my mom is in the medical field, so I wanted to do something like that.”

Brown has participated in dance and softball throughout high school, with dance being her favorite. Senior prom is both her favorite school memory and life event in her life thus far. If Brown could go back in time, she would go back to her freshman year so she could focus on her studies more.

Brown’s grandpa has been the most influential person in her life, and he is also her role model “because he always knows what to say, and he knows everything.”