March 19, 2007

Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu

Tom Harrington and Tyler Sabin
named to All-Washington Academic Team

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Bellevue Community College students Tom Harrington and Tyler Sabin, both of Renton, have been named to the 2007 All-Washington Academic Team. Sabin is ranked third overall on the 62-member team.

The team will be honored by Governor Chris Gregoire at ceremonies in Olympia March 22.

Recognizing the best and brightest community and technical college students in the state, the All-Washington Academic Team is a project of Phi Theta Kappa international honor society and the American Association of Community Colleges.

A former intern for Rep. Dave Reichert and a member of Model UN, Harrington plans a career in government or international service.

His extensive volunteer work – through Americorps, Rotaract, UNICEF, student government and Phi Theta Kappa, of which he is chapter co-president – has produced substantial results: books for schools in Africa, computers for schools in Bulgaria and support for hurricane victims and local food banks.

An Iraq war veteran, Harrington previously won the Horatio Alger Association Distinguished American Military Scholar Award.

He is a 2001 graduate of Edmonds-Woodway High School in Edmonds.

A dedicated volunteer, Sabin is involved in a wide range of service work including tutoring, fund-raising, organizing campus issues discussions and leading Phi Theta Kappa as chapter co-president.

He has personally mentored more than a dozen fellow students and helped to build from scratch an ongoing volunteer-recruitment program to aid the poor, elderly and homeless.

Sabin earned his high school diploma in 2005 as a home-schooled student.

Each member of the All-Washington Academic Team receives $750 in scholarships funded by Northwest Education Loan Association (NELA) and KeyBank.

As the third-ranking scholar on the team, Sabin will receive an additional $1,000 scholarship from the Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges.

Team members also will be offered further scholarships from many of the state’s public and private four-year colleges.

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