Mercer Island High School students Connor Bernal and Edwina Choung have been named as the Rotary Islanders for the month of May. Both are National Honor Society members and Bridges leaders.

Bernal has been a captain of the MIHS varsity football and lacrosse teams for two years. He is also a Relay for Life participant. His volunteer activities include summer lacrosse and football camps, and church youth group events encouraging friendship among youth.

The son of Fernando Bernal and Kristen Black, he plans to play lacrosse at Michigan, Marquette, Rutgers, BYU, or play at Yale after a gap year.

Choung is the MIHS yearbook editor and Interact Club secretary. She is also a Senior Service Club member. This summer she plans to volunteer at Providence Marianwood Nursing Home. Her other activities have included volunteering at a Native American reservation in Montana, providing care for a disabled woman, and babysitting kids at her church during Sunday services.

The daughter of Soon and Han Choung, and a pianist since age 3, she intends to major in pre-med at the University of Washington in order to become a pediatrician. “I love children and want to do something meaningful with my life in the future,” she stated.