"It’s really easy to start chasing something before you even know what it actually means, right?"
When Vaibhav Bhaskar was in fifth grade, his teacher asked the class to come up with alliterations to put on their name tags: Brilliant Bob, Kind Kailey.
Bhaskar, 17, remembered being stuck. His teacher told him to go with Valedictorian Vaibhav.
He remembered writing the words down.
“It was so big on my name tag, but I didn’t even know what it meant,” he said. “It’s really easy to start chasing something before you even know what it actually means, right?”
So began a quest that landed this year’s Steinbrenner High School valedictorian an 11.99 grade point average, believed to be the highest in school history, and likely a district and state record.
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