Shown are OrthoWorx team member Erin Serafino, left, with the award recipient at Eisenhower Elementary, Alice Priser. Photo provided.

News Release

WARSAW — OrthoWorx has announced the recipients of the 2024 Peace Builder Awards that it sponsors at Warsaw Community Schools. The award was presented to one student at each of the Warsaw schools and acknowledges their empathy builder characteristics, aligning with Warsaw Community Schools’ values and furthering the OrthoWorx diversity initiatives.

The Peace Builder Award recognizes students who have shown outstanding citizenship and modeled the value of diversity through the willingness to accept and include fellow students and school staff. They have created a culture of helping other students thrive in value, self-esteem, self-worth, purpose, healthy relationships and leadership qualities. Embracing diversity aims to increase creativity and productivity, and to provide a welcoming environment for all people.

The award recognizes a student who has exemplified Warsaw Community Schools’ “Empathy Pillar” as they “acknowledge others’ feelings, emotions and experiences as valuable and as a result, all individuals understand, relate, and/or are moved to action by experience and perspectives outside their own.”

“These students recognize what results from a lack of empathy in themselves and others and know that they are at their best when they deeply understand others inside their classrooms, community and the larger world,” according to a news release from OrthoWorx.

OrthoWorx sponsors the award because it aligns with the organization’s mission of “fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment focused on sustained economic opportunity.”

The students who were acknowledged included:

• Landon Deatson, Leesburg Elementary
• Jadon Flamm, Jefferson Elementary
• Evan Goshert, Madison Elementary
• Alice Priser, Eisenhower Elementary
• Adelyn Rennhack, Lincoln Elementary
• Jarvish Sriram, Washington Elementary
• Qwincy Trumble, Claypool Elementary
• Lyla Jane Waddle, Harrison Elementary
• Aubrey Bricker, Lakeview Middle School
• Diya Patel, Edgewood Middle School
• Karolina Hummitch, Warsaw Community High School/Warsaw Area Career Center

OrthoWorx is an organization formed in 2009 with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. to serve as a connector for industry, education and the community. OrthoWorx was designed with the goal to make the region the best place for the orthopedic industry talent to grow and thrive.