Ten-year-old Trinity Stanley describes her cousin, Quincy N. Stanley, as “talented and smart, funny and creative, and when things get tough for me, he helps me”—an affirming statement by a younger relative that speaks volumes of character and family bond.
Soft-spoken and slender, Quincy, 14, a freshman at Pittsburgh Allderdice High School, is all these things and much more. To begin, he was the first student from Pittsburgh Langley K-8, located in West End, to receive the Ben Carson Scholarship.
He’s in the pre-engineering program, is a participant in the Gateway Medical Society mentoring program, “Journey to Medicine,” and has a strong interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) classes. Though the school year has been under way only a little more than two months, his progress reports already show a 4.0 average—all As for his first year in high school.
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