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Teen hopes to make it to the White House

By Hugh Fort
21/ 5/2008

A Winnersh A-level student has been given the chance of a lifetime after he was selected to attend the inauguration of the next American president.

Daniel Priddy, of The Forest School, was picked to attend the University Presidential Inaugural Conference after taking part in the two-week Global Young Leaders Conference in Washington DC and New York.

But the 18-year-old, who is doing A-Levels in Histiry, Economics and Government and Politics, is struggling to pay for the $2,620 trip in November and has launched an appeal to find sponsorship.

- Read the full story in this week's Wokingham Times.


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