Meet the 2018 True Inspiration Award Winners
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Between working full-time and going to school full-time, Chick-fil-A team member Abby LaFave also volunteers as a cheerleading coach for a local non-profit organization — and the college sophomore still managed to stay on the Dean’s List during her freshman year.
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Growing up, Samantha Fullmer wasn’t exactly sure where she fit in. That is, until she discovered robotics. For six years, she competed nationally with her local robotics team, earning more than a dozen awards and making new friends along the way.
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Ezra Pugliano’s love for Chick-fil-A started as an elementary school student, when he first helped his mom sell Chicken Biscuits to raise money for the parent-teacher association.
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Chick-fil-A team member Nathan Kelly is loud and passionate about everything he does — and, he’ll be the first to admit, his boisterous personality has led to a few bumps in the road during his teenage years.
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Adopted at age 16, Ilona Penner left her native Ukraine — and the orphanage where she’d lived for five years — for a chance at a new life, and an education, in the U.S.
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A third-generation immigrant, Meghan Ziegler was always taught to work hard. She applied this lesson early on, when she struggled to learn to read in elementary school, and she continues to apply it today — both as a team member working at the Chick-fil-A in Greenwood, Ind., and as a college student studying Marketing and Supply Chain Management.
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