One of our incredible alumna as well as a 5-year team member of College Summit Colorado is celebrated.

This is for you who privately despair or publicly wail that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Call it an antidote. Or rather, antidotes:

Theron Guerra. Brandon Zinn. Sierra Morales. Gamachu Said. Sarah Kafader. Matthew Daisley. Peter Stahl.

They're high school students competing for the Daniels Fund scholarship. To that list, I could add another 572 semifinalists. But these are seven I met last week. They came in one after another and proceeded to leave Realtor John Todd, catering manager Greg Hencmann and me marveling and, dare I say it, hopeful.