Four NYC high schoolers, two teachers get honor of pressing the button for the New Year’s Eve ball drop

By Wes Parnell and Larry McShane, NY Daily News
December 28, 2019

This article features two of our CollegeBound Initiative alums.

Four city students well-versed in climate change will help drop the ball in Times Square on a New Year’s Eve with warmer than usual temperatures predicted.

High school seniors Ricardo Herrera, Diane Arevalo, Daniel Soto and Van Troy Ulloa and two of their teachers, Jared Fox and Aida Rosenbaum, were selected to press the ball drop button and launch the final countdown to 2020.

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