Pleasant Valley High School senior Tyler Moore has received two notable recognitions recently.

Moore is one of two students selected to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate Program in March and has been chosen as a candidate for the 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.

Moore will join Sen. Robert Casey and Sen. Patrick Toomey in representing the state and will participate in a delegation of 104 students from across the country for the 59th annual USSYP Washington Week. The event will be held virtually from March 14 to 17, due to the pandemic.

The students are nominated by teachers and selected by their state department of education and Department of Defense Education Activity. The chief state school officer for each jurisdiction confirms the final selection. This year’s Pennsylvania delegates and alternates were designated by Noe Ortega, acting Secretary of Education.

During the event, the student delegates will attend online meetings and briefings with senators, the president, a justice of the Supreme Court, leaders of cabinet agencies and senior members of the national media, among others.

Moore is the senior class president at Pleasant Valley High School and president of his school’s Future Business Leaders of America chapter. He is also the region treasurer for FBLA, and an active volunteer with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of the Greater Lehigh Valley Area. He is currently trying to raise $70,000 for a research grant in memory of his friend, Schyler Herman.

Moore also has been selected as one of more than 4,500 candidates in the 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Candidates were selected from nearly 3.6 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools this year.

The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 by executive order of the president to recognize distinguished graduating seniors for their academics accomplishments.

Over the years, the program has expanded to include the arts and career and technical education fields. Candidates are also selected on the basis of their leadership qualities, strong character and involvement in community and school activities.

About 600 students are selected as semifinalists in early April, and up to 161 are chosen as finalists in May. If circumstances permit, then the finalists will be invited to Washington, D.C., in June for the National Recognition Program, featuring various events and enrichment activities and culminating in the presentation of the Presidential Scholars Medallion during a White House-sponsored ceremony.

After graduation, Moore plans to major in political science or government at either Georgetown University, Stanford University or the University of Michigan. He is the son of Matthew and Nicole Moore of Brodheadsville.