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The honor of Academic All-Star usually goes to one deserving candidate. But, at the International School in Eden Prarie, we found three kids who made picking just one an overwhelming task.

Candidate #1 Nada Batu came to America from a family of educators in Mongolia. While aspiring for a career in neuroscience, Nada carries a 4-point-plus GPA, and is a member of the National Honor Society. She volunteers at a hospital and a nursing home, speaks multiple languages, sings in multiple school choirs, plays two instruments, and somehow finds time to perform with the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony.

Says Nada, "I don't think you can get anywhere without the basis of, you know, book-learning and the knowledge so, and the music just accents that because it just makes your life better."

Candidate #2 is Sara Haik.

Sarah's an accomplished artist who also carries a 4-point-plus GPA and owns a spot in NHS. Sarah also sings in multiple choirs, plays the flute, volunteers at her church, is multi-lingual, and served as team leader for the school's first-ever robotics team.

"I don't like just focusing on just one thing", says Sarah. "But, when I do focus on that one thing I like understanding why that is. Like, why it works that way, or why it doesn't if I'm wrong."

One of Sarah's teammates on the robotics team is Candidate #3, Charlie Mackenzie-Smith. Yet another 4-point plus, NHS member and A.P. scholar, Charlie takes time to tutor other students, plays on the varsity soccer team, and says building the robot helped focus his desire to someday become a mechanical engineer.

Charlie says, "I've always liked taking things apart and figuring out how they work and I've never been able to actually put something back together so, now I actually made something."

Taken together, this trio makes an academic collection where the sum is actually greater than the impressive individual parts.