The 17 year-old, who was selected as Youth of the Year by the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Western Reserve, said he does not want to be anyone except himself. “It is always better to be an original than to be a copy,” Davontre said. The Bud Rogers Youth of the Year contest, a program sponsored by Covelli Enterprises, recently sent Cohen to Troy, Mich. to compete against nine other Youth of the Year winners from Boys & Girls Clubs throughout Ohio.

In February, I received the Whitney M. Young Award from the Laurel Highlands Council, Scoutreach Division of the Boy Scouts of America. I am thrilled by the honor, but it has also prompted me to think about the social role and responsibility of businesses.