JAB Member Featured – Meet 10 Westport, Weston and Wilton Teens to Watch 2025

Bruce Matos is one of those students whose accomplishments would fit more comfortably into a book, not a page. The rising senior was awarded AP Scholar With Honors his junior year, when his course load included four APs. He is an Eagle Scout, a black belt in Kung Fu, founder/president of the HOSA Health Professionals Club at WHS, Secretary-General of Model UN, and still has energy to run 300 meter hurdles on the track team.

“I joined Scouting in first grade, and it has shaped who I’ve become,” says Matos, “In eighth grade, I discovered the Joshua’s Heart Foundation (JHF). What excited me is that it isn’t just an organization helping to fight food insecurity, it is also youth led. The first time I joined one of JHF’s weekly calls, I got to hear students my age not just volunteering, but leading, brainstorming and being trusted and encouraged to drive change.”