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PLATTEVILLE - University of Wisconsin-Platteville junior Justin Horacek is one of three students nationwide to receive a $2,000 outstanding leadership scholarship from the Society of Physics Students (SPS).

Horacek, an engineering physics major from Abbotsford, is a longtime active SPS member. He recently represented the upper midwest region at a national SPS meeting in Washington, D.C.

"I have been a member of the UWP chapter of SPS since I arrived at Platteville and have been involved with many of our chapter's activities including a canoe building project. One of the canoes is going to be built for future SPS canoe trips and the other was already built to fund our chapter's annual leadership scholarship," Horecek said in a SPS biography. "I attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville because of their rigorous physics program and their reputation as an exceptional engineering school."

In addition to his work with SPS, Horecek tutors students in mathematics, and has been involved in fundraising activities for the FFA Alumni and charity work for the Salvation Army. He is also member of Sigma Pi Sigma.

After graduation from UWP, Horecek is considering attending graduate school in the area of medical physics. He is the son of Jerome and Bonita Horacek of Abbotsford.