Salman Siddiqi of Willowbrook High School’s Class of 2026 will address his classmates at the school’s 67th commencement ceremony, which will take place in the main gymnasium this Sunday, May 17. Willowbrook’s Class of 2026 includes more than 420 students. Siddiqi, who is pictured last week, is a resident of Villa Park. He was selected to speak at the ceremony based on his outstanding academic accomplishments. The title of his speech is “Still in Motion.” Previewing his speech, Siddiqi said he will talk about “navigating through high school and trying to do it all, while learning that balance is not a goal—it is a process—and how I learned this through my own struggles and mistakes.” Siddiqi said he hopes his speech will inspire his classmates to “dream big, fail a lot and don't be scared to try and go out of the norm. Make sure you give yourself leeway to fail, and learn from these failures; knowing that within all of us, there is a light and a spark that is waiting to be ignited.” Siddiqi plans to pursue a degree in computational biology at Stanford University.
