At Rice University on September 12, 1962, the late President John F. Kennedy proclaimed that "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." One student leader's ambition encapsulates this philosophy. Indeed, youth leadership is a force to be reckoned with. A starstruck youth leader who presents himself as an uncompromising, prestigious firepower is Lander Gonzalez, a junior at Alief ISD's Alief Early