The Daniel and Jason Stevenson
Extracurricular Achievement Award
This award was established in 1997 and is named
after two 1990s Hudson graduates, Daniel and Jason Stevenson.
Daniel C. Stevenson
Dan graduated from Hudson High School in 1993. His extracurricular science projects resulted in his recognition as a top 40 finalist in the prestigious Westinghouse/Intel (now Regeneron) science competition for high school students. His favorite class in Hudson was “Turbo Trig” (pre-calculus) and his fondest memory is when a rotten watermelon exploded in the old high school library (part of an elaborate math project).
Dan majored in Physics at MIT and went to graduate school at the MIT Media Lab. He started and sold his own software company, and he now works for Microsoft as an project director in Seattle, Wash., where he lives with his wife and two children.
Jason R. Stevenson
Jason graduated from Hudson High School in 1996 after spending all 13 years within the Hudson school district. As a high school student, Jason organized several political and social action campaigns and worked at the Learned Owl Book Shop.
Jason graduated from Harvard University and spent a graduate fellowship year at Scotland's University of Edinburgh studying the history of the Second World War. After working for two years as an economic development consultant, Jason switched to journalism and became a staff editor at Outside and Backpacker magazines. As a freelance writer, he authored
Outdoor Adventure Guides: Backpacking and Hiking in 2020, which is the 2nd edition of a prior how-to guide to outdoor adventure that he authored in 2010.
Jason currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is active in local politics and works as the policy director for Planned Parenthood of Utah. He and his wife Jackie, a family physician, have three children.