Zach Carrier is a senior at Calhoun High School in Calhoun.  In 2006, Zach founded the Gordon County Teen Republicans in 2006.  That same year, while battling a long term illness that kept him home from school for half his sophomore year, he was elected to the board of the Georgia Teen Republicans and served as the North Vice Chairman.  He later co-found the National Association of Teen Republicans and later became deputy executive director of the ARCHES PAC Project, which aims to place a Republican Club in every high school in the U.S.