Scholarships recognize community service, academic performance and leadership skills
Comcast NBCUniversal today announced that it has awarded approximately $97,000 in scholarships for the 2017-18 school year to 88 New Jersey students as part of its annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program. The program, funded by the Comcast Foundation, recognizes the best and brightest high school seniors for their community service, academic performance and leadership skills.
"Our Leaders and Achievers Scholarship winners exemplify leadership and are committed to academic excellence and community service," said Stephanie Kosta, Comcast Regional Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs. "We are honored to recognize their achievements, and excited to support them as they continue their educational journeys."
Comcast, joined by New Jersey's Commissioner of Education Kimberley Harrington, recognized the students at a special event held at the Trenton War Memorial. The 88 recipients each received $1,000 scholarships. One student, Jacob Bauldock, a resident of Willingboro, and student at Burlington County Institute of Technology, was selected to receive a $10,000 Comcast Founders Scholarship -- instituted in honor of Ralph J. Roberts, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Comcast Corporation. In total, Comcast awarded $97,000 worth of scholarships in New Jersey this year. After a prize drawing, 10 students also received Samsung Galaxy tablets for use at college.
"Student leaders and achievers are incredibly important to the conversation around education. The leaders and achievers we celebrate today bring not only their accomplishments, but their student voice to this conversation on education. The most critical voice, which these students show, is the voice of the heart. These students demonstrate how you reach out to someone who is in need of a voice they may not have, and also how you give back and serve your community in ways that are more than academic," said New Jersey Commissioner of Education Kimberley Harrington.
The Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program provides scholarships to students who strive to achieve their full potential, who are catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are involved in their schools, and who serve as models for their fellow students. The philosophy behind the program is to give young people every opportunity to prepare for the future and to engage them in their communities. The program also demonstrates the importance of civic involvement, and the value placed on civic involvement by the business community.
This year, the program will award more than $2 million in scholarships to more than 2,000 students across the country to help them pursue higher education. Visit here to learn more.
Scholarship recipients (by county where student resides):
Atlantic
- Austyn Mingo-Crockett, Atlantic City High School
- Ella Glenn, Egg Harbor Township High School
- Jeffrey Palermo, Absegami High School
- Matthew Espstein, Mainland Regional High School
- Lucie Pham, Oakcrest High School
- Tommy Liang, Atlantic County Institute of Technology
- Destiny Brooks, Charter Tech High School Performing Art
Bergen
- Nina Delgado, Wallington Jr/Sr High School
Burlington
- Cynthia Nguyen, Camden Catholic High School
- John Conville, Cinnaminson High School
- Kelsey Raymond, Northern Burlington Co Regional High School
- Kathleen Garcia, Florence Township Memorial High School
- Kristen Kreutzberg, Notre Dame High School
- Brian Christopher Matheis, Rancocas Valley Regional High School
- Hannah M Lloren, Palmyra High School
- Jacob M Bauldock, Burlington County Institute Of Technology
- Ayoola Ogunyimika, Willingboro High School
Camden
- Madisen Harvey, Audubon High School
- Luis Ruben Acevedo, Camden Academy Charter High School
- Julie Pham, Charles E. Brimm Medical Arts School
- Aaditi Tamhankar, Cherry Hill High School West
- Krunal Desai, Timber Creek Regional HS
- Olivia Craig, St Joseph Regional High School
- Marisol Smith, Lindenwold High School
- Asia Davis, Pennsauken High School
- Sam Tran, Camden County Technical School - Gloucester Township
- Minseo Bae, Eastern Senior High School
Cape May
- Emma Carlson, Middle Township High School
- Mackenzie McCracken, Wildwood High School
Cumberland
- Julian Allen, Millville Senior High School
- Madison Hagerty, Our Lady of Mercy Academy
Essex
- Craig Jackowski, Belleville High School
- Magdalena Botrous, Mount Saint Dominic Academy
- Jamila Osborne, East Orange Campus High School
- Rardnina Brown, Immaculate Conception High School
- Elissa M Bonilla, James Caldwell High School
Gloucester
- Catherine Ann Copeland, Clayton High School
- Jacelynn Duranceau, Gloucester City Junior-Senior High School
- Pierce Burgin, Clearview Regional Sr High School
- Samuel Giordano, Paulsboro High School
- Nicholas Franchi, Pitman High School
- Robert Minnick, Washington Township High School 11-12 Bldg
- Jaclyn Jennings, Gloucester Co. Inst. Of Technology
- Anjelai Hayes, Woodbury Junior - Senior High School
- Neil Sheridan, Gateway Regional High School
Hudson
- Yasmin Chahir, Harrison High School
- Charlee Gonzalez, Hudson Catholic Regional High School
- Christina Keroles, William L Dickinson High School
- Alondra Jazmin Collado, Lincoln High School
- Krystal Cohen, Dr. Ronald McNair Academic High School
- Nicole Padilla, Liberty High School
- Aolanie Vargas, St Dominic Academy
- Luc-Paul Adams, Henry Snyder High School
- Robert Kimelman, Secaucus High School
Hunderdon
- William Q Cleverley, North Hunterdon High School
- Christian T Meyer, Voorhees High School
Mercer
- Jesse Nana Amankwaah, Ewing High School
- Anthony Tomaselli, Mcvs Sypek Center Vocational School
- Cameron Consiglio, Franklin High School
- Emily Jaruszewski, McVs Assunpink Center
- Malay Trivedi, West Windsor/Plainsboro High School South
Middlesex
- Lachelle Dufresne, Carteret High School
- Meshaal Bannerman, Colonia High School
- Charu Arya, JFK Memorial High School
- Kaothar Oladoja, Woodbridge High School
Monmouth
- Christine Pobega, Raritan High School
- Miller Corrigan, Christian Brothers Academy
- Jacob A Yatvitskiy, High Technology HS
- Laura E Demytrk, Long Branch High School
- Robert T Lynch, Mater Dei Prep
Ocean
- Damaris-Lydia Odebode, Performing Arts Academy
- Haley Milner, Manchester Township HS
- Daniel Herrington, Point Pleasant Boro High School
- Daniel Earl Gural, Toms River High School South
- Megan Brutko, Ocean County Vocational Technical School
- Brooke Sobieski, Msgr. Donovan High School
- Michael Skrable, Toms River High School North
Salem
- Michael Haney, Arthur P. Schalick High School
- Destiny Green, Salem High School
Somerset
- Ajay Gandhi, Hillsborough High School
- Yanqing Liang, North Plainfield High School
Union
- Katherine Pedini, Governor Livingston High School
- Matthew Gallo, Arthur L. Johnson High School
- Johnathan Torres, Rahway High School
- Imani Bell, Roselle Park High School
- Claire O'Brien, Union Catholic Regional High School
- MaeKenzi Dixon, Union County Vocational Technical School
- Enmanuel Minaya, Union High School
This item submitted by Alexandra Wachman for Comcast.