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Honors: Anderson County commissioners award $500 scholarship

Posted at 12:49 am July 4, 2014
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Anderson County Commissioners Scholarship

 

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The Anderson County Board of Commissioners established and began contributing personal funds to a scholarship fund in 1996. This fund is set up to provide a scholarship annually to a student at each of the three high schools in Anderson County.

Oak Ridge commissioners, from left to right, Myron Iwanski, Whitey Hitchcock, Jerry Creasey, scholarship recipient Jasmannie Garcia, Steve Mead, and Robin Biloski, and John Shuey (not pictured) were pleased to award Garcia, Oak Ridge Class of 2014, with his $500 scholarship to be used at Roane State Community College, where he will enter the nursing program.

Congratulations, Jasmannie!

Filed Under: Anderson County, College, Education, Government, Honors and Spotlight Tagged With: Anderson County, Anderson County Commission, high schools, Jasmannie Garcia, Jerry Creasey, John Shuey, Myron Iwanski, nursing program, Roane State Community College, Robin Biloski, scholarship, scholarship fund, Steve Mead, Whitey Hitchcock

Perma-Fix awards 2014 Career Day scholarships

Posted at 12:10 pm June 6, 2014
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Kaylee Burton

Kaylee Burton (Photos courtesy Roane County Schools/The Roane County News)

Submitted by The Roane Alliance

KINGSTON—The fourth annual Perma-Fix Career Day Scholarships have been awarded to a graduate from each of the five Roane County high schools. The students receiving the $250 scholarships applied for them during their junior year while participating in the Roane County Chamber’s High School Career Day.

The five graduating seniors awarded this year’s Perma-Fix Scholarships are Matt Snow, Harriman High; Ryan Hamby, Rockwood High; Austin Strange, Roane County High; Kaylee Burton, Midway High; and Amber Eddy, Oliver Springs High.

Each of these seniors are seeking postsecondary education by attending college, a technical center, or taking workforce training courses, a press release said.

“We want to encourage and help students continue their education after high school,” said Kenyon Mee, facility manager for Diversified Scientific Services Inc., a subsidiary of Perma-Fix Environmental Services in Kingston. “This is our fourth year of sponsoring scholarships for graduates of Roane County high schools. Next year, we will announce five more scholarships for the Class of 2015.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Allen Lutz, Amber Eddy, Austin Strange, Diversified Scientific Services Inc., Education Matters, Harriman High, High School Career Day, high schools, Kaylee Burton, Kenyon Mee, Matt Snow, Midway High, Oliver Springs High, Perma-Fix, Perma-Fix Career Day Scholarships, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Roane Alliance, Roane County, Roane County Chamber, Roane County High, Rockwood High, Ryan Hamby, scholarships

High school students receive UT scholarships in math competition

Posted at 2:34 pm November 19, 2013
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Larry Shen of ORHS, a Math Contest Winner

Larry Shen of Oak Ridge High School was one of 10 students who recently won $4,000 annual scholarships to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in a UT-Pro2Serve Math Contest. (Photo courtesy University of Tennessee)

KNOXVILLE—Ten students were recently awarded $4,000 annual scholarships to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in a UT-Pro2Serve Math Contest.

More than 600 students from 50 Tennessee high schools participated in the competition held Nov. 14 at UT.

The scholarship winners included Larry Shen of Oak Ridge High School.

The other nine winners were:

  • Jia Liang of Collierville High in Collierville
  • Sanghwah “Samuel” Rhee of McCallie School in Chattanooga
  • Jason Wen of McCallie School in Chattanooga
  • Anwesh Dash of White Station High in Memphis
  • Sajant Anand of Science Hill High in Johnson City
  • Saaber Pourmotabbed of White Station High in Memphis
  • Queena Lu of Pope John Paul II High in Hendersonville
  • Yunhua Zhao of Memphis University School in Memphis
  • Zachary Strickland of Webb School of Knoxville in Knoxville [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anwesh Dash, Barry Goss, high schools, Jason Wen, Jia Liang, Larry Shen, math competition, math contest, Oak Ridge High School, Pro2Serve, Queena Lu, Saaber Pourmotabbed, Sajant Anand, Sanghwah Samuel Rhee, scholarships, Tennessee, University of Tennessee, UT, UT-Pro2Serve Math Contest, Yunhua Zhao, Zachary Strickland

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