Santa Fe High School senior Taryn Flock is the recipient of the four-year, $10,000-a-year platinum scholarship from the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund. The fund is administered through the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.
In addition, Ryan Abreu of Las Vegas Robertson High School, Michael Kosdan of St. Michael’s High School, Madeline Tiee of Los Alamos High School and Jessica Zepeda of Capital High School in Santa Fe will receive four-year $2,500-a-year gold scholarships.
Sixty high school seniors and college students are receiving 2005 Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees' Scholarship Fund scholarships at an award ceremony May 1 in the Lumpkins Ballroom at La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe.
Again this year, the University of California is awarding seven UC Nonresident Tuition Waiver scholarships. Two are full Nonresident Tuition Waivers; two are three-quarter tuition wavers; one is a half Nonresident Tuition Waiver; and two are one-quarter tuition waiver scholarships. These renewable four-year scholarships give Northern New Mexico students who wouldn’t qualify for UC in-state tuition through a different program, financial assistance to attend a UC campus at or closer to the in-state tuition rate, explained Tony Fox of the nonprofit Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation. Priority is given to students from low-income families who are first generation college students.
The seven students receiving the UC scholarships are Flock, Leif Hopkins and Andrea Romero of Santa Fe High School, Tyreisha Foster of West Las Vegas High School, Daniel Franken of United World College of Southeast Asia, and Theodore Garcia and Jared Lindsay of St. Michael’s High School.
Twenty-eight students will receive $1,000 one-year renewable scholarships, eight students will receive four-year $1,000 silver scholarships and 10 students will receive one-year $2,000 Comforce Technical Services scholarships. Comforce is a subcontract company providing human resources services to the Laboratory.
The Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund encourages Laboratory employees, retirees and subcontract personnel to donate to a fund that awards college scholarships to Northern New Mexico area students.
Students receiving $1,000 college scholarships, and the high school or college they currently attend are as follows: Denise Aguilar of Penasco High School; Jugnu Ahluwalia of University of New Mexico, Los Alamos; Rene Bailon of the College of Santa Fe; Jessie Bunkley and Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman of Santa Fe Preparatory School; Andrea Chavez, Rebecca Gonzales and Jose Solis of New Mexico State University; Azul Freedom and Tanya Greer of Las Vegas Robertson High School; Francheska Gurule of West Las Vegas High School; Zigfried Hampel-Arias, Anna Miller, Amanda Minnich, Kyle Nekimken, Samantha Slutzky and Robert Torney all of Los Alamos High School; and Austin Minnich of University of California, Berkeley.
Also receiving $1,000 scholarships are Marcel Herrera of Northern New Mexico Community College in Española; Steven Honig of Montana State University; Christopher Kempes of Colorado College; Jessica Martinez of Coronado High School; Leif Hopkins, Ashley Jaramillo and Thomas Johnson of Santa Fe High School; Jasmine Spencer of Albuquerque St. Pius High School; and Gina Torres and Heidi Torres-Fewell of Taos High School.
The eight, $1,000 for four years silver scholarship recipients are Layne Bettini of Taos High School, Sarracina Littlebird of Santa Fe Preparatory School, Kevin Claytor and Menghuan Lu of Los Alamos High School, Jasmine Olivas of Española Valley High School, Mark Sena of St. Michael’s High School, Skye Seppanen of Monte del Sol Charter School and Timothy Tapie of McCurdy School.
The 10, $2,000 Comforce Technical Services one-year scholarship recipients are Delana Farley of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Christian Garcia and Amanda Lopez of Española Valley High School, Francesca Jimenez of McCurdy School in Española, Sarah Quintana of Pecos High School, Alex Riebli of Taos High School, Thomas Rodriguez of Penasco High School, Joseph Romero of Pojoaque High School, Justin Roper of West Las Vegas High School and Erica Velarde of the University of New Mexico.
In addition, four students will receive scholarships through the Endowed Leadership Scholarship Fund created in 2000 by former Laboratory Director John Browne and his wife, Marti. This fund was created to provide scholarship opportunities for Northern New Mexico students with significant financial need. These students also have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities and achievements in their home, school and community.
The $1,000-a-year for four years Endowed Leadership Scholarship Fund recipients are Jasmine Bennett of Taos High School, Amber Harper of Coronado High School, Lauren Massengill of Pojoaque High School and Nikki Rendon of Penasco High School.
Since the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund program began in 1998, 315 scholarships have been granted, according to Fox of the Laboratory Foundation. And Laboratory workers have donated more than $1 million to the scholarship fund since its creation.
