Eight Louisiana highschool seniors have been named within the first group of winners within the 66th annual Nationwide Benefit Scholarship Program. All are from south Louisiana.
Three are from the Baton Rouge space, two are from the New Orleans space, two are from the North Shore and one is from Lafayette.
They’re amongst roughly 1,000 highschool seniors this yr incomes Nationwide Benefit Scholarship awards financed by a complete of 136 firms, firm foundations and different enterprise organizations. Stipends vary from $1,000 to $10,000 per yr.
Listed here are the winners, the colleges they attend and the sponsor of their Nationwide Benefit scholarship:
- Caitlyn A. Beebe, home-schooled in Baton Rouge, from Emerson Electrical Co.
- Chloe E. Jorns, Chalmette Excessive College in Chalmette, from the Boeing Co.
- Leighton E. Flanagan, Dutchtown Excessive College in Geismar, from BASF Corp.
- Isabella Le, a resident of Lafayette, Louisiana College for Math, Science, and the Arts in Natchitoches, from Walgreens.
- Caroline A. Homosexual, Fountainbleu Excessive College in Mandeville, from Basic Dynamics Corp.
- Audrey M. Phillips, Ben Franklin Excessive College in New Orleans, from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
- Andrew P. Martin, Northshore Excessive College in Slidell, from Textron.
- Matthew J. Larpenter, Springfield Excessive College in Springfield, from Arkema Inc.
Students have been chosen from college students who superior to the finalist degree within the Nationwide Benefit Scholarship competitors and met standards of their scholarship sponsors.
Extra scholarship winners are scheduled to be introduced Could 11, June 1 and July 11. By the conclusion of this yr’s competitors, about 7,500 college students can have gained Nationwide Benefit Scholarships value about $28 million.