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Wachovia Foundation/Project Discovery Scholarships to be Awarded.
Over the last 5 years Project Discovery has been pleased to be able to award scholarships to its best and most deserving students. Since 1996, when $700.00 in book scholarships were presented, to last year, when 10 scholarships totally $8,500.00 were handed out, Project Discovery has been working hard to increase the number and value of the scholarships it can present to its students.
This year, at the 6th Annual Student Awards and Fund Raising Banquet, Project Discovery will partner with the Wachovia Foundation to award $25,000.00 in merit based scholarships. At the banquet, to be held at the Holiday Inn Select Koger Center in Richmond, VA on April 24, 2008, Ms. Amy Nisenson, Vice President and Community Affairs Manager, for the Wachovia Foundation will present five Wachovia Foundation/Project Discovery scholarships of $3,000.00 each. In addition, Mr. Clarence F. Nelson Jr, of the Project Discovery Board of Directors will award 13 other scholarships totaling $10,000.00. These scholarships will range from $2,000.00 academic awards to $500.00 book scholarships.
Working through 22 local programs, Project Discovery assists students from predominantly low to moderate-income households who are potential first generation college students. Stressing the importance of education to these students, Project Discovery, and its partner agencies, provide workshops to improve basic skills (e.g., study skills, time management, financial planning, etc.) and assist students on the process of completing applications (admission and financial aid) to post secondary institutions. As a result, a greater number of students who would not have gone on to post secondary education have an opportunity to continue their education.
The Wachovia Foundation seeks to eliminate the pre-K – 12 “achievement gap” in education through facilitated curriculum based programs and merit-based access to higher education for under represented groups. Project Discovery is pleased to partner with the Wachovia Foundation. We both believe that hardworking, meritorious students should not be deprived of an opportunity to attend college simply because of a lack of funding. Our vision is to see that every student graduate from high school and every student who has the desire and demonstrates the ability, be able to attend post-secondary education.