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American Savings Foundation Awards Scholarships To 120 Students, Many From Area
"We are proud to welcome this new class of scholars."
By Ciara Hooks, The Bristol Press
August 13, 2022
Another year, another round of deserving Robert T. Kenney Scholarships recipients have been awarded. The American Savings Foundation announced it has awarded 120 local students the scholarship, including a large number of students from New Britain.
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“While so much has changed over the past three years, we are proud that the Robert T. Kenney Scholarship Program continues to support local students as they pursue their dreams of a college education,” said Maria Falvo, president and CEO.
These scholars will be attending two-year and four-year colleges and technical/vocational programs in Connecticut and across the country. While most are incoming freshmen, the Foundation awards first-time scholarship to returning college students as well as to adult nontraditional students.
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“We are proud to welcome this new class of scholars,” Falvo said.
Current Robert T. Kenney Scholars have the opportunity to reapply, and most scholars receive support for all four years of college, which the Foundation believes is very important.
“We’ve seen how important it is for students to have consistency, and during covid we actually streamlined our renewal re-application process so that the students could just have a little easier time coming back and letting us know how they’re doing,” Falvo said. “Most of our scholars do get the scholarship for all four years and I think that consistency has been really helpful through covid because so much has changed, our current scholars have gone through a lot of disruption so we try to be steady, supportive and consistent.”
The Foundation has made recent changes to the renewal process allowing current scholars more time to reapply, meaning renewal awards will be announced in the fall.
“Despite the many challenges that high school and college students have faced over the past three years, our Robert T. Kenney Scholars continue to show remarkable resiliency.” said Heather Hokunson, the Foundation’s scholarship program officer. “We want to do everything we can to make the renewal of their scholarship one less worry as they navigate the college process.”
The Foundation projects that a total of 398 Robert T. Kenney Scholars will receive a total of $825,000 for the 2022-2023 academic year.
The new 2022-2023 Robert T. Kenney Scholars from the area include:
Berlin
Sarah Al Mozani, Berlin High School
Shanna Lennehan, Eastern Connecticut State University
Bristol
Genevieve Dailey, University of Saint Joseph
Adrianna Dell’Aera, Bristol Central High School
Taylor Lorenzetti, St. Paul Catholic High School
Marcia Marquis, Bristol Eastern High school
Sophia Nocera, Bristol Eastern High School
Mitchell Peterson, Bristol Central High School
Jazmin Recinos, E.C Goodwin Technical High School
Noah Taylor, Bristol Central High School
New Britain
Layla Addy, E.C. Goodwin Technical High School
Brian Aguirre, New Britain High School
Ghadah Alhasani, E.C. Goodwin Technical High School
Arafat Alqatabi, New Britain High School
Sahar Alwishah, New Britain High School
Eiet Anaam, CREC Academy of Science & Innovation
Michael Benalcazar, New Britain High School
Ashley Beslanga, University of Saint Joseph
Kimberly Beslanga, New Britain High School
Xavier Bryant, New Britain High School
Marcus Caccio, New Britain High School
Maria Caceres, E.C. Goodwin Technical High School
Stephen Charneco, New Britain High School
Danida Forbes, University of Connecticut
Jordy Franco, Academy of Science and Innovation
Angelica Gajewski, Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy
Nathaniel Gardner, Academy of Aerospace & Engineering
Faith Gibson, New Britain High School
Lismaniely Gonzales, New Britain High School
Taliah Green, New Britain High School
Cadence Hughes, New Britain High School
Wilkins Irizarry, New Britain High School
Marion Johnson, New Britain High school
Julia Kaminska, New Britain High School
Saadat Khan, New Britain High School
Yandelis Lantigua, New Britain High School
Kylee Lapointe, New Britain High School
George Lara, New Britain High School
Lailianna-Faith Mejia, New Britain High School
Kaltuma Mohamed, E.C Goodwin Technical High School
Julia Nalewajek, New Britain High School
Noora Nassir, New Britain High School
Stella Ofei, Eastern Connecticut State University
Randy Opoku, New Britain High School
Marlena Polski, Eastern Connecticut State University
Jonathan Reyes, E.C. Goodwin Technical High School
Abby Roy, New Britain High School
Layla Ruiz, New Britain High School
Adonis Sabourin, New Britain High School
Itati Serrano, New Britain High School
Isaac Shields, New Britain High School
Chris Soto, New Britain High School
Christopher Stasiak, New Britain High School
Joshua Torres, New Britain High School
Jazlyn Urena, New Britain High School
Keniel Villanueva, New Britain High School
Newington
Shakir Smith, Newington High School
Plainville
Leanne Edwards, Northwest Catholic High School
Zachary Michaels, Plainville High School
Daniel Sozanski, Plainville High School
Southington
Kha Ngo, University of Connecticut
