Cartersville Students Agree To Graduate To Get $10K Scholarship

CARTERSVILLE, GA — Five students in the Cartersville City School System last week signed commitments to graduate high school and accept a $10,000 college scholarship funded by the REACH Georgia program.

REACH Georgia is a statewide program that works with school systems to award select eighth-grade students up to $10,000 in scholarship money when they graduate high school to attend a two- or four-year Georgia REACH college or university of their choice. Some institutions match or even double match that amount.

The Cartersville Middle School students who signed commitments were Bryan Abarca, Christian Martinez, Irai Milian, Anya Riley and Bryan Thomas.

Launched in 2012, the REACH — Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen — Georgia program is a needs-based scholarship designed to promote academic success and expand access to higher education, especially for students who are the first in their families to attend college.

As part of the program, the students signed contracts to maintain a certain grade point average and remain crime, drug, and behavior-issue free, as well as meet with a volunteer mentor until they graduate from high school. Their parents or guardians also signed contracts to support the students through their education.

When these scholars graduate from high school, they will receive a total of $10,000 in scholarships – $2,500 each year for up to four years – to be used at a Georgia HOPE scholarship-eligible college. Many colleges are matching this scholarship and some are double matching the scholarship, providing scholars additional resources for their education.

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