EducationQuest has awarded 14 Nebraskans $75,000 in Reaching Your Potential Scholarship funds.
EducationQuest’s Reaching Your Potential Scholarship program provides renewable scholarships to low-income Nebraska students who face obstacles to college. Applicants are referred by community agencies, colleges, and select high schools across the state. Recipients who attend a two-year college receive $3,000 annually; those who attend a four-year college receive $6,300 annually.
Since the program began in 2000, EducationQuest has awarded more than $8.5 million in scholarships to 657 Nebraskans. Of these, 80 percent are either enrolled in college or have graduated.
Vice President of Grants and Scholarships Eric Drumheller said, “The Reaching Your Potential Scholarship program helps level the playing field for students who have faced barriers that could easily hinder them from attending college. We are impressed by the tenacity of our latest scholarship recipients and look forward to celebrating their collegiate and professional accomplishments.”
Scholarship recipients are listed below alphabetically by hometown and the college they attend or will attend. Three students have chosen to remain anonymous.
Bellevue: Verla Yuveyonge Rabia, Nebraska Methodist College – Omaha
Grand Island: Amanda Pfeifer, Central Community College – Grand Island
Lincoln: Molly Jacobsen, Bryan College of Health Sciences – Lincoln
Nandi Kumondan, Metropolitan Community College – Omaha
Alivia Miller, Southeast Community College – Lincoln
Natalia Ortega, Union College – Lincoln
North Platte: Seth Brown, Mid-Plains Community College – North Platte
Omaha: Trish Aguilar-Montepeque, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ree Htay, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Ajo Kambo, Nebraska Methodist College – Omaha
Sidney: Suzanna Guerrero, Bellevue University
For additional information about the Reaching Your Potential Scholarship program, click here<https://educationquest.org/professionals/reaching-your-potential-scholarship/>.
