For the 15th year, the Poinciana Council of The Osceola Chamber has offered an annual scholarship to graduating high school seniors who live in the Poinciana area, and this year thanks to proceeds from the Poinciana Council Scholarship Fund and Poinciana Council Board of Directors and Osceola County betterment grants, the Council was able to award four $1,000 scholarships.
For the third year in a row, students already enrolled in post-secondary institutions were also eligible to apply for funds so they might continue with their degree or certification program. New this year, a business forward scholarship in the amount of $1000 sponsored by HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital was also presented.
This year’s Poinciana Council Scholarship Award winners were Angelina Angervil of New Dimensions, Lorenzo Mag-aso of Osceola County School for the Arts, Eman Fatima of Celebration High School, Jade Sewram of Poinciana High School, and Melina Delgado of oTECH. They were given their awards at an April 22 ceremony at Poinciana High School.
Their selection was based on extracurricular and volunteer activity, recommendation from the students’ teachers and advisors, and, most importantly, the students’ essay response to the prompt “As a young adult/ professional in the Poinciana Community, please address the biggest challenges facing the community and ways that you can address those challenges considering your educational goals, life experiences, and any obstacles or hardships that you have overcome.”
