Comcast NBCUniversal Awards $16,000 in Scholarships to Kansas City Area High School Seniors
June 15 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Leaders and Achievers®
Scholarship Program Recognizes Students’ Achievements Both In
and Out of the Classroom
Comcast announced it has awarded $16,000 in scholarships for the
2017-18 school year to 12 suburban Kansas City area students as
part of its annual Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program. The
program, funded by the Comcast Foundation, recognizes the best and
brightest high school seniors for their community service, academic
performance and leadership skills.
“Our Leaders and Achievers scholarship winners exemplify
leadership and are committed to academic excellence and community
service,” said Ron Orlando, vice president, Comcast External
Affairs. “We are honored to recognize their achievements and
excited to support them as they continue their educational
journeys.”
A number of state legislators from Missouri and Kansas, as well
as local civic and education officials, joined Comcast in
recognizing the students at a special reception held Wednesday,
June 14. Eleven recipients each received a $1,000 Leaders &
Achievers Scholarship award; in addition, Jordan Atkins, a graduate
of Raytown High School, was awarded a $5,000 Comcast Founders
scholarship, named in honor of Ralph J. Roberts, Founder and
Chairman Emeritus of Comcast Corporation. A full listing of Kansas
City area honorees is below.
The Comcast Leaders and Achievers program provides scholarships
to students who strive to achieve their full potential, who are
catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are
involved in their schools, and who serve as models for their fellow
students. The philosophy behind the program is to give young people
every opportunity to prepare for the future and to engage them in
their communities. The program also demonstrates the importance of
civic involvement, and the value placed on civic involvement by the
business community.
This year, the program will award more than $2 million in
scholarships to more than 2,000 students across the country to help
them pursue higher education. Visit here to learn more.
2017 Kansas City Area Leaders &
Achievers Scholarship Recipients
INDEPENDENCE
- Zoey Gard, Sr.; graduated Center Place
Restoration School, Independence, Mo.; attending Blue River
Community College, Independence, Mo.
- Joshua Merithew; graduated Ft. Osage
High School; attending Johnson County Community College, Overland
Park, Kan.
- Chloe Miller; graduated Truman High
School; attending Truman University, Kirksville, Mo.
LEE’S SUMMIT
- Kadie Clark; graduated Blue Springs
South High School; attending Washington University, St. Louis,
Mo.
- Kaitlyn Hilbert; graduated Lee’s Summit
North High School; attending University of Missouri-Columbia,
Columbia, Mo.
- Paige Maxwell; graduated Lee’s Summit
High School; attending Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
OAK GROVE
- Mac Dumsky; graduated Oak Grove High
School; attending University of Missouri, Kansas City
PECULIAR
- Matthew Argotsinger; graduated Raymore
– Peculiar High School; attending University of Central Missouri,
Warrensburg, Mo.
RAYTOWN
- Jordan Atkins; graduated Raytown High
School; attending Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Okla.
OLATHE
- Cole Brabec; graduated Olathe Northwest
High School; attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Mass.
- Alexis McCalla; graduated Olathe North
High School; attending Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D.
- Hayley Nitz; graduated Olathe South
High School; attending Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a global media and
technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and
NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video,
high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers
under the XFINITY brand, and also provides these services to
businesses. It also provides wireless and security and automation
services to residential customers under the XFINITY brand.
NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports cable
networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television
production operations, television station groups, Universal
Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts.
Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for more
information.
About the Comcast Foundation
The Comcast Foundation was founded by Comcast
Corporation in June 1999 to provide charitable support to qualified
non-profit organizations. The Foundation primarily invests in
programs intended to have a positive, sustainable impact on their
communities. The Foundation has three community investment
priorities—expanding digital literacy, promoting service, and
building tomorrow’s leaders. Since its inception, the Comcast
Foundation has donated more than $195 million to organizations in
the communities nationwide that Comcast serves. More information
about the Foundation and its programs is available at
www.comcast.com/community.
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