Nora Kane Named as One of the 2024 Recipients of the Academic Achievement Merit Scholarship
June 24 2024 - 1:39PM
Business Wire
The Daniel G. Calugar Foundation proudly announces that Nora
Kane is one of the 2024 recipients of the Academic Achievement
Merit Scholarship. As one of 10 scholarship recipients, Nora will
receive $10,000 to help further her studies at the California
Institute of Technology, where she will be an incoming freshman in
the fall of 2024.
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The Daniel G. Calugar Foundation has
announced that Nora Kane, who will attend the California Institute
of Technology in the fall, is one of the recipients of the Academic
Achievement Merit Scholarship. (Photo: Business Wire)
“I’m extremely honored to receive this scholarship and know that
it will help me greatly in achieving my goal of becoming a
physicist,” Nora said.
The Daniel G. Calugar Foundation created the Academic
Achievement Merit Scholarship to recognize academic excellence in
incoming freshmen for the fall 2024 semester. It seeks to support
driven individuals with well-defined career aspirations by
fostering their educational and professional journey.
To be eligible for the Academic Achievement Merit Scholarship,
applicants had to achieve a minimum score of 1500 on the SAT or 34
on the ACT. In addition, students underwent a comprehensive
assessment of their academic achievements, stated goals, and
objectives as presented in their application statement.
In her scholarship essay, Nora wrote about how she focused on
two things when considering potential colleges: the quality of the
school’s physics program and the robustness of its community
outreach programs.
“I find great joy in sharing my passion for STEM with others,
particularly through tutoring, wherein I can ignite a similar
interest and level of understanding in others,” Nora wrote. “The
ability to hire a professional tutor is often outside the scope of
a family’s financial means (it certainly was for my own family); it
has been my privilege to remove that roadblock throughout my high
school career in my community and it is something I plan to
continue with equal fervor throughout my undergraduate tenure.”
Nora added that with the resources Caltech has available, she’ll
be able to “put my commitment to the betterment of my community
into action during my undergraduate tenure. I want my college
experience to be so much more than classroom learning, just as high
school has been.”
Dan Calugar is a financial investor with a background in
computer science, law, finance, and business. He majored in
computer science at the Air Force Academy, and today, he uses the
technical knowledge he gained there to design computer programs
that help him identify profitable investment strategies.
The Daniel G. Calugar Foundation’s Academic Achievement Merit
Scholarship has awarded all ten scholarships for 2024. The
foundation is now accepting applications for the 2025 academic
year, with the deadline being June 30, 2025.
For more information and to apply, please visit
dancalugarscholarship.com.
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Name: Dan Calugar Email: Scholarship@dancalugarfoundation.org
Organization: Daniel G Calugar Foundation Address: 1 Hughes Center
Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89169 Phone:702-302-3204
https://www.dancalugarscholarship.com/