Crystal Lake South Student Wins PTA Scholarship

CRYSTAL LAKE, IL — Megan Lowe, a recent graduate of Crystal Lake South High School, was named this year’s recipient of the Glacier Ridge Elementary PTA Scholarship, according to a news release from District 47. The $1,000 scholarship was created by the PTA in 2019 to help former Glacier Ridge students further their education, whether it be at a traditional four-year college, junior college, or technical school.

To be eligible, applicants must have attended Glacier Ridge Elementary School for at least one year and have graduated from a District 155 high school with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.

“It is a privilege for the Glacier Ridge PTA to honor past students through the alumni scholarship program,” said Julie Sromek, PTA scholarship committee chair. “This year’s applicants were an amazing group of students who we know will do great things. Megan was a great candidate choice in representing the Polar Bears. We are proud of her."

Besides being an Illinois State Scholar and AP Scholar of Distinction, Lowe was on the math team and served as a trumpet section leader at Crystal Lake South High School, according to the District 47 news release. She also taught piano, tutored math students and worked as a receptionist at a local music school.

Currently, she has an internship at a local law firm and will attend Illinois State University in the fall where she hopes to receive her major in sociology and minor in math. After earning her bachelor’s degree, she plans to attend law school and eventually become a civil rights attorney, according to District 47 officials.

The PTA scholarship will help her pay for college, she said.

“I loved my time at Glacier Ridge,” she said. “I truly think that my passion to fight for the underprivileged was instilled and nurtured by the teachers who taught me to care for other people. They modeled advocacy for each student that I hope to replicate in my work as an attorney.”