10 Chelmsford Seniors at Nashoba Tech Qualify for Adams Scholarship

The maximum number of seniors at Nashoba Valley Technical High School qualified to receive the John & Abigail Adams Scholarship.

Forty-four students, including 10 from Chelmsford, representing 25 percent of the Class of 2015, qualified for the award, which provides free undergraduate tuition to state colleges and universities to students who score in the Advanced category in either the Mathematics or English Language Arts section of the 10th-grade MCAS test, and in the Proficient or Advanced category in the other section.

In addition, students must: have a combined MCAS score on those two assessments that ranks in the top 25 percent of their school district; be a permanent Massachusetts resident; be a United States citizen or eligible non-citizen; enroll in a postsecondary institution full time in the first traditional academic semester after high-school graduation; and complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

The following Chelmsford seniors qualified for the scholarship: Ryan Belanger, Michaela Flanagan, Michael Geoffroy, Lauren Kelley, Kendra Malone, Samantha Nigro, Jake Powers, Shane Purgus, Amber Uzzell and Daniel Whiting.

Photo Courtesy Nashoba Tech: Adams Scholarship recipients from Nashoba Tech include, front row, from left, Shane Purgus (Chelmsford), Kayla Johnson (Townsend), Ryan Cooper (Shirley), Julian Morgan (Ayer), Diedrick Warrington (Pepperell), Jon Chevrette (Townsend), Amber Uzzell (Chelmsford) and Bradley Logan (Ayer); second row, from left, Curtis Tippett (Ayer), Lauren Kelley (Chelmsford), Derek Decesare (Shirley), Ryan Belanger (Chelmsford), Alexander Gianakos (Shirley), Nicholas Johansen (Townsend), Samantha Nigro (Chelmsford), Michael Geoffroy (Chelmsford), Meghan Donovan (Pepperell), Dale Flamburis (Westford) and Sariah Willard (Pepperell); and, back row, from left, Michaela Flanagan (Chelmsford), Brianna White (Shirley), Dominic Sears (Pepperell), Matthew Donahue (Townsend), Christina Perini (Harvard), Bilal Sayed (Methuen), Thomas Greenwood (Westford), Kenneth Howell (Shirley), Kalee Chapman (Townsend), Wilbannelys Ramos (Lowell), Gabriel Carvalho (Lowell) and Bradley Gilbert (Pepperell). Missing from photo are Lexis Bushnoe (Townsend), Steven Collins (Pepperell), Darren Gentile (Groton), Shannon Harrison-Fisher (Pepperell), Kevin Lewis (Ayer), Kendra Malone (Chelmsford), Jared Paiva (Townsend), Julianna Poutry (Ayer), Jake Powers (Chelmsford), Dochug Thoummavong (Shirley), Jakob Vandal (Shirley), Daniel Whiting (Chelmsford) and Zachary Whittemore (Townsend).