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9 Princeton Students Receive $45K In Scholarship For Higher Education
The students will be attending Cornell U, Drew U, Culinary Institute of America among other institutions of higher learning.
PRINCETON, NJ — Nine students from Princeton won a total of $45,000 in funding for their higher education.
On Wednesday, Princeton Community Housing (PCH) celebrated the achievements of the scholarship winners at an event hosted at the Princeton Senior Resource Center’s Nancy Klath Center for Lifelong Learning.
The students who won the scholarship are Isaiah Nazario (College of New Jersey); Htway Min (Drew University); Luis Arriola (Culinary Institute of America); Emmanuel Guzman (Rider University); Kelly Kapatsoulia (Kean University); Bianca Orostizaga (University of Hartford) and Zin Tun (Cornell University).
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The students won the scholarship through the New Jersey Affordable Housing Management Association (JAHMA) and the National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA).
According to Sara Just, PCH Trustee and Chair of the Princeton Community Village Management Committee, 96 students received scholarships nationwide last year, and eight of them were residents of Princeton Community Village.
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She noted out that no other affordable housing development in the country has won more scholarships over the years, than Princeton Community Housing.
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