Canon-Mac Student Earns Comcast Scholarship

Anthony Sciulli of , a senior at , is one of 163 Pennsylvania high school seniors $1,000 scholarships through its annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program.

The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, awarded Sciulli and the others each a $1,000 scholarship through the program, one of the Comcast Foundation’s signature community investment programs to students’ leadership skills, academic achievement and commitment to community service.

 Comcast officials were joined by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and state legislators in recognizing the students at a special event held Tuesday at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.

“I commend the students honored by Comcast today for their hard work and dedication to academics,” Corbett said. “Not only have they excelled in the classroom, but they have shown a commitment to making their communities a better place to live. Each one of them makes Pennsylvania proud.”

 The program provides one-time, $1,000 scholarships to students who strive to achieve their 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 be prepared for the future, to engage youth in their communities, and to demonstrate the importance of civic involvement and its value to the business community.

Each year, Comcast works with high school principals, guidance counselors and school administrators to select the scholarship recipients. Since the program’s inception, there have been more than 17,000 scholarship winners totaling more than $17.2 million.

More information about the foundation and its programs is available at www.comcast.com/community.