Rising Sun Regional Foundation awards $20,000 in scholarships

RISING SUN, IN — The Rising Sun Regional Foundation announced that it has awarded a total of $20,000 in scholarship grants to 20 graduating seniors who reside in Ohio and Ripley counties and the City of Aurora, the foundation’s Southeastern Indiana grantmaking region. Each student received a $1,000 scholarship award.

Recipients of these RSRF scholarships are:

Batesville Community School Corporation
Will Nuhring, Carley Pride, Olivia Raab, Delyla Wonnell, and Vicky Zheng

Sunman-Dearborn Community School Corporation
Sophie Allen and Drake Mitchell

Jac-Cen-Del Community School Corporation
Cloey Simon

Milan Community School Corporation
Lydia Clark and Max Hartman

South Ripley School Corporation
Edward Rodriguez II and Madelyn Tompkins

Rising Sun/Ohio County Community School Corporation
Josie Bell, Gavin Gilb, Elizabeth Kate Jenkins, Jonathan Jimenez, Cora Poling, and Halle
Shorten

South Dearborn Community School Corporation
Katelyn Routhier

Private/Homeschool
Dylan Potter

All graduating seniors who reside in Ohio and Ripley counties and the City of Aurora, maintain a six-semester grade point average of 2.75 or higher, and plan to attend a post-secondary educational institution were eligible to apply for these scholarship awards. Winners of these scholarships were drawn at random from the pool of applications that were submitted to the Rising Sun Regional Foundation with official transcripts.

(Rising Sun Regional Foundation press release)