These students were nominated by their high school educators based on their academic excellence, community service experience, leadership skills, and ambassadorial potential. They will use their scholarships toward summer, semester, or year programs departing summer 2008 or winter 2009. For more information about next year’s Awards for Excellence Scholarships, please scroll to the bottom of this page.
Full scholarship winners
Wynn Barnard, Friday Harbor High School, Friday Harbor, WA
Mia Candelaria, Santa Monica HS, Santa Monica, CA
Amalia Centurion, Saint Mary’s Academy, Portland, OR
Cara Cerise, Highland High School, Salt Lake City, UT
Connie Ip, Skyline High School, Oakland, CA
Eviane Leidig, La Cañada HS, La Canada, CA
Amanda Lu, Plano West Senior High School, Plano, TX
Mia Oliveri, White Plains High School, White Plains, NY
Tania Todd Villa, Cibola HS, Albuquerque, NM
Nicholas, Welna, John Adams High School, Evanston, IL
$2,500 scholarship winners
Dawn Cole, Flagstaff High School, Flagstaff, AZ
Amanda Cosenza, Franklin High School, Elk Grove, CA
Erin Griffard, Boise High School, Boise, ID
Zachary Horvath, Newport High School, South Beach, OR
Myles Iribarne, Laguna Hills High School, Mission Viejo, CA
Michael Josephs, Westborough High School, Westborough, MA
Emilia Kaczynski, Lakeville South High School, Prior Lake, MN
Takeshi Kaji, Lowell High School, San Francisco, CA
Zahra Lalani, Northside College Prep High School, Chicago, IL
Shaina Loew, Northern Highlands Regional High School, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Mackenzie Nelson, West Windsor Plainsboro H.S. – North, Plainsboro, NJ
Caitlin Nettleton, Washington International School, Washington, DC
Daneel Schaechter, Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Maya Serkin, Monument Mountain Regional High School, Richmond, MA
Brooke Sheppard, Eisenhower High School, Lawton, OK
Geoffrey Wood, Lakeridge High School, Lake Oswego, OR
Seunghyun Yoo, Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, MI
$1,000 scholarship winners
Kerry Alexander, Tampa Preparatory School, Tampa, FL
Sara Anderson, Sentinel High School, Missoula, MT
Hayley Andrews, School Without Walls, Washington, DC
Tara Baumgarten, Reedsburg Area HS, Reedsburg, WI
Paul Belmonte, Oxford High School, Oxford, MI
Roxana Bostwick, University High School, Tucson, AZ
Ivana Brancaccio, The Meadows School, Las Vegas, NV
Natalie Briggs, Hoover HS/Glendale, Glendale, CA
Anna Burnett, Marquette Senior HS, Marquette, MI
Maria Bustillo, Castro Valley High School, Castro Valley, CA
Kathryn Butera, Crescent Valley High School, Corvallis, OR
Grayson Carlile, Juneau Douglas High School, Juneau, AK
Cassarah Chu, El Cerrito High School, Albany, CA
Cecilia Chung, La Pietra Hawaii School For Girls, Honolulu, HI
Erin Costello, Hood River Valley High School, Hood River, OR
Laura Crockett, Holland Hall Upper School, Tulsa, OK
Carolyn Daussin, Apex High School, Apex, NC
Adriana Garcia, Carl Hayden High School, Phoenix, AZ
Laura Goetz, Sage Hill School, Huntington Beach, CA
Nicholas Gregg, Sultan High School, Gold Bar, WA
Hannah Harkey, Apponequet High School, Lakeville, MA
Erin Hattler, Overland High School, Denver, CO
Todd Hirsch, High School of American Studies, Woodhaven, NY
Emily Hudson, Myers Park High School, Charlotte, NC
Carolyn Kaufman, Saint Teresa’s Academy, Kansas City, MO
Geoffrey King, Pine-Richland High School Wexford, PA
Sean Kovacs, Rock Canyon High School, Castle Rock, CO
Robert Kramer, William Fremd High School, Inverness, IL
Michelle Lee, Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, IL
Katherine Loosley, Roseburg High School, Roseburg, OR
Kayla Mallery, Simsbury High School, Simsbury, CT
Lydia McGinnis, Voorhees High School, Oldwick, NJ
Kendra Mckechnie, Middletown HS North, Red Bank, NJ
Scott Mu, Centennial High School, Ellicott City, MD
Cara Nadler, Talawanda High School, Oxford, OH
Julia Neidert, Lakeville South High School, Prior Lake, MN
Layo Obamehinti, Trinity High School, Euless, TX
Isaiah Pasko, Southeast High School, Springfield, IL
Carmel Pratt, Teaneck HS, Teaneck, NJ
Adriana Provenzano, Olympia High School, Olympia, WA
Allison Ramp, Sitka High School, Sitka, AK
Patrick Repko, Cathedral Catholic High School, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Lucinda Robinson, Durham School of the Arts, Durham, NC
Allison Ross, Hinsdale South High School, Darien, IL
Nicholas Rutzen, Eisenhower Campus High School, Blue Island, IL
Kallie Smith, Polaris K-12 School, Anchorage, AK
Ethan Sneed, Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa, OK
Francine St. Laurent, North Pole High School, North Pole, AK
Alexandra Suberi, South River High School, Davidsonville, MD
Lauren Teusch, Jefferson-Scranton High School, Jefferson, IA
Derrick Toups, LA School for Math, Science & the Arts, Natchitoches, LA
Chi Truong, Long Beach Polytechnic HS, Long Beach, CA
Matthew Velez, Saint Joseph High School, South Plainfield, NJ
Franklin Ventura, Cholla High School, Tucson, AZ
Samuel Waterhouse, Jefferson High School, Scio, OR
Solomon Wells, Morro Bay High School, Los Osos, CA
Lauren Wescott, Watertown Senior High School, Watertown, WI
Rebekah Wilson, Yukon High School, Yukon, OK
Skylar Winsor, Saint Johns High School, Saint Johns, AZ
Danielle Workman, East Noble High School, Wolcottville, IN
Allison Zuck, Sacred Heart/Griffin, Springfield, IL
Read news articles written about AFX winners Amalia Centurion and Zachary Horvath.
Scholarships for students departing in 2009
The nomination deadline for this year has passed. Stay tuned to this website for information in summer 2008 about the next round of scholarships which will apply toward programs departing summer/fall 2009.
Whether you are a high school teacher, principal, school counselor, or advisor, you work with outstanding students on a daily basis, and with your nomination and support, some of them could embark in 2009 for the experience of a lifetime! By nominating your motivated students for AFS scholarships, you will make it possible for some of the brightest and most capable young people in the U.S. to participate in this unforgettable, outside-the-classroom learning experience. For more information about having an AFS volunteer or staff member come visit your high school, please contact awardsforexcellence@afs.org.
