The Administrators of the Associates of the Solana Seaside Library just lately introduced the recipients of the 2022 Associates Scholarship awards for schooling past the highschool degree. 4 nameless donations added to the funds budgeted for scholarships this 12 months, making it attainable for the Associates to award seven $1,000 scholarships.
The award winners comprise a various group of Solana Seaside residents when it comes to colleges attended, instructional and profession aspirations, and life expertise, as detailed of their utility essays. They’ve spectacular information of educational achievement and repair to their Solana Seaside group and past, in addition to excellent suggestions from their lecturers, counselors and others.
Right here in alphabetical order by first identify are the 2022 Associates Scholarship recipients:
Eric Van Valkenberg
(Amy McQuade)
Eric Van Valkenberg (Torrey Pines Excessive College) will attend the College of Oklahoma, the place he’ll research bodily remedy in preparation for a profession as a bodily therapist or a sports activities coach. A baseball participant coaching on his personal to remain in form in the course of the pandemic, Eric injured his again, and his harm required surgical procedure and an extended restoration. One 9 Sports activities Medication and Bodily Remedy in Solana Seaside helped him to get again to kind, bodily and mentally. And it was in the course of the rehab course of that he realized what he needed to check in faculty. Eric interned at One 9 final summer time so he may study in regards to the enterprise and sooner or later assist different individuals the best way he had been helped. A volunteer from a younger age, Eric labored with a gaggle of mates in Solana Seaside Little League to show newly arrived refugee youngsters the best way to play baseball. “Although language was a barrier,” he says, “all of us laughed and performed collectively for hours.” He has additionally volunteered with the Miracle League (an affiliation that helps baseball for bodily and mentally challenged athletes) and has helped with youngsters’ birthday events on the Disaster Home home violence program in Santee.
Franco Sims (Canyon Crest Academy) will attend Embry Riddle Aeronautical College in Prescott, Arizona pursuing a bachelor of science diploma in aeronautical science. He’s enthusiastic about attending among the best colleges within the nation for this function. On the similar time he can be taking his flight coaching to turn out to be a licensed business airline pilot. Over the past 12 months he has taken a flight course resulting in a non-public pilot’s license, which is step one towards a business license. Franco has been a a lot appreciated administrative assistant and IT tech for Nuinto, a video communications consultancy in Solana Seaside, organising sound, telephone and WiFi methods and coaching staff. An honored Eagle Scout with Solana Seaside Troop 782, he was additionally a member of Teen Volunteers in Motion for six years working with native charities, and has volunteered via Solana Seaside Presbyterian Church and the YMCA.
Jessica Connell
(Adela Guerrero)
Jessica Connell (Canyon Crest Academy) will attend College of Colorado, Boulder finding out chemical and organic engineering. Jessica’s objective is to turn out to be a medical physician working in a profession that entails direct affected person care, making a protected and inclusive house for numerous affected person populations. At Canyon Crest Jessica performed varsity area hockey for 4 years and took part within the college’s Vocal Conservatory lessons. Purchasing for high-risk seniors (via Teenagers Serving to Seniors), working with youngsters (as a volunteer at Get Exterior summer time camp and within the Feed the Youngsters program), and appearing as a St. James/St. Leo Youth Café Chief helped Jessica resolve on an academic and profession path that may mix STEM abilities with the need to serve others.
Kelly Drummond (a 2006 graduate of San Dieguito Academy) earned a bachelor of arts diploma from the College of Puget Sound. This month she has entered the masters of superior research program in marine biodiversity and conservation at Scripps Establishment of Oceanography, UCSD. She is going to pursue a profession in coverage and communications in marine conservation. Kelly has been a studio artwork trainer, an environmental educator and a Montessori trainer. After a decade of working in schooling in several capacities, she went again to highschool in numerous group faculty packages to check marine science and to see the place she may match into assembly the challenges the marine setting faces right now. By means of the masters program at Scripps she needs to increase her abilities for working on the juncture of communication and sustainable growth of ocean industries. Kelly has volunteered with the Surfrider Basis and the Boys & Women Golf equipment. She has frequently participated in seashore cleanups all through San Diego County, and weeded the backyard the Boys & Women Golf equipment maintains for his or her summer time cooking lessons.
Kristal Cruz (Torrey Pines Excessive College) will attend California State College, San Marcos, the place she plans to main in advertising or in little one and adolescent growth. Advertising research would assist her with plans to open a enterprise, working a bakery or a nail salon. Rising up she watched web tutorials on the best way to do nail designs with dwelling provides, and she or he just lately opened a nail enterprise at dwelling, incomes cash doing work she enjoys. As she begins faculty, Kristal can be contemplating a special main, one that might result in a profession in instructing. Her volunteer expertise tutoring for Casa de Amistad in the course of the pandemic taught her how a lot she loves serving to youngsters study. Along with Casa de Amistad, she has volunteered at Dia de Los Muertos and within the vacation baskets program of St. Leo and St. James parish.
Morgan Day
(Kira Manqueros)
Morgan Day (Santa Fe Christian Colleges) will attend Colorado State College, the place she has been accepted into the Honors program. She is going to main in development administration, with an emphasis in sustainability in constructing, and a minor in graphic design. Impressed by the general public artwork in Solana Seaside as she grew up, and by the artwork lessons she took in highschool (she took each one out there), she plans a profession “creating oases for others to get pleasure from.” Along with her mom, Morgan has volunteered with the Nationwide Charity League in areas from San Diego to Oceanside, engaged on seashore clean-up; on the Rancho Coastal Humane Society; and at an area soup kitchen. At Santa Fe Christian she was a varsity swimmer and water polo participant and captained each groups.
Wendy Mendoza (a Torrey Pines Excessive College graduate in 2019) has now accomplished her junior 12 months at College of San Diego (USD), majoring in behavioral neuroscience. After ending her undergraduate diploma subsequent 12 months, she is going to apply to the USD grasp’s entry program in nursing. And after graduating and dealing as a registered nurse in a hospital setting for some time, she plans to return to highschool to turn out to be a girls’s well being nurse practitioner. Impressed by her expertise as a translator for her Spanish-speaking dad and mom on the physician’s workplace and for one more member of the family at clinics and hospitals, she appears to be like ahead to taking part in a task in minimizing the language barrier between healthcare suppliers and Spanish-speaking sufferers to allow them to get the care they want. Wendy grew up attending the Boys & Women Golf equipment and Casa de Amistad, after which volunteering at Casa and the Solana Seaside Library. She now volunteers at Palomar Well being hospital in Escondido, the place she participates within the Pathmaker Internship program, aiding hospital workers with affected person care.
The students just lately have met individually on the library with Scholarship Committee members to obtain their awards and the Associates’ nicely needs as they take the subsequent step of their instructional journey. “Studying about these spectacular college students, their objectives, and their want to serve others,” says Associates of the Library President Susan McEachern, “actually makes me optimistic in regards to the future.”
