Goodnight Middle School Student Selected A Semifinalist for Young Scholars Program

According to their website, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Scholars Program— the largest of its kind in the nation— is a selective five year pre-college scholarship for high performing middle school students with financial need.

Goodnight Middle School is proud to announce that Avery May has been selected as a semifinalist for the Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholars Program.

There were approximately 2,300 applications from 7^th grade students across the nation, and only 50 students will be chosen in September 2017 for the program.

However, Executive Director Harold O. Levy said in his letter to May, “Your designation as one of our Young Scholars Program semifinalists is a significant achievement, and you deserve to be commended.”

May was nominated for the program by Goodnight Middle School teachers Rachelle Lancaster and Ashley Dickinson.

According to their website, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Scholars Program— the largest of its kind in the nation— is a selective five year pre-college scholarship for high performing middle school students with financial need.

Recipients are provided individualized academic and college advising and financial support for school, summer programs, internships, and other “enrichment opportunities.”

In addition to academics, students receive resources pertaining to music, art, study abroad opportunities, community service opportunities, a computer and software, opportunities to network with high-achieving peers, and special consideration for the foundation’s $40,000 per year College Scholarship.