One Hundred graduating seniors of Northshore’s six high schools will receive $450,000 in tuition grants May 21 at the annual awards breakfast of the Scholarship Foundation of Northshore.
One of those scholarships will go to a recipient selected to become a journalism intern whose byline would appear this summer in the Woodinville Weekly. Readers will remember 2023 intern Arushi Sharma of Woodinville, recipient of the $6,000 Bryant grant. In her first year at University of Washington, Sharma was named to the staff of the UW Daily college newspaper in a highly competitive selection process.
Deadline for applying for the internship and the other 99 scholarships is March 15. Winners will be announced May 1. Applications are made electronically. The full list of 55 donor partners and the scholarships they offer will be found at www.sf-ns.org/scholarships on the foundation website. “Browse all scholarship opportunities.”
At the breakfast, the Foundation will celebrate its 40th anniversary as a community foundation. Since 1984 when eight Northshore Rotarians started the non-profit’s program, the Foundation has awarded $5 million in scholarships to 2,500 Northshore graduates. Many of those were in the form of renewals for two or four years. These recipients have attended 375 colleges in the U.S., British Columbia, England, and Scotland. Scholarships range in value from $2,500 to $10,000 each. 40 of them are renewable. One became a Rhodes scholar.
For information, inquiries may be made to scholarship program coordinator B-Z Davis at bzdavis@hotmail.com and (425) 765-3035. Individuals interested in sponsoring their own scholarship in 2025 or make a donation toward an additional Northshore Community Scholarship next year should contact executive director John Hughes at (206) 890-8346 or hugograce@gmail.com.
