ASME/FIRST Clarke Scholarships are awarded to nine students

Emily Smith
ASME NEWS

During the finals of this year's FIRST National Championship competition in April in Atlanta, nine students nominated by ASME members were named recipients of this year's ASME/FIRST Clarke scholarships.

Past President Reggie Vachon awards John Barrow a scholarship.

These scholarships are given in recognition of, and to reward, students whose FIRST experience has inspired an interest in pursuing an engineering career. Each year, ASME awards up to nine $5,000 scholarships to high school seniors who are active on FIRST teams. To be considered, all students must be nominated by an ASME member, an ASME Auxiliary member, or a student member who is active with FIRST.

All nominees must be planning to enroll full-time in an ABET-accredited or substantially equivalent mechanical engineering or ME technology program, no later than the fall after their senior year in high school.

For more information, visit www.asme.org/education/precollege/first/firstscholarship.htm.

The winners of the 2005-06 scholarships are: John Barrow, on the Robodawgs, team 441, of the John H. Reagan School in Houston, nominated by Jimmy Lee Means, P.E.; Carlo Fiorella, Jr., of the Miracle Workerz, team No. 365, representing the Charter School of Wilmington in Wilmington, Del., nominated by William Hommes; Auhona Hoq of the Robonauts, team 118, of Clear Brook High School in Houston, nominated by Willard Nott; David Lloyd, on team 117, the Taylor Allderdice Steel Dragons, from Taylor Allderdice School in Pittsburgh, nominated by Doug Koebler; Michael Lunday of the Bomb Squad, team 16, at Mountain Home H.S. in Mountain Home, Ariz., nominated by Roger D. Horton; Robert Martinez of Bishop Guertin Red Streak, team 811, of Bishop Guertin School
in Nashua, N.H., nominated by Thomas D. Moran, P.E.; Ryan Susca of Team Paragon, team 571, in Windsor H.S., Windsor, Conn., nominated by Joseph J. Barna; Kacey Trout, of the S.C. Dragons, team 1243, at Swartz Creek H.S. in Swartz Creek, Mich., nominated by Joseph Bickley; and Yan Wang, of the Code Red Robotics, team 639, of Ithaca H.S. in Ithaca, N.Y., nominated by Vicki Niebrzydowski.

 

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