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Current Scholarship Recipients


Matthew Brosky

Falk/Hatch Scholarship
2019/2020

Austin Cornish

Armada High School
Frederick C Matthaei Scholarship
2019/2020

Austin plans to enroll in the College of LS&A and is the recipient of the Frederick C. Matthaei Scholarship. Austin was well-rounded academically and athletically. Austin took multiple AP classes, which included Computer Science principles, U.S. History, Biology, World History, Physics, Psychology, Chemistry, Calculus and Language and Competition. He was a member of the Armada High School cross country, track and basketball. He was team captain of the cross country team. He was also a member of the National Honor Society, PAL leadership team, nature club, beta club and HOSA. Austin earned National Merit Commended Scholar, AP scholar with distinction, All-Academic Cross Country and Academic All-State Cross Country. James was an active member of his community, volunteering for PAL camp, tutoring, food drives, fundraisers, Armada Holly days and Relay for Life.

Mason Dominowski

Women's Volleyball Manager Scholarship
2019/2020

Cole Greenspan

Schmidt/Hunt Scholarship
2019/2020

James Gu

Troy High School
Frederick C Matthaei Scholarship
2019/2020

James plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Frederick C. Matthaei Scholarship. James had a very rigorous academic course curriculum, including a total number of thirteen AP classes. On top of his academic schedule, he was an active member of in-school clubs, which include Science Olympiad, Biology Competitions Club, Health Occupations Students of America, Project LEAD and student government. Throughout those clubs, he was Student Government Class President Sophomore year, biology competitions club vice president and Project LEAD treasurer. He was also on the varsity swim team all four years of high school and team captain. James volunteered his time at the Beaumont Hospital as well. James earned many awards, which include National AP scholar, United States of America Biology Olympiad Semifinalist, International Biology Scholar, United States President’s Volunteer Service Award Bronze Level and National Merit Commended Student. James also earned Regional Finalist in National Science Bowl Competition and Detroit Science & Engineering Fair Excellent Award in Molecular Biology Category.

Tabitha Hendren

Bennie Osterbann Scholarship
2019/2020

Tabitha Hendren is a Troy High School graduate and enrolled in the School of Engineering.  She is the recipient of the Harold duCharme Scholarship.  Tabitha has been a Captain on JV Soccer and been a member of Cross Country and Volleyball. She was inducted into the National Honor Society in December 2014. Tabitha was Executive Board Vice President and a class representative all four years of high school. She took multiple AP classes including Calculus BC, Psychology, and Physics while maintaining a 3.98 GPA. She volunteers with Relay for Life where she was a team captain in 2015-2016 and she also volunteers as a tutor of many subjects. Tabitha has received multiple Academic Honors & Awards.

 

Jaylen Kelly-Powell

Football Scholarship
2019/2020

Ryan Klein

Bennie Osterbann Scholarship
2019/2020

Ryan Klein graduated with a 4.28 GPA at Brother Rice High School, and he enrolled in the School of Engineering. He has taken various AP classes including Calculus BC, Physics, English, and US Government and he received the AP Scholar award his senior year.  Ryan participated in an engineering internship in the summer of 2015 where he evaluated the integrity of joints created through automated faster systems to define optimal parameters for high quality, high speed joining. He has been very involved with his school by being a member of Varsity Lacrosse, Varsity Football, and Business Club. Ryan balanced his academics and extra-curricular activities by volunteering at Christ Child House, Right to Life, and Special Olympics. 

Tristan Klein

Detroit Club Scholarships
2019/2020

Matthew Lougheed

Bennie Osterbann Scholarship
2019/2020

Matthew Lougheed enrolled into the School of Engineering and is a recipient of the Frederick C. Matthaei Scholarship. Matthew has taken many AP Classes including Chemistry, US History, Computer Science, Calculus BC, and Biology while maintaining a 4.1 GPA. He has been a member of Varsity Lacrosse, National Honors Society, president of FIRST Robotics, and co-president of Model United Nations. He is active with the Boy Scouts of America, where he earned the title of Eagle Scout and Matthew was also a National Merit Semifinalist.

 

Miranda Makowski

Riverview Community High School
Roger and Elaine Zatkoff Scholarship
2019/2020

Miranda plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Elaine and Roger Zatkoff Scholarship. Miranda finished first in her class with a weighted GPA over a 4.0 overall. Miranda was a member of many school related clubs, including Spanish, diversity, connection and pirate pals. She also earned varsity letters in swimming, diving and soccer. Miranda took a rigorous academic schedule with multiple AP classes, including microeconomics, macroeconomics, calculus, statistics and U.S. History. Miranda was part of the National Honor Society and earned Michigan State University HATS OFF award, for being in the top 1% of students in Michigan. Miranda was the recipient of the Women in Engineering Summer Camp Scholarship her junior year. She volunteered at Susan G. Komen “Race for the Cure” and as a member of the pirate pals, Miranda mentored elementary students with autism and special needs.

Alexander Mettler

Detroit Country Day High School
Gary & Ann Moeller Scholarship
2019/2020

Alexander plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Gary & Ann Moeller Scholarship. Alexander was the President of the class board and President of the Entrepreneurship Club all four years of high school. He was a team member of the Robotics and Electric Car club and captain of the varsity tennis team. In the school’s science fair, he was the recipient of the grand prize in physical science. Outside of school, Alexander did research in science and engineering, creating a provisional patent for life lure and awarded first place in the MPowered Entrepreneurship Competition for the Life Lure. Alexander participated in multiple science and engineering fairs: earning first place in Environmental Engineering at Science & Engineering Fair of Metro Detroit, 4th place overall at the Michigan Science and Engineering fair and earned nine professional awards including ASM International Top Materials Award. Alexander is also a tennis pro, teaching tennis lessons and volunteered at the Detroit Zoo and the Northville Fishing Derby. Alexander earned multiple science and engineering awards, National Scholar athlete award and ASM International Top Material Science Award.

Katie Minnich

Women's Swimming Scholarship
2019/2020

Vishal Nayak

Canton High School
Gary & Ann Moeller Scholarship
2019/2020

Vishal Nayal plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Gary and Ann Moeller Scholarship. Vishal finished first in his class with a weighted GPA over a 4.0 overall. Vishal was an active board member of the Math Olympiad and captain of the Science and Chemistry Olympiad. He was part of the tennis team all four years and captain his senior year. Vishal achieved multiple academic awards, including 3-time Distinguished Honor Roll Member, as well as a 3-time American Mathematics School Winner and achieved first place in Astronomy at the Science Olympiad State Competition. Academically, he has taken advantage of the most rigorous AP classes including Biology, U.S. History, Chemistry, Calculus, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. Vishal has also generously given his time and energies to his community as a volunteer coach for the East Middle School MathCounts Program and co-founded a musical group, which he played piano at local retirement homes.

Hope Norris

Detroit Club Scholarships
2019/2020

Matthew Person

Bennie Osterbann Scholarship
2019/2020

Matthew Person is a Lakeland High School graduate and plans to enroll in the College of LS&A with the hopes of joining the Ross School of Business. He is a recipient of the Fredrick C. Matthaei Scholarship. Matthew was a member of both the Varsity Cross Country and Varsity Track team all four years and served as Student Body Class President. He was also the treasurer of National Honor society his junior and senior years. Matthew was a guitar player in Church Praise Band and participated in Flint, Michigan Missions Trip roofing houses. He took multiple AP classes including Psychology, United States History, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics while maintaining a 4.3 weighted GPA. He received AP Scholar with Distinction and was named a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist his senior year.

Drew Prater

Monroe High School
Lloyd & Laurie Carr Scholarship
2019/2020

Drew plans to enroll in the College of LS&A and is the recipient of the Lloyd and Laurie Carr Scholarship. Drew finished first in his class with unweighted GPA of a 4.0 overall. Drew was a member of many in-school extracurricular activities. He was part of the American Sign Language Club, Trojan Mentor and Monroe High School cabinet class of 2019 cabinet. Drew was a member of the National Honor Society and president his senior year. He was president of the C.A.L.C. club and a member of the Monroe High School Senior Leadership Team his senior year. Athletically, Drew was a member of the track and field team, soccer team and high school band. Drew was an active member of the Calvary United Methodist Church and the patrol leader with the Boy Scouts of America Troup 579. Drew achieved the Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scouts rank, while volunteering many hours in his service project.  While taking multiple AP courses, including World History, Chemistry, Statistics, Calculus and English Literature, Drew was also appointed Winterfest King his junior year and part of the Homecoming Court member his senior year.

Madeline Purvis

Troy Athens High School
Bicentennial Scholarship
2019/2020

Madeline plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of Bicentennial Scholarship. Madeline was active in-school activities, which include National Honor Society, varsity sideline cheerleading, varsity competitive cheerleading, varsity tennis, SADD and book club. She was captain of both cheerleading squads her senior year and junior varsity tennis captain her sophomore year. Madeline was part of the superintendent’s student advisory board and Troy Athens student council all four years and student council president her senior year. Madeline had an extensive list of AP courses, eleven total. This lead to many scholar awards; which include Capstone AP scholar, All-state academic team and scholar athlete. She had the highest GPA in the cheer program all fours years and earned Governor’s Service Award and The Irvin F. Swider Eternal Flame Award for student council charity week. Madeline was an active member in the community, which include but not limited to Detroit Street Care, The Jenna Kast Believe in Miracles Foundation and The Joan Rose Foundation.

Kaitlyn Riley

Riverview Community High School
James H. LoPrete Scholarship
2019/2020

Kaitlyn plans to enroll in the College of LS&A and is the recipient of the James H. Loprete Scholarship. Kaitlyn was a member of multiple in-school clubs, including student council, student government, Spanish club, freshman connection club and charity Key club. She was a member of the National Honor Society and president her senior year. Kaitlyn was also a member of the varsity softball, basketball and golf. She earned multiple coaches awards and most improved player throughout her four years athletically. Kaitlyn was an active member of her community; volunteering her time at Beaumont Hospital delivering flowers and at St. Paul Lutheran Church in multiple bible study activities.

Naomi Savas

Women's Basketball Student Trainer / Equipment Manager Scholarship
2019/2020

Jacob Slimak

Athens High School
David J. Hallissey Memorial Scholarship
2019/2020

Jacob plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the David J. Hallissey Scholarship. Jacob finished first in his class with a weighted GPA of 4.42 with a demanding academic curriculum with fourteen AP classes. Jacob participated for his high school soccer and track and field teams. Jacob was a captain for the track and field team his junior and senior year. Jacob was part of the math club and National Honor Society. He volunteered for his school’s concession stand and AdvoKate Charity Run & Walk for St. Jude. Jacob was a youth recreational soccer coach and volunteer coach for TopSoccer Athletes with Disabilities. Jacob was a scholar athlete: earning All-Region Track and Field, All-State soccer and Academic All-State soccer. Jacob earned summa cum laude, AP Capstone Diploma and AP Scholar Distinction.

Jacob Slimak

Athens high School
David J. Hallissey Memorial Scholarship
2019/2020

Jacob plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the David J. Hallissey Scholarship. Jacob finished first in his class with a weighted GPA of 4.42 with a demanding academic curriculum with fourteen AP classes. Jacob participated for his high school soccer and track and field teams. Jacob was a captain for the track and field team his junior and senior year. Jacob was part of the math club and National Honor Society. He volunteered for his school’s concession stand and AdvoKate Charity Run & Walk for St. Jude. Jacob was a youth recreational soccer coach and volunteer coach for TopSoccer Athletes with Disabilities. Jacob was a scholar athlete: earning All-Region Track and Field, All-State soccer and Academic All-State soccer. Jacob earned summa cum laude, AP Capstone Diploma and AP Scholar Distinction.

Srihari Srinivasan

North Farmington High School
David J. Hallissey Memorial Scholarship
2019/2020

Srihari plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the David J. Hallissey Scholarship. Srihari juggled multiple leadership roles, which included president of HOSA, captain of the varsity tennis team, vice president of competitive events for DECA, Senior tutoring representative for National Honor Society and parliamentarian for model united nations. Srihari was student researcher in the Chinnaiyan lab, tutor for test preparation and Carnatic violinist. She volunteered at Beaumont Hospital and a senior living facility. Srihari had a rigorous academic curriculum, which included thirteen AP classes. Throughout Srihari’s high school years, she earned multiple department awards, national AP scholar, and National Merit semifinalist. Srihari placed third at the HOSA ILC in medical terminology and a DECA International finalist in buying and merchandising.

Gloria Stach

Bennie Osterbann Scholarship
2019/2020

Gloria Stach plans to enroll into the School of Engineering and is a recipient of the Lloyd & Laurie Carr Scholarship. Gloria has taken many IB classes including Chemistry, Economics, and World History while maintaining a 4.0 unweighted GPA. She served as a student mentor for Peer Corps and participated in Forensics, Model United Nations, and Future Business Leaders of America. She is active within her community by serving as a religious education teacher, tutoring bilingual students at International Technology Academy, and volunteering at soup kitchens. Gloria earned many awards throughout high school including Cum Da Lade all four years, 2nd place Individual Future Problem Solving State sophomore and junior year, and 1st place Community Problem Solving Team junior year.

Dennis Synder

Annapolis High School
Jerry & Anne Hanlon Scholarship
2019/2020

Dennis plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Jerry and Ann Hanlon Scholarship. Dennis has taken multiple AP classes and received various awards including being National Merit Semifinalist, AP scholar with Honor and Academic Excellence Award. He was part of the Annapolis High School Jazz and Concert Band, Drama club, National Honor Society and team captain of the Quiz Bowl team his senior year. Dennis is also a member of the HFC Metropolitan Symphony Band, as well as a volunteer at Gleaners Community Food Bank and Wreaths across America.

Justin Tocco

Plymouth High School
Roger and Elaine Zatkoff Scholarship
2019/2020

Justin plans to enroll in College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Elaine and Roger Zatkoff Scholarship. Justin finished first in his class with a weighted GPA of 4.21. Justin had a rigorous academic curriculum, including AP classes in calculus, computer science, macroeconomics, microeconomics, physics, statistics and Spanish. He was dual enrolled at Eastern Michigan in programming data structures courses. Justin was a board member –PCCS computer advisory board, ski club and Canton Education Basketball League. He was part of the varsity baseball, where he earned All-State and All-District Academic Honors and KLAA Varsity Scholar Athlete. Justin was part of the University of Michigan Dearborn STEM Mentorship, ECE Electrify Program and iD Tech Summer Camp. He was also part of the Visteon STEM mentorship and travel baseball. Justin volunteered as an assistant coach special Olympics of Michigan, academic tutor and Plymouth High School Key club.

Cameron Tressler

Saline High School
Roger and Elaine Zatkoff Scholarship
2019/2020

Cameron plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Elaine and Roger Zatkoff Scholarship. Cameron finished first in his class with an unweighted GPA of 4.0. Cameron enrolled in multiple AP classes, which included Chemistry, computer science, calculus, English Composition, U.S. Government, music theory, physics, statistics, macroeconomics and microeconomics. Cameron was part of the FRC5066 Coding Team, which brought STEM to the community outreach, and invited to the Legion of Mathematics Scholars competition. As a pianist and saxophonists, Cameron was a member of the marching band, as a section and squad leader and member of the jazz band and pit orchestra. Athletically, Cameron was a part of the varsity tennis team all four years. He was captain and Hornet of the year, his senior year. He was part of track and field, mostly distance racing in the spring of his senior year. Cameron was invited to the National Student Leadership Conference at the Northwestern Engineering School. He was also invited to the Michigan Math and Science Scholars. In Cameron’s spare time, he tutored younger students in pre-calculus and volunteered at Brecon Village Evangelical Home. Throughout his high schools years, Cameron was a National Merit semifinalist, qualified to take the U.S. Olympiad Chemistry Exam, 5-time Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition finalist, earned the English Department Award and Gold Honor Roll.

Sofie Vanhal

Women’s Volleyball Student Assistant
2019/2020

Max Weber

Bennie Osterbann Scholarship
2019/2020

Max Weber, a winner of the Lloyd & Laurie Carr Scholarship, graduated form Ferndale High School with a 4.0 GPA and he is applying to the School of Engineering. He took many AP classes including World History, Chemistry, and Microeconomics. Max was a member of the Varsity Swim Team, serving as captain his junior and senior year, a member of National Honor Society, and a member of Student Council. He received multiple awards throughout his four years of high school including National AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, and Athletic Academic Achievement Award. Max also volunteered within his community through Relay for Life and Clean the Ferndale Up.

Brandon Westfall

Armada High School
Lloyd & Laurie Carr Scholarship
2019/2020

Brandon plans to enroll in the College of Nursing and is the recipient of the Lloyd and Laurie Carr Scholarship. Brandon graduated with an overall, unweighted GPA of 3.97, while taken a rigorous academic course curriculum; which included AP classes in Physics, Chemistry, Calculus and Computer Science Principles. Brandon earned High School All Honor Roll all four years. He won 1st place in AMVET’s Essay Contest Michigan and 3rd place AMVET’s Essay Contest United States. Brandon was a part of the student council, HOSA, Pal Camp Leadership Team, National Honor Society and NHS parliamentarian his senior year. Outside of academics, throughout his four years, Brandon was a junior varsity in basketball, baseball, cross country and varsity in track and tennis. In his spare time, Brandon was a MYLead at Michigan State University and worked for P. Osten Janitorial.

Brandon Whitmore

Bennie Osterbann Scholarship
2019/2020

Brandon Whitmore graduated from Shrine Catholic High School with a 4.27 GPA and he is applying to the School of Kinesiology.  He took many AP courses including US History, World History, and Literature. Brandon was a member of the Varsity Football team and Varsity Baseball team, receiving the Varsity Baseball Academic Excellence Award. He received multiple awards throughout his four years of high school including Honor Roll, Excellence in many of his honors classes, and National Honor Society. Brandon served as both Class Vice President and Class Secretary. He was an active member in his community, putting in mass amounts of hours of service with multiple organizations. Through Catholic Heart work Camp, Brandon took a school mission trip to Roanoke, Virginia where he performed service for over 128 hours a week.

Claire Yang

Troy High School
Bicentennial Scholarship
2019/2020

Claire plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Bicentennial Scholarship. Claire was a member of the National Honor Society, symphonic band and marching band flute section leader. Claire took multiple AP courses, which include chemistry, biology, calculus, computer science, statistics, physics, English language and competition. Outside of school, Claire was an active member of numerous clubs. Claire was a HOSA national qualifier, National Economics Challenge Finalist, Project LEAD, Relay for Life, club med and USA Computing Olympiad Silver Edition. Claire earned National Merit semifinalist, USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalist and President’s Volunteer Service Award. Claire volunteered at St. John Hospital throughout her high school years.

Josh Zhe

Detroit Country Day High School
Harold duCharme Scholarship
2019/2020

Josh plans to enroll in the College of Engineering and is the recipient of the Harold Ducharme Scholarship. Josh was the Science Olympiad Captain, the editor in chief for his high school newsletter and the co-founder of VISION. He is a pianist and participated in the cross country and track and field teams. Josh was very active in his community, volunteering at multiple locations, which included Sunrise Senior Living, One World Surgery Honduras Medical Brigade, Henry Ford Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital. Josh took various AP courses: chemistry, psychology, Chinese, biology, calculus and U.S. History. Josh earned AP Scholar with Distinction, a National Merit Semifinalist, 3rd place at the Michigan State Science fair and 1st place in the Albion International Piano Competition. Josh was also the grand prize winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers professional award.

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