Boston– June 8, 2021– Nonprofit VHS Learning today revealed the winners of its 14th annual college scholarship program. In 2020, VHS Learning awarded an overall of $5,000 in scholarships to 12 receivers. This year, the not-for-profit increased its scholarship investment to $6,500 and the number of recipients to 15 students.

2 trainees each won $1000 scholarships, five earned $500 scholarships, and eight trainees were awarded $250 scholarships. All scholarship recipients produced videos that responded to the scholarship programs question for this year: “Please explain the abilities you have actually discovered in your VHS Learning course that you feel will be useful in college or your profession, and why.”

Among the $1,000 scholarship winners, Selina Tran from Fontbonne The Early College of Boston, took AP Computer Science Principles, AP Computer Science A, and AP Statistics. In her video, she stated that what she learned from those courses would assist her in her organized future career in artificial intelligence research study in addition to in life. “Not only will I be able to better examine situations, but I can also create much better predictions for myself in the real life and put my analytical abilities to the test,” she said.

Suhaila Islam from Razi School in New York was one of the $500 scholarship winners. She took 2 VHS Learning courses, U.S. Government and Psychology I. “Im very thinking about a career within the healthcare field, which needs people to have a multitude of soft skills such as open-mindedness, approachability, interaction and empathy,” she said in her video. She specified that both courses helped prepare her for that career. “My U.S. Government class taught me how to defend what I believe in while remaining tolerant through considerate arguments with my peers. “It provided me the chance to get ready for the sort of individuals I will discover throughout my college experience and possibly even my career,” she described.

Ruthie Zhang from Littleton High School in Massachusetts was the other $1,000 scholarship winner. She made a video describing how VHS Learning assisted her take effort in her own education, including contributing to virtual group tasks and doing extra research study on topics she found intriguing. Zhang associated how she took several VHS Learning classes consisting of AP Economics and AP Human Geography, in between 12th and 8th grade, courses that were not provided at her small school. Her choice to take a VHS Learning Sociology course led her to discover she had an affinity for social science, something she had actually never taken in the past. “Without VHS Learning, I would not have actually taken the effort in studying what I discover fascinating,” she stated.

The other $500 scholarship winners and their videos consist of:

Bernadette Evardone from Bristol Borough High School in Pennsylvania

Isabella Hund from East Juniata High School in Pennsylvania

Laurel Pondish from Hammonton High School in New Jersey

Sophia Numan from Andover High School in Massachusetts

John Boesen, a senior from Malcolm Public Schools in Nebraska who is headed to Harvard, was among the $250 winners. In his video, he highlighted the brand-new ways of thinking he acquired from taking six VHS Learning courses over his school career. “One decision I was making was how lots of meals to wash per cycle prior to carrying them,” he stated.

The other $250 scholarship winners and their videos include:

Alopa Waje from Hopkinton High School in Massachusetts

Amelia Valente from Milford High School in Massachusetts

Ruizhe (Fair) Shen from the Fontbonne The Early College of Boston in Massachusetts

Hannah Hartman from Shanghai American School in China

Jennifer Boyle from Saucon Valley High School in Pennsylvania

Julianna Reidell from Jenkintown High School in Pennsylvania

Kotoha Yamada from South Portland High School in Maine
” In their video submissions our scholarship winners this year pointed out that in addition to content understanding, they got effective time study, communication, and management abilities as part of their VHS Learning experience,” said Carol DeFuria, President & & CEO of VHS Learning. “They felt those skills would be a terrific aid in college and in their future professions. At VHS Learning we take great pride in the fact that in addition to academic skills, we help trainees discover and refine important life skills.”

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Boston– June 8, 2021– Nonprofit VHS Learning today announced the winners of its 14th annual college scholarship program. In 2020, VHS Learning awarded a total of $5,000 in scholarships to 12 recipients. Zhang associated how she took lots of various VHS Learning classes consisting of AP Economics and AP Human Geography, between 8th and 12th grade, courses that were not provided at her little school. In his video, he emphasized the brand-new methods of thinking he acquired from taking six VHS Learning courses over his school career. VHS Learning is a nonprofit organization with 25 years of experience providing world-class online programs to students and schools everywhere.

VHS Learning is a not-for-profit company with 25 years of experience offering first-rate online programs to schools and students everywhere. For more details about VHS Learning please check out https://www.vhslearning.org/  and follow on Twitter at @VHSLearning.

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