The City of Yakima is encouraging\narea high school seniors to apply for a $1000 scholarship being offered by the\nAssociation of Washington Cities (“AWC”). The AWC 2019 Center for Quality Communities\nScholarship will be awarded to six high school seniors in spring 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Application packets can be\ndownloaded from the City of Yakima website front page at yakimawa.gov<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The AWC Center for Quality\nCommunities promotes municipal leadership and civic engagement. The Center, which is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit\norganization, helps community members understand the important role their\ncities and towns play in Washington State. \nThe AWC Center for Quality Communities Scholarship supports high school\nstudents who are actively engaged in their community and\/or city\ngovernment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Each\ncity and town in Washington State is eligible to nominate one local scholarship\napplicant whose application is then forwarded to the AWC office in\nOlympia. A committee formed by the AWC\nthen makes the final decision about which six applicants from throughout the\nstate will receive scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nCity of Yakima’s 2018 nominee, Savannah Kimzey from West Valley High School,\nwas one of the six applicants awarded a scholarship last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the criteria that the City\nof Yakima established, the AWC scholarship is open to students in the Yakima\nSchool District and West Valley School District who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Will graduate from high school, complete home school, or receive a GED in spring\/summer 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Are currently or have been involved in significant school\/community leadership activities and\/or city government<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Plan to continue their education in the 2019-2020 academic year at an accredited college,community college, or trade school on a half-time or more basis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n – Are residents of Washington state<\/p>\n\n\n\n Applications for the AWC Center\nfor Quality Communities Scholarship are due by <\/p>\n\n\n\n 5:00 pm on Friday, February 15th<\/sup>, 2019.\u00a0 Completed scholarship applications should be sent by postal mail to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Randy Beehler<\/p>\n\n\n\n Communications & Public Affairs Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n City of Yakima, Wa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yakima, Wa.\u00a0\u00a0 98901 <\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about the AWC scholarship process, contact Randy Beehler by phone (901-1142) or by e-mail (randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The City of Yakima is encouraging area high school seniors to apply for a $1000 scholarship being offered by the Association of Washington Cities (“AWC”). The AWC 2019 Center for Quality Communities Scholarship will be awarded to six high school seniors in spring 2019. Application packets can be downloaded from the City of Yakima website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}