Alex Appleby, right, hugs Principal Sarah Strassburger after being presented with the Principal s Award during the Aspen High School senior awards and local scholarship ceremony on Monday, May 24, 2021, on the AHS turf field. Photo by Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times.
It may well be the marquee event of awards season at Aspen High School: Monday night’s senior awards and local scholarship ceremony recognized the accomplishments of the class of 2021 with dozens of honors and funds for college.
All told, 81 seniors walked away with more than $350,000 in college scholarships from nearly 40 local donor groups, according to Susanne Morrison, the administrative coordinator at Aspen High School’s post-secondary counseling department. Students also scored hundreds of thousands of dollars from regional and national awards, some of which include full ride scholarships for all four years of college (see sidebar).
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The DAR American History Essay Contest and the Good Citizens scholarship awards were presented at the Tuesday, February 9, 2021 meeting of the Mt. Diablo Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
The American History Essay Contest is open to students in grades five through eight in public, private, and parochial schools, and registered home-study programs. Essays are judged for historical accuracy, adherence to an assigned topic, organization of materials, interest, originality, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and neatness. Awards, including medals, certificates and monetary awards, were presented by Sharlene Rednour, Chapter Historian and American History Essay Chairperson. The winners were 5th Grade - Andrew Lin from Visions in Education Charter School, 6th Grade - Kiona McCasland from Bentley Middle School, 7th Grade - Ishaan Savla from Windermere Ranch Middle School, and 8th Grade - Audrey Lin from Visions in Education Charter School. Audrey Linn wa