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Frontier Fiesta announces scholarship winners
Frontier Fiesta Association announces their annual scholarship winners. | Justin Cross/The Cougar
The Frontier Fiesta Association announced winners for their Leaders and Achievers program, awarding two current UH students, and two incoming students with scholarships.
The four winners, Mandy Nguyen, Vi Nguyen, Laura Reid and Sarah Alami will have a part of their college career funded by the association, after an extensive evaluation process with a 12 person review committee.
Vy Nguyen appreciated the award greatly, since she received it amid the ongoing pandemic.
“I am so grateful for being one of the recipients for this year’s Frontier Fiesta Leaders and Achievers Scholarship especially with the unprecedented events that have occurred this past year,” Nguyen said.
Frontier Fiesta takes a new form
Frontier Live featured socially-distanced concerts, arts, crafts and virtual events. | Haya Panjwani/The Cougar
Frontier Fiesta this year was a little different than usual.
In past years, Frontier Fiesta was a week-long affair with carnival rides, competitions, a cook-off and packed concerts. This year, the one thing that did stay the same was a week full of activities.
The event donned a new name, Fiesta Live, and adapted to the circumstances brought by the pandemic with new events like drive-in movies, socially distanced concerts and virtual events.
For Rachel Siba, a psychology freshman, this was her first chance to participate in activities with people in-person since moving on campus at the start of the year.