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Winning Characteristics Scholarship - 2009-2010 Recipients

The students listed below are the recipients of the Making It Count “Winning Characteristics” Scholarship for the 2009-2010 school year. Each student viewed a Making College & Career Count presentation at their high school and then wrote an essay demonstrating that they have developed at least three of the seven Winning Characteristics while in high school.

The Winning Characteristics, which are identified and discussed in the presentation, include: communication skills, organizational skills, leadership, logic, effort, group skills and entrepreneurship.

For her outstanding demonstration of the Making College & Career Count “Winning Characteristics,” this 2010 grad was awarded the first-place $2,500 “Winning Characteristics” Scholarship.

Brittany Dustman
Nazareth Academy High School
Philadelphia, PA
Temple University

These students also demonstrated the “Winning Characteristics” and were each awarded a $500 “Winning Characteristics” Runner-Up Scholarship.

Claire Knebl
St. Joseph High School
St. Joseph, MI
New York University

Alayna Eben
Tecumseh High School
New Carlisle, OH
Northern Illinois University

Click here to see the student finalists for the 2009-2010 scholarship.