Building a Better World

This site will be a place for Oakridge Students to go to find scholarships and those who support Oakridge kids can go to donate to Building A Better World Scholarship.  Our mission with both is to open doors for as many of our students as possible, so that they move on to higher education and so that they can help us all to “Build a Better World.”

The 2010 OEA Building A Better World Scholarship winners:

• Nyssa Swanson – Global Awareness ($1000)
• Ariel Burrington – Global Awareness ($1000)
• Shelby Cardinal – Community Involvement ($1000)

Congratulations to Nyssa, Ariel, and Shelby.  Our 2010 winners are already on their way.   Each is enrolled and attending college full time – Ariel and Nyssa at Ferris and Shelby at MCC.  With the quality of the Global Awareness and Community Involvement applications, we decided not to select a Travel recipient in 2010 and instead doubled up on Global Awareness.  Please check separate links highlighted above to listen in to conversations with each of our three winners.  Nice job ladies.

The 2008 OEA Building A Better World Scholarship winners are:

• Rebecca Houseman – Global Awareness ($1000)
• Dani Patton – Global Awareness / Travel  ($1000)
• Margarita Contreras– Independent Travel ($1000)

Congratulations to Rebecca, Dani, and Margarita.  This year we had a couple of firsts.  We gave out our first combination Global Awareness / Travel scholarship to Dani Patton for a planned semester abroad at Northern Michigan University.  And Rebecca Houseman in addition to winning her own scholarship will be Margarita’s travel companion when they go to Portland, Oregon later this summer.  Please check separate links highlighted above to get a better insight into each of these fine young graduates.  Way to go gals.