Contact Information: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Marc R. Levy, Executive Director
Questa Foundation for Education
260-407-6494
The Questa Education Foundation is proud to announce the 2016-2017 Questa Scholars who will receive financial support for their college educations. This year was another record-setting year with almost 350 completed applications from all over our eleven county region in Northeast Indiana. Thanks to our collaborative programming with communities, seventy Traditional Scholars have been awarded low-interest forgivable loans in the first phase of our award year. Contemporary Scholars have yet to be chosen.
The intent of this funding is to help increase access and completion of a post-secondary education with reduced debt and to retain talent in Northeast Indiana. Questa Scholars get a commitment and assurance of funding for up to four years of college at an accredited school. Scholars are chosen via a multi-level assessment process based on not only grade point average, but also community involvement and an essay explaining how they plan to contribute to the economy of Northeast Indiana as a Questa graduate.
This year we are proud to announce that Adams County has joined Questa, along with other communities, and as a result four of our funded scholars are from Adams County. Questa continues to seek new and innovative partnerships to increase our number of scholars.
The following are the new Questa Scholars and where they will attend college:
Anderson University: Mary Greuter, Heather Stichter
Ball State University: Kendra Shadle, Rachel DePew
Bethel College: Sidney Sprunger, Loren Hahn
Grace College: Ashley Osborn, Jacob Scheele, Rebekah Zvers, Ian Kissell, Taylor Fouts, Andrea Ledgerwood
Holy Cross: Maria Barrera
Huntington University: Karley Hockemeyer, Tori Dan, Kari Riehle, Alexandra Tinsley, Carly Snyder
Indiana State: Alyssa Grothaus
Indiana Tech: Zachary Davis, Giselle Miller, Blake Davis, Kirsten Wolf
IPFW: Ashten Worth, Caleb DeLieto, Cassidy Forbing, Trever Kraner, Rylee Marks, Erin Olinger, Soe San, Paige Stutzman, Ian Thompson, Nicole Winans, Dalton Adams, Garett Chrisman, William Stayner
IU Bloomington: Alexys Copeland, Tori Eastes, Gabriela Reina, Terry Randol
IU South Bend: Andrew Aguilar
IUPUI: Scott Creech, Courtney McGrew
Ivy Tech Northeast: Bailey Thompson
Indiana Wesleyan: Kimberlie Kline, Kyle Pessefall, Laci Vickery, Bryce Daniels
Manchester University: Sarah Shoemaker, Ethan Zhou
Purdue W Lafayette: John Crook, Joshua Hiatt, Leah Schroeder
Rose Hulman Institute: Bailey Sheldon, Gavin LaRue
Saint Mary’s College: YeYe Tin
Taylor University: Danielle Straits
Trine University: Janaya Wilder, Stone Miguel, Morgan Sanderson, Jarod Davis, Logan Gonya, Heather Fritz
University of Indianapolis: Emily Koehlinger
University of Southern Indiana: Alexandra Harvey
University of St. Francis: Juan Gonzalez Rangel, Isabelle Harrison, Sara Livengood
Valparaiso University: Emily Hughes, Anna Bulmahn