UFT awards $1M in scholarships

Leann Stanick, a graduating senior at John Adams High School in Ozone Park, now dreams of becoming a corporate lawyer, and with the help of a $5,000 scholarship from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), she will take the first step toward her dream - attending college. The combination of Stanick's academic merit, financial need, and personal history led the UFT scholarship committee to select her as one of 41 Queens students to receive the award from the 37th Annual Albert Shanker College Scholarship Fund.
Of the 179 NYC students who won a total $1 million in scholarships from the UFT, Queens students - many of whom are new immigrants - received $205,000.
Stanick, along with her family, joined winners including Aaron Bell of Springfield Gardens High School, Mimi Yang of Forest Hills High School, Aye Kyaw of Newcomers High School, and Emily Hernandez of the Arts and Business High School for an awards banquet on Tuesday, June 6.
Other Queens scholarship winners were: Chez Brivett of George Washington Carver High School of Science; Warleny Colon, Abubakar Mian, Raquel Salcedo and Alyssa Wheeler of Franklin K. Lane High School; Hollyann Harper of Beach Channel High School; Kellie Wing Ki Chung, Jiwon Kang, Tharani Rajeswaran and Jiaying Wu of Benjamin Cardozo High School; Sharmin Ahmed, Xiao Wen Guan, Svetlana Khaimchavev, Christine Leung, Remington Stafford and Peter Zisopoulos of Francis Lewis High School; Hoy Ying Man of Martin Van Buren High School; Hind Alkandry and Daria Popescu of William Cullen Bryant High School; Cleopatra Haviaras of Long Island City High School; Chih Kai Chang of Flushing High School; Hina Ali and Tabitha Godsey of Richmond Hills High School; Ruth Wahid of John Adams High School; Tung Hoang, Israel Nunez and Roberto Saldarriaga of Grover Cleveland High School; Myriam Cohen and Sarah Fardoush of Bayside High School; Suvam Paul of Hillcrest High School; Janathan Olivo of Middle College High School at LaGuardia; Maryam Sultan of Townsend Harris High School; Tiffany Rivera of the Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute High School; Sabina Khan of the Baccalaureate School for Global Education; Angel Vasquez of Queens Vocational High School and Harpreet Kaur of Thomas A. Edison High School.