EAU CLAIRE – Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) students received over 400 scholarships totaling nearly $300,000 during the 2020-21 academic year. Often donors create scholarship funds to memorialize a loved one, or support a cause, but it all comes down to making a difference in the lives of the recipients. Recipients and donors are annually recognized at a scholarship reception each spring, which was cancelled this year due to the pandemic. Local students receiving scholarships included:
• Boyceville: Lisa Moore-Girard, Friends of Respiratory Therapy Scholarship – Second-Year Student – WSRC.
• Colfax: Stacy Winger, Bye, Goff & Rohde, Ltd., Paralegal Scholarship.
• Elk Mound: Cody-Lyn Harrison, Geri Wendt Memorial Accounting Endowment Scholarship and The Jim & Jennifer Rooney Family Foundation Program Scholarship; Dayna Kotecki, CVTC Nursing Faculty Scholarship and Karl & Vila Nygaard Memorial Nursing Scholarship – Continuing Student; Kimberly Carrillo, Ardis N. Mcafee Endowment Scholarship; Michael Hase, Auto Value – Eau Claire Auto Parts Scholarship, CVTC Education Association Scholarship, and Dairy State Bank Endowment Scholarship; Sara Schmidt, Brehm Family Endowment Scholarship.
