{"id":40854,"date":"2021-07-27T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T17:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/?p=40854"},"modified":"2021-07-30T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:10:42","slug":"2021-scholarships-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/2021-scholarships-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Scholarships Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Chapter presented two conservation minded local students with scholarships. The scholarship awards were presented by David Perdue, the chapter&#8217;s Scholarship Committee chair, during the July 21st member&#8217;s meeting.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40855\" src=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01865-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01865-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01865-150x139.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01865-162x150.jpg 162w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01865.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hickory High School graduate, Connor Kimener (left) received a $1,000.00 scholarship from our chapter for 2021. Connor was selected from several applicants for this year&#8217;s award. This fall he will be attending Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg Virginia and will be majoring in Conservation Biology with a minor in Environmental Sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Polytechnic and State University senior, Elijah Hoar (below) received one of only two $2,500.00 National IWLA Conservation scholarship awards for 2021. Eli previously received one of our chapter&#8217;s scholarship awards in both 2018 and\u00a0 2019. As a result of having received a chapter scholarship, he was eligible to apply for a National IWLA scholarship. He is pursuing his degree in Agronomy. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40857 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01863-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01863-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01863-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01863-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01863-217x150.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/lores_DSC01863.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Chapter presented two conservation minded local students with scholarships. The scholarship awards were presented by David Perdue, the chapter&#8217;s Scholarship Committee chair, during the July 21st member&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-education","category-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}