{"id":17549,"date":"2022-03-09T01:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=17549"},"modified":"2022-03-08T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T21:10:57","slug":"two-sv-community-school-seniors-recognized-for-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/two-sv-community-school-seniors-recognized-for-academic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Two SV Community School Seniors  Recognized For Academic Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17552\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mendoza_Maria_web-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mendoza_Maria_web-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mendoza_Maria_web-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mendoza_Maria_web.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sun Valley Community School senior Maria Mendoza has been named a semifinalist for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation\u2019s Cooke College Scholarship and senior Ben Colbeck was named a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mendoza was one of 411 student semifinalists chosen out of a pool of more than 5,300 applications. Semifinalist applications will be reviewed again to choose approximately 60 finalists to receive the scholarship. The 2022 Cooke College finalists will be announced in<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17553\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17553\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Colbeck_Ben_web-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Colbeck_Ben_web-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Colbeck_Ben_web-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Colbeck_Ben_web.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Mendoza and Ben Colbeck. Photo credits: Sun Valley Community School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">April. This highly selective scholarship provides high-achieving students with financial need up to $55,000 annually for four years of college, to enable them to attend a top college or university. Cooke College Scholars are selected based on exceptional academic ability and achievement, financial need, persistence, and leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As for Colbeck, the National Merit Scholarship Program recently named him a finalist from among 16,000 semifinalists named in September. Around half of the National Merit Scholarship Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship of $2,500, earning the title of National Merit Scholar title. National Merit Scholarship winners of 2021 will be publicly announced in the spring<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Valley Community School senior Maria Mendoza has been named a semifinalist for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation\u2019s Cooke College Scholarship and senior Ben Colbeck was named a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. Mendoza was one of 411 student semifinalists chosen out of a pool of more than 5,300 applications. Semifinalist applications will be reviewed again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education","7":"category-in-brief","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17556,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions\/17556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}