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JCC student awarded Coca-Cola scholarship
ATLANTA, Ga. – Amanda Thiel, a student at Jackson Community College, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Through the Coca-Cola Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program, the Foundation awards a total of 400 scholarships annually to students attending higher-education institutions granting two-year degrees. All recipients have demonstrated academic success and participated in community service within the past 12 months.
“The Coca-Cola Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program is an extension of our long-standing commitment to college education throughout the United States,” said J. Mark Davis, president of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. “This scholarship honors students who often balance responsibilities of school, work and family, but also find time to give back to their communities through volunteer service.”
Thiel is a distance learning student from Fort Wayne, Ind., who is completing her associate degree in general sonography online with JCC. She’s been taking classes through JCC for about two years now, and is currently doing her clinical at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne. She is married with two daughters, so she is busy with work, school and home life. She has managed to find time to help with a fundraiser for breast cancer, serving as captain at her workplace for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, as well as being site coordinator for Daffodil Days, another cancer fundraiser.
The Coca-Cola Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program is made possible with funding from the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation. The Whitehead Foundation provides grants in support of human services initiatives. The late Joseph B. Whitehead was one of the original bottlers of Coca-Cola.
The Coca-Cola Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program complements the Foundation’s Coca-Cola Scholars Program, which awards more than $3 million annually in college scholarships to 250 outstanding high school seniors. The Coca-Cola Scholars Program is one of the most recognized and respected corporate-sponsored scholarships in America.
The Coca-Cola Foundation is supported by the financial commitment of The Coca-Cola Company. The Foundation was created in 1986 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Coca-Cola and to establish a legacy for the education of tomorrow’s leaders. Now in its ninth year of funding the Coca-Cola Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program, the Foundation has provided $3.7 million in scholarship awards to students attending two-year degree-granting institutions and more than $35 million toward the Coca-Cola Scholars Program during the past 20 years.
