August 2015


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Local Student Niya Gray Wins Scholarship


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Green Pest Services’ main focus is on providing satisfaction guaranteed pest control. However, they also take and pride themselves on community support and commitment to education. To demonstrate this, they decided to start a scholarship fund to help a lucky high school graduate with their college education.


Niya Gray, recently graduated


Kecoughtan High School and has been accepted


to study


at the prestigious College of William and Mary in Virginia. She plans on studying neuroscience.


pushed herself to be a model student


AP courses


Niya at


school, maintaining a 4.0 GPA with a class schedule including mainly


during her final years at school. She credits her mom and her


grandparents


for teaching her the importance of excelling scholastically. Niya encouraged


her


classmates to do the same, advising students as a peer mentor and cheering on KHS athletes as a cheer captain. She was involved


organizations


in various outside


of class, participating in the French Club and National Honor Society as well as volunteering


for the


Hampton YMCA in the summer. She attends


church at


Calvary Community Church and works with the youth group there.


Niya’s desire to help others is evident in her career path as she wants to study neuroscience in hopes of finding cures for neurological diseases. She wants to be a part of the research side of this field. Niya planned on working


One scholarship winner, from


the first part of the summer, and also will attend a leadership orientation for entering freshman from a diverse background and a strong academic record in New York City. We are proud to help Niya in her pursuit of higher education. She has shown the morals, integrity, and work ethic that this award represents. We wish you the best in this next chapter in your life! Congratulations!


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