March 2017 Education


Hampton Roads Educators’ Credit Union partners with Thomas Nelson Community College to support athletics


www.hamptonroadsmessenger.com


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FIRST Robotics Competition to be held at Churchland High School


Dr. John Dever, College President; Malik White, Student-Athlete; Dione James, Assistant Women’s Coach; Desiree Jones, Student-Athlete; Chris Payne, Student- Athlete; Karen Orie, HRECU-CEO; Candis Jones, HRECU-Marketing Coordinator; William Trimble, Jr., HRECU-Board Chairman; Dr. Vicki Richmond, Associate Vice- President; Chad Smith, Coordinator of Athletics


Hampton Roads Educators’ Credit Union has embarked on a new partnership with Thomas Nelson Community College in support of their growing athletic department by presenting a check for $7,500 to the athletics department. We could not be prouder to continue to support the students, faculty and staff at this great institution. This partnership will provide much needed uniforms for both the Men and Women’s basketball team, create new opportunities for financial literacy programs and workshops, as well as continue to focus on supporting higher education with a scholarship available only to Thomas Nelson students and faculty in the near future. We look forward with excitement for all of the new opportunities to serve our community that this new partnership will bring. We hope that you will join us at Bethel High School in support of the Thomas Nelson Gators’ basketball team when they have home games. For more information about HRECU, call 757-838-0707 or visit www. hrecu.org.


More than 1,000 students of


40 of the best and brightest high school robotics teams in Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland, will converge on Churchland High School for the FIRST Chesapeake District Hampton Roads Event on March 18-19. FIRST is an acronym-


Recognition


For Inspiration of Science


and and


Technology, and the FIRST event is a robotics competition designed to test teamwork and ingenuity of the teams.


The Portsmouth Public Schools


team in the competition is made up of 25 STEM students from the three Portsmouth High Schools— Churchland,


I.C.Norcom, and Woodrow Wilson.


During the two-day competition, the teams will face off


Scholarship Watch Ray Greenly Scholarship


to move on to the second phase of application process.


In the second phase, applicants


the will be


required to submit a five-page paper on a company specific case study, letter


of


recommendation, resume and headshot. Applicants


will be


notified by April 7 if they have been selected to move on to this phase and will receive their assigned case study. The application


deadline Website: nrf.com/career-center/


scholarships/ray-greenly-scholarship Address: 1101 New York Avenue, NW Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005 Email: scholarships@nrf.com Application Deadline: April 3, 2017 (for phase one) Maximum Amount: $25,000 Scholarship Description The


Ray Greenly scholarship


application process consists of two phases. In the first phase applicants are required to submit an essay, personal brand video and school transcripts. There


for phase two is


Monday, June 26 at 11:59pm Eastern Time.


A panel of retail executive judges will determine up to 25 applicants to receive a travel scholarship to cover student’s registration and expenses to attend the 2017 Shop.org Summit in Los Angeles, CA. Travel scholarships will be paid directly to the student’s school.


will be short review period during which applicants will be selected


Five finalists will then be selected from the group of up to 25 students to receive scholarships. The scholarship amounts available are: One $25,000


scholarship for the top recipient and four $10,000 scholarships. Scholarship proceeds will be made payable to the educational


institution at which the


student is enrolled. Eligibility: 1. Applicant must be a sophomore, junior or senior or a graduate student who is enrolled


full-time at any


U.S. college or university when the scholarship is awarded in September 2016.


2. Applicant must be a U.S. Citizen or a legal U.S. resident eligible to work in the United States and at least eighteen years of age (nineteen (19) years in Alabama, Delaware and Nebraska; twenty-one (21) years in Mississippi) at least from the time of entry. Students younger than the ages listed can only enter with written consent of their parent or legal guardian.


3. Applicant must have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale. 4. To be considered for a scholarship, each applicant must: a. Complete the application form and submit an innovation essay, a personal brand video


and transcript no later


than 11:59 p.m. ET on April 3, 2017. b. If selected based upon submissions listed above, participate in a telephone call (no more than one hour in duration) with retail representatives to discuss the case study portion of the application during the week of April 10, 2017 c. Submit a case study, letter


of


recommendation, headshot, and resume to NRF Foundation no later than 11:59


For a listing of more scholarships visit: hamptonroadsmessenger.com


with their robots that they designed, programmed, and built in six weeks using their


own inventiveness.


The event is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Churchland High School, located at 4301 Cedar Lane.


Event Highlights:


Friday, March 17 • 4-6 p.m. Set-up for the competition


Saturday, March 18 • 10 a.m. - Opening Ceremony in the Gymnasium


Awards Ceremony 5-6 p.m. For more information on the


Sunday, March 19 • 9 a.m. -


competition, the robotics challenge, and the sponsor- Newport News Shipbuilding, please refer to the official FIRST Chesapeake news release at: www.portsmouthva.gov/ DocumentCenter/View/2360.


p.m. ET on June 26, 2017. 5. Each applicant


selected as a


semi-finalist based on the information listed above in paragraph 4 must attend the 2017 Shop.org Digital Summit in Los Angeles, CA and its pre-event activities on September 25-26, 2017. In the event that the NRF Foundation provides travel funds to a semi-final- ist's school on behalf of a semi-finalist who does not attend the Summit, the travel funds will be rescinded and the school will promptly return the travel funds for the semi-finalist to the NRF Foundation within five business days of the last day of the Summit.


6. Each finalist must interview with retail


the NRF Foundation provides executives on Sunday,


September 24, 2017 to be eligible to receive a scholarship. In the event that


travel funds to a finalist's school on behalf of a finalist who is unable to interview with executives, the travel funds will be rescinded, and the school will promptly return the travel funds for the finalist to the NRF Foundation within five business days of the end of the Summit.


7. Employees, officers, and directors of National Retail


Federation and


NRF Foundation and members of their household and immediate families are not eligible to apply for or to receive the scholarship. In addition, 2016 Ray Greenly Scholarship semi-finalists and finalists and NRF Foundation's Next Generation Scholarship finalists are not eligible to apply for or to receive the Scholarship.


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