Paige Hargrave, Jsrcc’S Democracy Legacy Scholar For 2012-2013
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On Nov 13th the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education, whose mission is to assist Virginians across the democracy ameliorate their lives through education, held its annual Scholarship Luncheon to abide by the 2012-2013 Class of Commonwealth Legacy Scholars. Scholarships were awarded to twenty-five outstanding students throughout Virginia's Community Colleges, in addition to each holds a scholarship that bears the advert of a philanthropy leader at their college or foundation.
Paige Hargrave, of Mechanicsville is the recipient of the Anita in addition to Craig Waters Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. Paige is a goal-minded immature adult woman who began taking steps to hit her goals acre all the same inward high school. As a dual enrollment pupil at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in addition to Thomas Nelson Community College, she completed 14 college credits amongst a 4.0 marker shout out for average acre all the same inward high school.
Paige’s destination is to acquire a trauma surgeon. There are few experiences inward life to a greater extent than hard than watching a unopen job solid unit of measurement fellow member suffer a medical crisis acre yous stand upwardly yesteryear helplessly in addition to watch. After witnessing her woman nurture in addition to sis suffer several medical emergencies, these life-changing moments steered Paige on a path towards a career inward emergency medicine. To that end, a few years agone Paige earned her EMT-B license in addition to a lifeguard license thus that she no longer sits on the sidelines during medical emergencies. These skills allowed Paige to supply life-saving assistance to her woman nurture during a 3rd pump assault 2 years ago.
After completing an Associate inward Science marker at Reynolds, Paige plans to transfer to VCU to pursue a bachelor’s marker inward Biology, in addition to and thus buy the farm along to medical school. One 24-hour interval she hopes to operate amongst organizations such every bit Doctors without Borders in addition to locomote to unusual countries to process children amongst deformities and/or life-threatening illnesses.
In improver to beingness a full-time student, Paige industrial plant part-time to assist comprehend her expenses. In her gratis fourth dimension Paige has been inward preparation to run a 10k race to heighten coin for cancer research, learning Spanish, in addition to writing a novel.
The Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship Program was created inward 2006 to brand the community college sense available to bright, hardworking immature men in addition to women who desire to attend college only create non bring the means. These merit-based scholarships are awarded to first-time students attention 1 of Virginia’s 23 community colleges who exhibit academic excellence, effective leadership, mentoring skills, in addition to the potential to acquire ambassadors for community college education. For to a greater extent than data on this in addition to other scholarship opportunities at JSRCC delight see www.reynolds.edu.