Paige Bean
Shawnee Mission East High School
Leawood, Kansas
Previous Scholarship Recipients
2024 Recipients
This is the Foundation’s 17th year of providing scholarships to talented high school and college students.
Once again, the Foundation received hundreds of applications from across the country. Along with their portfolio of work, recipients were chosen based on several criteria, including financial need, an essay, letters of reference and their school transcript.
The Foundation’s guest judges this year were Steve Bodinet, formerly of KTVK-KPHO, Channel 3, Phoenix and Elise Wilson, of Aspen PRO Media, Arizona.
High School:
Six high school students each received a Canon EOS Rebel T 100 DSLR Camera with lenses, battery, tripod and bag. (The Foundation normally awards cameras to only five students annually but because of the many worthy applications received this year decided to award a sixth.)
Tessah Burroughs
Hughson High School
Hickman, California
Allie Elton
Olathe South High School
Olathe, Kansas
Celeste Jenkins-O’Reilly
Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts
Fort Worth, Texas
Audrey Pullen
Paducah Tilghman High School
Paducah, Kentucky
Peize Wang
Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies
Glen Allen, Virginia
College Students:
Five college students each received a $2,500 scholarship, payable to their school. Three awards were for video work, while two awards were for still photography.
College Video Awards:
Jaden Merimee
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Azhalia Pottinger
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Karina Prieto
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
College Still Awards:
Eric Walker Hanson
Utah Valley University
Orem, Utah
Marissa Lindemann
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska