2024 Scholarship 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.)

Paige Bean
Shawnee Mission East High School
Leawood, Kansas

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