{"id":6770,"date":"2026-05-28T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:58:12","slug":"rotary-announces-2026-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/rotary-announces-2026-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotary Announces 2026 Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winning students are flanked by the members of the Rotary Scholarship Committee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is pleased to announce the winners of its annual scholarship program for Derby and Shelton High School students. Scholarship Committee Chair Ed Sheehy announced the awards at the weekly club meeting on May 28 at the Brownson Country Club. All of the winning students were in attendance along with their proud parents and administrators from both schools. Watch for more pictures later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s awardees are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scholarship<\/td>Amount<\/td>Student<\/td>School<\/td><\/tr>
Derby HS 4 year<\/td>$8,000<\/td>Alison Echeverria – Soto<\/td>Derby<\/td><\/tr>
President’s (Derby)<\/td>$1,000<\/td>Genesis Alvardo<\/td>Derby<\/td><\/tr>
Technology & Arts<\/td>$1,500<\/td>Danny Hilser<\/td>Shelton<\/td><\/tr>
Deceased Rotarians<\/td>$1,500<\/td>Sofia Rudus<\/td>Derby<\/td><\/tr>
Shelton HS 4 year<\/td>$8,000<\/td>Scarlett Kovarczi<\/td>Shelton<\/td><\/tr>
President’s (Shelton)<\/td>$1,000<\/td>Nathaniel Sosa<\/td>Shelton<\/td><\/tr>
Sporting Activity<\/td>$1,500<\/td>Giancarlo Rubio<\/td>Shelton<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Each of the awardees gave a quick update at the meeting highlighting their experiences and the colleges they will be attending next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The members of the committee in addition to Ed Sheehy were Rotarians Rosemary Allen, Pat Carey, Lucy Andrade, and Kim Caro as well as administrators Jen Moffet of Derby High School and Lisa Sapienza Girard of Shelton High School.,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Alison<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Scarlett<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Giancarlo<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Nataniel<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Genesis<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Danny<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Sofia<\/figure>\n
2026 Scholarship Winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Derby Winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Derby Winners and family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Derby Winners with families & administrators<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shelton Winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shelton Winers & families<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is pleased to announce the winners of its annual scholarship program for Derby and Shelton High School students. Scholarship Committee Chair Ed Sheehy announced the awards at the weekly club meeting on May 28 at the Brownson Country Club. All of the winning students were in attendance along with their proud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","category-scholarships","tag-scholarship","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}