Congratulations to Griselda Paredes! She is the proud recipient of the First General Bank-RUSD Scholarship! She will receive a scholarship in the amount of $1000 and will be recognized at the April RUSD board meeting on April 16th. Santana High School is very proud of Griselda’s accomplishments and achievements!
Way to go Griselda!
[UPDATE]
Griselda was also featured in an article on the Rowland Unified School District website, as seen below: Rowland Unified School District is proud to have community partners who support our schools. At the April 16 Board of Education Meeting, Wilson C. Mach, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer for First General Bank presented $5,000 in scholarship funds to the winners of the first annual First General Bank Scholarship for RUSD seniors from each of our high schools. The scholarship committee panel reviewed 38 student applicants and essays submitted that demonstrated students who had a financial need, academic excellence and leadership through school and community involvement to achieve their educational goal of college.
Griselda Paredes is a senior at Santana High School who is in the ACCEPT Program. Her powerful story moved the panel with her struggle as a teen mom. When her baby boy was diagnosed with asthma, her ambition focused and she has plans to become a pediatrician. Griselda has taken classes with the ROP Childcare Program and she also assists in the ACCEPT childcare center that currently has 20 children (newborn to three years old.) Her instructors shared that she works really hard and takes advantage of every opportunity possible to move ahead, is extremely responsible and gets along with her peers and teachers. Teacher Ms. Shannon Sailor shared that she likes to “soak up the knowledge” shared on what to expect in the stages of child development – cognitively, emotionally and physically- to use the knowledge not only as a Mom, but in the future in the medical field. Griselda enjoys helping community members with event planning, especially during the holidays with decorating and her hobbies include playing softball, dancing and a love of music. She wrote in her essay, “I want to show other teen moms that even when you feel hopeless and others tell you that you will not make it; you can do anything if you can continue to motivate yourself.” Griselda Paredes is the recipient of a First General Bank scholarship of $1,000.