Community Impact Scholarship Program (CISP)

Community Impact Scholarship Program (CISP) 2016-2017

APPROACHING THE FINISH LINE!

This is the first year that Casa Circulo Cultural offered the Community Impact Scholarship Program (CISP).

The deadline for scholarship applications was Monday, January 9, 2017

The purpose of this scholarship is to help inspire and encourage High School seniors wanting to continue and complete a higher education, while promoting community service with high impact programs in our communities.

There is no gender restriction.  The top scholarship award is up to $10,000; all other finalists will receive up to a $5,000 scholarship. Applicants must either live or attend High school in San Mateo County; be university-bound with excellent academic credentials; and submitted a service project proposal and two letters of recommendation. All applicants were both paper screened and were invited to a “shark tank” project proposal interview. 

On January 25^th, 2017 a jury composed of community leaders (Cristina Corpus- San Mateo County Sheriffs Office, Olivia Aranda- Atkinson Board Member, Misla Barco- Professor East Palo Alto Academy, Luis Garcia- Teacher, Connie Guerrero- Community Consultant, and Irma Lopez, Business Professional) selected five finalists to compete for the most impactful community service project that addresses community need.

The 2016-2017 CISP Finalists are:

• Holly Chen - Carlmont HS, Project focus: Children Autism
• Lauren Hayat - San Mateo HS, Project focus: Leadership Program for kids
• Nikos Maheras-Occhipinti - San Mateo HS, Project focus: ELD Peer Tutoring
• Elton Torres - Sequoia HS, Project focus: Youth At Risk
• Christabel Soria Mendoza - Woodside HS

The four finalists have had 12 weeks to execute and implement their proposed community service projects in/around their community. The deadline to complete the project is April 18^th, 2017. The finalists will present their projects to a second jury composed of community leaders on April 19^th, 2017, and select the first prize winner, as well as second, third and fourth place.

Please help us in congratulating the four finalists for this year’s Community Impact Scholarship Program 2016-2017! We wish them good luck in this last week to the finish line!

For more information on CISP please visit: http://www.cccisp.org/ 

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