Reynolds Community College educatee Angela Graves has been selected equally business office of the 6th course of report of the Valley Proteins Fellows Program, administered past times the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education.
A resident of Highland Springs, Virginia, Graves was the 2015-2016 Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Chapter President in addition to equally good ran for Phi Theta Kappa’s International Office of Vice President for Division I. Out of a record-breaking fifty International Officer Candidates, Graves finished 2nd inward her category.
During the 2015-2016 academic year, she equally good earned an Educational Book Scholarship in addition to Commonwealth Grant in addition to of late was awarded the Executive Women’s International/ASIST Scholarship.
“I experience peculiarly honored for beingness selected for the Valley Proteins Fellowship accolade because of its extreme competitiveness,” noted Graves who is currently serving equally a Reynolds Student Ambassador. “I am really grateful to the Smith brothers, their Valley Protein Fellowship Program, EWI/ASIST, Reynolds in addition to the VCCS.”
Out of the to a greater extent than than 400,000 people Virginia’s Community Colleges serve across the commonwealth, exclusively nine were selected for the Valley Proteins Fellows Program. The gauge value of the scholarship, accompanied alongside professional person development, travel, in addition to cultural opportunities, is $10,000.
The substance mission of the Valley Proteins Fellows Program is to assist promising, second-year students at Virginia’s Community Colleges pursue their academic goals in addition to strengthen their leadership skills. In add-on to receiving sum tuition, mass expenses in addition to fees, the Fellows participate inward a unique curriculum of intellectual in addition to cultural activities. The Fellows equally good volunteer fourscore hours of community service during the academic twelvemonth to hone their leadership abilities in addition to prepare a rigid foundation for futurity success.
Graves is already a veteran volunteer inward her community, working alongside the Richmond Folk Festival, Habitat for Humanity, BARK (Bandits for Rescued K9s), City of Richmond I AM TOURISM Ambassador, in addition to at Dominion RiverRock. Her goal is to major inward Information Technology alongside a focus inward networking in addition to cyber safety equally she continues on to her Bachelor’s score subsequently she graduates from Reynolds side past times side May.
The fellows programme is made possible through the generous back upwardly of Valley Proteins, Inc. The Winchester-based companionship has been inward the rendering trouble organization for to a greater extent than than threescore years in addition to currently operates plants inward Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, in addition to Texas. The administration of Valley Proteins is committed to outstanding corporate citizenship, splendid client service, technological conception in addition to back upwardly for the community college mission.
“My blood brother in addition to I are pleased to back upwardly the Valley Proteins Fellows programme because it provides us alongside the chance to prepare a to a greater extent than educated in addition to competitive Virginia,” said Gerald F. Smith, Jr., president of Valley Proteins, Inc.
“The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education is dedicated to expanding opportunities past times leveraging partnerships,” said Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges. “This programme is a keen example of the synergy that comes from joining together employers that are vested inward the lineament of tomorrow’s Virginia workforce in addition to the community colleges that nurture it every day.”
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