JSA names recipients of summer scholarships

The Junior Statesmen of America Foundation announced 10 Northern Marianas students who will receive summer school scholarships. Congratulations to Ana Ada, Allyssa Arangorin, and Christopher Santos (Kagman High School); Edu Mari Banaag, Deveney Dela Cruz, and Liezel Tiples (Marianas High School); Marquina Hofschneider (Tinian High School); Doyi Lee (Saipan Southern High School); Midori Nishida (Calvary Christian Academy); and Manatsu Omori (Marianas Baptist Academy). For the first time some students will attend a JSA Diplomat Program at Capitol Normal University in Beijing, China, while others study at Princeton, Stanford and Georgetown here in the U.S. They take college-level courses in American Government, American History, International Relations, Constitutional Law, Economics, U.S. Foreign Policy, politics and the media, speech and political communication, which prepare them for success at university and as Commonwealth leaders one day. The scholarships are worth about $7,000 and pay for tuition and other costs and come in part from money appropriated by Congress to the Department of the Interior and from local funds from the CNMI Public School System. In addition to the scholarship students, another fifteen high-schoolers have been accepted for JSA; and applications remain open until April 11, 2011. More information is available at www.jsa.org.