At the October meeting on Monday, October 5, 2009 the New England Chapter of the SFPE awarded $7,000 in scholarships to five students. The recipient of the A.L. Scholarship was Richard Emberley, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) student. Additional $1,000 scholarships where awarded to Brandon Finzel and Tracy Golinveaux at WPI, Cathleen Childers at the University of Maryland, and Shawn Mahoney at the University of New Haven.
These scholarships were funded by the proceeds from our annual seminar in March and the raffles conducted during our monthly meeting. The chapter would like to acknowledge the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) for their generous donations of NFPA publications that are raffled as prizes during the monthly meetings.
Scholarship applications will be on our website and distributed to colleges offering a fire protection program in November with applications due January 31, 2010. Scholarship recipients will be announced at the May 2010 meeting and awarded in October 2010.