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Helping for 17 years: 2009 Bright Futures Scholarships awarded
This year, Kimberly-Clark celebrates the 17th year of the Bright Futures program and will award college scholarships totaling $1.56 million to 78 children of K-C employees across 17 states and Canada. Bright Futures scholarship grants are worth up to $20,000, or $5,000 per school year, for full-time students attending accredited colleges and universities. Since its inception, the program has awarded more than $30 million in scholarships to more than 1,500 students.
Recipients were chosen based on academic achievement, leadership and involvement in extracurricular activities.
"Kimberly-Clark created the Bright Futures Scholarship Program to help make a college education more accessible to employees’ children who demonstrate the potential to become the next generation of leaders in our communities," said Thomas J. Falk, chairman and CEO of Kimberly-Clark. “We salute the accomplishments of these capable and caring young citizens and are proud to award them these 2009 scholarships.”
The average GPA for this year's scholarship class is 3.96, and awardees will attend such top colleges as the University of Notre Dame, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Princeton, Stanford, Marquette, Emory and Clemson Universities. Past scholarship recipients have gone on to pursue successful careers in medicine, education, the armed forces and engineering.
View a list of this year's recipients and their accomplishments.
Where are they now?
For an update on some of our previous Bright Futures Scholarship recipients, please click here.
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