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Childhood Cancer Survivor Recipients
Scholarship Recipients 2025-2026
Aaron A
At center court seeing the faces of all of those I know that have been touched by cancer chanting for me, a cancer survivor, helped me realize my purpose in life.
Natalie B
My experiences and my family's experiences with my cancer treatment have inspired me to seek a career in medicine...Being a survivor myself, I will also be able to give hope to patients and families going through their own trials.
Emma B
I survived for a purpose...I choose to stay focused on aligning my gifts of kindness, compassion, and communication with my passion for making a positive difference in the lives of others.
Lily B
I don't think I could have ever made it this far or become the person I am today without experiencing my fight with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Madison C
Each hole now represents what my successful cancer treatment afforded me - the opportunity to aim high for my life, celebrate my healthy body, and make a positive impact on the lives of those around me.
Nina C
I am on a new path now, healthy, and surrounded by new friends, some old friends, and new experiences.
Olivia C
While having cancer may not steer my career path today, the experience as a whole gifted me with a compass that guides me to be inclusive and create community wherever I go.
KellyAnne C
My disease was nothing but a reminder that there is no fear as long as you don't show it.
Ryan D
But now I have an opportunity to not only keep growing as a student and an engineer but as a person.
Alana D
I want to teach others how to believe in conquering "the impossible," how to move past their limitations, even when it seems easier to give up.
Vivian E
The people I have met along this path have shown me what kindness, love, and generosity for others can accomplish, and as a teenager with cancer, my thoughts are now focused less upon myself and more on how I can make a difference in the lives of others.
Ava E
In the future, I want to help anyone who receives a cancer diagnosis. I didn't let cancer stop me.
Troy E
As I look towards the future, the impact that cancer left on me will forever fuel my motivation to succeed.
Gabriella F
I also rediscovered an interest I had lost since my diagnosis: a passion for medicine, and the empathy needed to bring light to darkness.
Max F
By using my own experience as a survivor and advocate, I hope to make a positive impact and bring hope to those who are fighting this disease.
Avani G
As many challenges come my way, I've seemed to create an increasingly picturesque mosaic through resilience, understanding, and self-exploration to overcome them.
Margaux H
Cancer has allowed me to help others impacted by childhood cancer through fundraising, advocacy, and volunteering, which has been the most rewarding experience of my life.
Sydney H
This experience has taught me to stop and smell the roses, to be an active participant instead of an observer, and to take advantage of all opportunities.
Malia H
The tragedy that some viewed as catastrophic, I saw as a basis for my purpose in life.
Emily H
Due to cancer, I gained closer bonds with my family and friends, I gained a love for leadership, I gained the courage to ask for help, and I gained an abundance of optimism.
Jonah H
From accepting seemingly incandescent burns from vaccines to making friends with the looming possibility of death, I know how far I am willing to go to give back and how rewarding it is.
Eliza K
Battling cancer at age 13 produced in me unusual endurance and perseverance to face physical and emotional challenges in life, a heightened enjoyment of every blessing along the way, and a drive to pursue a career in nursing.
Ruby K
My journey as a survivor has exposed me to the importance of understanding not only the broken but the rebuilt; my sickness broke me but left me with pieces perfect to build the strongest tower I could.
Aurora K
The perspective cancer gave me is life is wonderful, and to care for others, because we aren't alone. No matter the challenges I have faced, I was determined to get through them.
Isabella L
"Life is too short to sit around waiting, and if I can inspire others with my story to take life by the horns, I will. I want to help others see the world from my unique perspective as a survivor."
Trey L
I know from experience my goals and dreams can change based on life's surprises. As long as I put in the work, have patience, and make decisions based on what is best for me, I'll be ready for whatever my future holds.
Alejandrina M
"I want to use my skills with art to make the world a better place. To inspire good and allow people with similar experiences to rise beyond their circumstances."
Cole M
Forever grateful for the endless support I received, I made it my mission to reciprocate it by raising money and awareness for the hospital and pediatric cancer non-profits.
Jaiden M
NCCS will help me positively impact the struggling community of cancer warriors by allowing me to use my time to innovate and stay dedicated to my studies instead of working to pay for college.
Nino P
I look forward to being able to fully immerse myself in my passions, and find and create the support that keeps us thriving. Soon enough, I'll be giving back to my community in ways I've dreamed about for over a decade, and I'll know exactly who to thank.
Tyler R
Cancer, paradoxically, strengthened a young man in love with life who aspires to conquer challenges and solve problems. I've applied this grit in many ways over the past decade and am ready to change the world.
Gabi R
I want to show other kids battling cancer they can still live life to the fullest and be normal kids; cancer doesn't define us.
Alexandra S
I realize that I matured through my treatment and as I moved through survivorship. My eyes were opened to the hardships of others, and I became more empathetic for those going through what I now have behind me.
David S
What matters is how you spend your impermanence: either chasing after superficial numerical values that can't define a person or living each moment like it's your last and squeezing the life out of every drop of joy it can offer you.
Emma S
Cancer helped me to see that I want to help people who are like me, and I have created my career path based on this. With guidance and positivity, I know I can make this goal and idea I was given a reality.
Josephine S
Surviving cancer has changed the goals I have for my education and my future career. More importantly, cancer has changed who I am. I am a survivor and I always will be!
Brayden S
This scholarship will help catapult me into my continued desire to help others without debt slowing me down. Serving others will always be a part of my story and as I enter adulthood it's exciting to watch it unfold.
Audrey T
"Perspective" is a word always present in my home. We see things differently than most. We don't sweat the small things, we celebrate them.
Devan T
Surviving cancer has made me grateful for life's highs-and even its lows. Simply being alive is a blessing. Survival has made me attuned to people's hidden struggles, and I never take for granted waking up each morning.
Ella T
I have grown to be resilient, empathetic, and knowledgeable through my journey with cancer. I am more than capable of taking a leap of faith, and embarking on this path.
Sophia T
My diagnosis does not define who I am, but it has changed my outlook on life and turned me into the person I am today.
Mikari T
When I doubted whether I could be stronger than this disease, the voice would cry out, "Fight it, conquer it, and live to tell your story."
Isabella T
My encounter with cancer ceased to be a negative experience as soon as I shifted my perspective. Armed with humor and hopefulness, I refashioned the hardships my illness bestowed upon me into tools that shared an optimistic outlook with others.
Katelyn T
We cannot always control the obstacles in our path, but we can control the new direction we take onward.
Sydney V
Survivorship to me is living your own truth. Living your life without any model, actor, or tv show telling you how to look.
Jack W
Maybe I wanted to be viewed as more than the boy, but in neglecting him, I made myself less than I am with him by my side. He is my foundation. He is a survivor...He is a miraculous and unforgettable gift.
Alexis W
Before my diagnosis, I was living a carefree life that was a bit self centered. Now, after this cancer journey, I have been given life lessons that many people twice my age have and never will experience. This experience has increased my faith in God and my story of hope and resilience.
Piper W
Because of my difficult experience, and the people that helped me through my illness, my ultimate goal is to help others around me.
Montana Z
Life is often unpredictable. It is easy to get caught up in wondering why something happened, but cancer taught me that its not about what you could have done to prevent it, its about what you make out of your situation.
Iphia Z
Cancer has inspired me to make an impact, and I want to do so by studying cellular and molecular biology in college, and then pursuing a graduate degree in cancer research, aiming to advance science's understanding of cancer and bring medicine closer to a cure.