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Scholar Stories

Our scholarship recipients are insightful and inspiring. Read their award-winning essays to learn more about them and their individual journey.

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Meet Our Scholars

Our scholarship recipients are insightful and inspiring. Read their award-winning essays to learn more about them and their individual journey.

MEET Sydney

Survivorship to me is living your own truth. Living your life without any model, actor, or tv show telling you how to look.

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MEET Sophia

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.

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MEET Tyler

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.

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MEET Nataleigh

I cannot say what my life would be like now if I had not battled cancer, but I can certainly say that the battle and its lessons have shaped my life significantly since. I do have scars, but I have grown as a person. Cancer did not kill me, and I am much stronger.

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MEET Gabriela

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.

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MEET Sangita

MEET Engelhardt Family Scholar

Looking back, my experiences with childhood cancer have taught me to always be inclusive and empathetic towards others.

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MEET Trey

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.

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MEET Emily

MEET Jean and Jeanine Spencer Scholar

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.

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MEET Malia

MEET Engelhardt Family Scholar

The tragedy that some viewed as catastrophic, I saw as a basis for my purpose in life.

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MEET Max

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.

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MEET Troy

MEET Engelhardt Family Scholar

As I look towards the future, the impact that cancer left on me will forever fuel my motivation to succeed.

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MEET Nina

MEET Jean and Jeanine Spencer Scholar

I am on a new path now, healthy, and surrounded by new friends, some old friends, and new experiences.

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MEET Nina

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.

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MEET Ryan

But now I have an opportunity to not only keep growing as a student and an engineer but as a person.

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MEET Ruby

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.

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MEET Piper

MEET Engelhardt Family Scholar

MEET Piper

Because of my difficult experience, and the people that helped me through my illness, my ultimate goal is to help others around me.

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MEET Mikari

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."

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MEET Madison

MEET Engelhardt Family Scholar

MEET Madison

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.

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MEET KellyAnne

My disease was nothing but a reminder that there is no fear as long as you don't show it.

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