{"id":36642,"date":"2015-08-18T19:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36642"},"modified":"2015-08-18T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:46:31","slug":"local-student-receives-take-stock-in-children-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/local-student-receives-take-stock-in-children-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Student Receives Take Stock in Children Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36643\" title=\"tsic logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tsic-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"295\" \/>Marissa Michnowicz is a Lehigh Senior High School junior who has been actively enrolled in The Foundation\u2019s Student Advocacy &amp; Mentoring Partnership (STAMP) program. Marissa has been dedicated to meeting the requirements of the STAMP program, including meeting with her mentor regularly, displaying exemplary behavior, and maintaining a 3.51 GPA and, as a result of her commitment to the program, she has been awarded a Take Stock in Children Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Take Stock in Children is a statewide scholarship program that provides a unique opportunity for deserving students from low-income homes to escape the cycle of poverty through education. The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools is the local administrator of the program; we offer our students college scholarships, caring volunteer mentors and hope for a better life.\u00a0 When students are accepted into the program, they sign a contract to maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA, stay crime- and drug-free, and meet with their mentor regularly.\u00a0 When they graduate from high school, having kept this commitment, they receive a four-year college tuition scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marissa Michnowicz is a Lehigh Senior High School junior who has been actively enrolled in The Foundation\u2019s Student Advocacy &amp; Mentoring Partnership (STAMP) program. Marissa has been dedicated to meeting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}