UPTON – Hard work and academic achievement of students, staff, and parents pays off for 85 Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School seniors who are the proud recipients of a John and Abigail Adams Scholarship.
The scholarship provides a credit toward tuition for up to eight semesters of undergraduate education at any Massachusetts public college or university, and they may want to further their vocational and career training with additional education, advanced training and credentials.
The first-time score on a high school Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam determines eligibility for an Adams scholarship. Adams Scholars receive free tuition at any Massachusetts public college or university, renewable for eight consecutive semesters or four years. Recipients must use the tuition credit in the first fall semester following their high school graduation and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or better.
The following students from Grafton were among the recipients:
Tyler Bell, James Benoit, Caitlin Brown, Connor Cohen, Carlie Jensen, Ethan Keenan, Soumith Madadi, George Mahassel, Ava Mills, Joshua Mumford, Grant Purcell, Lily Turcotte, Nicholas Valoras, John Wingate and Casey Wong.
