Fifteen MCPS Students Receive Full-paid "Posse" Scholarships

January 10, 2012

Fifteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have been named recipients of full-paid, four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation.

The Posse program identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential that may have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes. Thirty-eight colleges and universities each offer full-tuition scholarships to students throughout the country and create multicultural teams—called Posses—on each campus. These student teams receive guidance before and throughout college and provide support to one another. On campus, these students serve in important leadership roles.

Posse programs are located in eight different regions—Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans and New York—and nearly 1,600 students were nominated nationwide for the scholarships. Posse D.C. awarded just 61 scholarships to students in Washington D.C.-area school districts.

This is the second consecutive year in which MCPS has had 15 Posse Foundation scholarship winners and this year’s recipients come from 12 different schools. They are:

• Irvin Cedillo, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, attending Lafayette College
• Elizabeth Olsen, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Natasha Frazier, Col. Zadok Magruder High School, attending Pepperdine University
• David Hylton, James Hubert Blake High School, attending Pepperdine University
• Audrey Loic Yatdon Tchoukoua, Montgomery Blair High School, attending Sewanee: The University of the South
• Affan Ahmad, Northwest High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ashton Cane, Paint Branch High School, attending Pepperdine University
• Ahmed Elnaiem, Richard Montgomery High School, attending Bucknell University
• Nicholas Chisholm, Rockville High School, attending Grinnell College
• Nailah Frye, Rockville High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Brianna Braswell, Seneca Valley High School, attending Lafayette College
• Ramzi Ebeid, Seneca Valley High School, attending Bucknell University
• Christian Mendoza, Walter Johnson High School, attending Lafayette College
• Stephanie Marquez, Wheaton High School, attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Kimberley Nidah, Winston Churchill High School, attending Bucknell University

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