WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) will award $1,000
individual scholarships to 40 high school seniors or full-time
college students who participated in a FIRST Robotics Competition
or were a member of a FIRST Tech Challenge team. The scholarship
recipients hail from Alabama,
California, Texas and 15 other states.
The 2015 Raytheon-FIRST® Robotics
Scholarship program is aimed at FIRST (For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and Technology) alumni pursuing
undergraduate education as math, science, engineering or technology
majors. FIRST is a series of international robotics competitions
for middle and high school students.
Raytheon, a longstanding supporter of the FIRST Robotics
Competition and Tech Challenge, sponsors and mentors about 30 teams
each year. Seventeen Raytheon-mentored teams were among 600 teams
from around the world who competed at the international
championship in St. Louis,
Missouri, this spring. The company has offered the
Raytheon-FIRST Robotics Scholarship since 2003; to date, the
program has disbursed almost $500,000
in scholarships.
This year's recipients are:
- Alexander Anderson of
Eagan, Minn., attending
University of Rochester
- Alaleh Azhir of New York, N.Y., attending Johns Hopkins University
- Ameet Braganza of Santa Barbara, Calif., attending University of California: Los Angeles
- Nicholas Capdevila of
Huntington Beach, Calif.,
attending California Polytechnic State University San Luis
Obispo
- Trevor Case of Palm Harbor, Fla., attending University of South Florida
- Matthew Castleberry of
Hampton Cove, Ala., attending
Auburn University
- Caroline Chu of Fullerton, Calif., attending Cornell University
- Andrew Cordray of Owasso, Okla., attending Oklahoma State University
- Keet Curtis of Bainbridge Island, Wash., attending
University of Washington
- Adam Dai of Santa Barbara, Calif., attending California Institute of Technology
- Riley Davis of Lancaster, Mass., attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Benjamin Domae of Cerritos, Calif., attending University of California: Los Angeles
- Carl Fee of Fairfield, Mont., attending Montana State University
- Brian Healy of Ledyard, Conn., attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Seth Itow of Orange, Calif., attending University of Washington
- Mitchell Johnson of Flower Mound, Texas, attending University of Texas at Austin
- Claire Kerbs of Auburn, Wash., attending Washington State University
- Erick Locke of Huntington Beach, Calif., attending
University of California: Los
Angeles
- Blake Loncharich of Carmel, Ind., attending Webb Institute
- Martine Montgomery of Fleming
Island, Fla., attending Georgia Institute of
Technology
- Jeffrey Ng of Abington, Penn., attending University of Pennsylvania
- Stephanie Niu of Marietta, Ga., attending Stanford University
- Ryan Noe of East Peoria, Ill., attending Illinois Central College
- Derek Nola of Clovis, Calif., attending California
Polytechnic State University: San Luis
Obispo
- Boris Perkhounkov of Iowa City,
Iowa, attending Stanford
University
- Amanda Piergallini of
Maple Glen, Penn., attending
Millersville University of
Pennsylvania
- Rose Ridder of Port Townsend, Wash., attending Swarthmore College
- Andrew Rink of Puyallup, Wash., attending Washington State University
- Kent Roberts of Poway, Calif., attending University of California: Santa Cruz
- Casey Schneider of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., attending
University of California: San
Diego
- Joshua Schriever of Rock Rapids, Iowa, attending University of Northern Iowa
- Joshua Smith of Loveland, Colo., attending Colorado State University
- Richelle Smith of Los Altos, Calif., attending University of Southern California
- Anthony Stuart of Los Angeles, Calif., attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Brian Su of Santa Barbara, Calif., attending Stanford University
- Himakeerth Tammineedi of Edison,
N.J., attending Carnegie Mellon
University
- Daniel Teal of Austin, Texas, attending University of Texas at Austin
- Amanda Tenhoff of Eagan, Minn., attending University of St. Thomas
- Luke Waguespack of Conifer, Colo., attending School of Mines
- Andrew Zeller of Green Bay, Wis., attending University of Alabama
For more information about the Raytheon-FIRST Scholarship
Program, please visit www.mathmovesu.com.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of
$23 billion and 61,000 employees
worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in
defense, civil government and cybersecurity markets
throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 93
years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission
systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing;
effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence
systems, as well as cybersecurity and a broad range of mission
support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon,
visit us at www.raytheon.com and follow us on
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