Fifteen MCPS Students Receive Full-Tuition Posse Scholarships

Fifteen MCPS students have been named recipients of full-tuition, 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.

Nationally, more than 65 colleges and universities each offer full-tuition, merit scholarships to students throughout the country and create multicultural teams—called Posses—on each campus. These student teams receive professional guidance before and throughout college and provide support to one another.

On campus, these students serve in important leadership roles. The MCPS students were honored at a ceremony at the Lincoln Theatre on Jan. 8.

This year’s recipients come from 11 high schools and will attend six different colleges. The Posse Scholar students from MCPS and the colleges they will be attending are:

James Hubert Blake High School

Sabrina Isayas, Lafayette College
Amber Johnson, Bucknell University

Thomas Edison High School of Technology

Love Shama Georges, Lafayette College

Albert Einstein High School

Khadidiatou (Khadi) Ndiaye, Lewis & Clark College

Walter Johnson High School

Candice Nsoga-Mahob, Lafayette College

Northwood High School

Shelby Wilson, Sewanee: The University of the South

Poolesville High School

Sandriene Wiggins, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rockville High School

German Diaz-Pena, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Marvin Kongo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Seneca Valley High School

Kaia Sanders, University of Rochester

Walt Whitman High School

Devin Kim, Lewis & Clark College

Watkins Mill High School

Eva Lake Olan, Sewanee: The University of the South
Niharika Wadehra, University of Rochester

Thomas S. Wootton High School

Ricardo Gomez Vera, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Miguel Uriarte-Giron, Bucknell University