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Trenton Student Receives Burger King Scholarship
Recent Trenton High School graduate Natalie Dumais gets $1,000 toward college.
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The recent graduate of was awarded $1,000 from the Burger King Scholars Program according to a Burger King release.
Dumais was one of just 1,258 students nationwide and one of just 114 in Michigan to receive the scholarship.
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The eleventh annual Burger King Scholars Program has awarded more than $1.4 million in scholarships in 2011.
The scholarship winners were chosen "in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement, along with other academic and community involvement criteria" according to the release.
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"Scholarship funds come directly from the Have It Your Way Foundation and are made possible thanks to company and franchise-owned Burger King restaurants throughout the country that host a variety of fundraising activities in order to generate funds for scholarships each year" according to the release.
For more information on the program, including instructions for obtaining scholarship applications for 2012, visit haveityourwayfoundation.org.
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