Chowchilla High student awarded $40K Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and Internship

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Diana Starn has wrapped up different twelvemonth of teaching students however to codification astatine Chowchilla High School.

The concern teacher takes pridefulness successful her students and pushes them to scope for the stars.

That's wherefore erstwhile she came crossed the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and Internship successful 2022, she encouraged her students to apply.

"I recovered retired astir it conscionable done email," Starn said.

The assistance awards students up to $40,000, $10,000 per twelvemonth of college.

To her delight, 1 of her students and Tech Club president, Antonio "AJ" Brasil, won.

"We were some truly surprised," Starn said.

With a triumph nether her belt, she knew she wanted her students to spell for it again.

"I decidedly pushed it this year," Starn said.

Francisco Aguilar, who goes by Frankie, says it was AJ's triumph that gave him the assurance to capable retired the application.

"I saw that if helium could win, I could besides person a accidental of winning from a tiny school," Frankie said.

Mrs. Starn wrote Frankie's proposal missive and, 4 months later, an Amazon bundle arrived connected Frankie's doorstep notifying him he'd won.

"I was conscionable truthful excited, similar jumping up and down," Frankie said.

Starn says she hopes these scholarships assistance physique assurance successful not conscionable Frankie, but each of her students that they tin bash immoderate they enactment their caput to.

"I conscionable deliberation it's truly important for them to truly realize, I tin beryllium successful that seat, I tin beryllium successful that boardroom," Starn said.

The assistance volition assistance Frankie arsenic helium heads to UC Berkeley successful the autumn to survey machine science.

"Having this other wealth is simply a truly large accent reliever for me," Frankie said.

He says it's besides felt bully to stock with his parents who didn't be assemblage themselves.

"They truly pushed acquisition connected maine - truthful present that they're seeing that each this has paid off, it truly makes maine blessed that I'm truly making them proud," Frankie said.

In summation to the scholarship, Frankie volition besides person the accidental to instrumentality portion successful a summertime internship with Amazon aft his freshman twelvemonth of college, that mode helium tin commencement gathering his resume.

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