Drawing award
Oma Herrera of Emporia, fourth-year architecture student at Kansas State University received $50 and honorable mention for artistic abilities in the freehand, black and white category at the 16th annual Student Rendering Competiton sponsored by the KSU College of Architecture, Planning and Design.
Two scholarships
Bren Fisher of Emporia, who is studying biology and pre-optometry at Pittsburg State University, has received the Educational Opportunity Fund Scholarship and the Pittsburg State University Golf Athletic Scholarship. He is a member of the PSU Golf Team. Fisher, a graduate of Emporia High School, is the son of Bryan and Darlys Fisher of Emporia.
Join honor society
Two Kansas State University sophomore students, Anna Binder of Emporia, who is studying dietetics, and Kelsi Hinz of Americus, who is studying family studies and human services, were recently selected as members of Kappa Omicron, a national human ecology honor society that recognizes leadership, research and scholarship.
Entrepreneur award
Eric Dorsey and Jared Krause, both of Emporia and sophomore students at Kansas State University, received third place in the service division in the Next Big Thing competiton sponsored by the K-State Center for the Advancement for Entrepreneurship. Dorsey, studying business administration, and Krause, studying mass communications and computer science, were for “Bunchd, a Web application that provides communications efficiency software via the Internet to the Web browser desktop or mobile phone,” stated the press release.
Gets scholarship
Lindy Wiggins of Eureka received at $1,000 Julius Caesar Matli Endowed Scholarship and a $1,000 Joseph Fleming Memorial Continuing Scholarship at the Oklahoma State University College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources banquet held April 3. Wiggins is an agricultural communications major at OSU and the daughter of Mark and Rene Wiggins.