PWGC is rewarding excellence of three Long Island High School Seniors who were selected as winners of the 2024 Environmental Engineering Scholarship. With more than $2,000 of scholarship funding, PWGC celebrated Kylie Person, Michael Lascarides, and Lucy Tomasic with a luncheon on July 25th. Kylie, Michael, and Lucy were selected from a large pool of applicants who submitted essays on one of the following topics:
- Discuss the pros and cons of sustainable energy projects and their perceived community impacts.
- What environmental issue do you think is the most pressing on Long Island? Why and what do you think should be done?
- Offshore dumping of dredge spoils in Long Island Sound – What are other reasonable alternatives?
In addition, the applicants may have included their area of study and/or their career plans in the essay.
“I continue to be impressed with the knowledge and initiative that our scholarship winners demonstrate on their applications. As always, our winners demonstrate their commitment to bettering the world in their pursuit of their higher education. I wish them the best of luck and I hope to see their faces again as interns for PWGC,” said PWGC COO Jim Rhodes, PG.
PWGC has been rewarding excellence through the Environmental Engineering Scholarship for nearly 35 years. Since then, it has awarded nearly $35,000 to students with an interest in pursuing engineering and environmental science as a career.
All the awardees will pursue higher education opportunities this fall. Kylie will attend the University of Notre Dame studying Environmental Engineering, Michael will attend New York University studying Environmental Studies/Environmental Engineering, and Lucy will attend Stony Brook University studying Biology and Environmental Studies. We wish them the best as they advance in their educational journey and cannot wait to learn of their successes and achievements.
PWGC also provides an internship program every summer. The internship program allows students to incorporate their knowledge from the classroom into the real world. The hands-on experience is valuable to each student as they work towards their engineering and environmental degrees.
“There is a need for real world experience in addition to classroom lectures to achieve the best educational experience for engineering and environmental students,” explained PWGC President/CEO Paul K. Boyce, PE, PG.
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