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Flit-Path “Cohort A” scholarships granted to fourteen pre-CS, CpE, and IT students

April 20, 2017

Fourteen first-year Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology students have been awarded a four-year $20,000 scholarship as part of the Department's NSF S-STEM Flit-Path project. The scholarships are part of a $5 million, five-year grant from NSF awarded to USF, UCF, and FIU in support of the collaborative Florida IT Pathways to Success project. FIU was the lead partner in the grant and will be responsible for project administration and reporting. The grant is designed to remove financial barriers and increase the number of graduates. The goals of the project, which build on a previously awarded TEAm Grant from the Florida Board of Governors, includes recruiting, retaining, and providing scholarships and other support to academically talented students in IT-related disciplines.

The students awarded the scholarship (and shown below not in the order listed here) are: Marisela Acevedo, Nicholas Estrada, Kennedy Hall, Mihail Kaburis, Ayman Nagi, My Tran Nguyen, Aneesha Olibrice, Alexander Palasek, Zima Patel, Angelo Rittacco, Jody Rutter, Denislav Tsonev, Marta Wilczynski, and Mary Wilson.