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

April 20, 2017

Twenty senior Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology students have been awarded a one year $2,440 "completer grant" 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: Tashane Daley, Adam Dementov, Delroy Fong, Kristopher Gates, Christopher Gudiel, Rebecca Johnson, Christopher Joiner, Devika Maharaj, Aaron Moton, Mark Moussa, Tin Nguyen, Alyssa Nguyen, Brandon Papadakis, Cesar Payamps, Sterling Price, Parker Roach-Reasor, Daniel Sawyer, Sean Stange, Kenneth Willingham, and Nadia Wilson.