April 30, 2007
Bowling
Green, Ky. - Cassandra Carathers, a senior at Butler County High School and participant in Western Kentucky University’s Upward Bound program, was named recipient of the Kentucky Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (KAEOPP) scholarship. Carathers has a 3.96 grade point average and is involved in numerous extracurricular activities at school.
KAEOPP awards a $350 scholarship to one Upward Bound student in the state of Kentucky every year. Scholarships are awarded to outstanding seniors who best represent the TRiO programs and demonstrate the qualities needed to be an achiever.
Carathers has been accepted to WKU, the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. As an undergraduate she will major in biology and then go on to become an ophthalmologist. She said attending college was a dream of her and her mother and “UB has been instrumental in helping me build the skills necessary to achieve my wildest dreams.”
More information on WKU’s Upward Bound program is available at www.wku.edu/upwardbound.
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