{"id":204093,"date":"2024-09-23T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=204093"},"modified":"2024-09-23T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:33:18","slug":"2024-coca-cola-leaders-of-promise-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/23\/2024-coca-cola-leaders-of-promise-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricafort, Nguyen named 2024 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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From left: Titi Ricafort, Mary Christine Nguyen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students from Leeward Community College<\/a> and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> have been named 2024 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars. Titi Ricafort and Mary Christine Nguyen will each receive a $1,000 scholarship. They were selected based on outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership potential from nearly 1,500 applicants.<\/p>\n

The Leaders of Promise Scholarship Program was launched in 2001 to help members of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK<\/abbr>), an honor society, obtain an associate degree and encourage participation in its programs. PTK<\/abbr> awards 200 scholarships annually—25 are earmarked for members who are active personnel or veterans of the U.S. Military or are military spouses.<\/p>\n

Titi Ricafort<\/h2>\n

Ricafort, a military spouse, was selected as a 2024 Coca-Cola Military Leaders of Promise Scholar.<\/p>\n

She has been a student of Leeward CC<\/abbr> since 2022 and joined Phi Theta Kappa in 2023. Ricafort serves PTK<\/abbr> at the chapter level for Leeward CC<\/abbr> and at the regional level as an officer. She is a member of the student activities board. She also serves on the Patient Advocacy Council at the Â鶹´«Ã½Cancer Center, and has been active in the community, supporting events and fundraising. She currently works in the residential mortgage industry.<\/p>\n

Ricafort said, “I am very honored to receive a most prestigious scholarship from Phi Theta Kappa.”<\/p>\n

Mary Christine Nguyen<\/h2>\n

Nguyen was selected as a 2024 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar.<\/p>\n

At Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr>, she earned a 4.0 grade point average, made the dean\u2019s list and serves as president for the campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. Nguyen also serves as Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr> student government treasurer and treasurer of the Administration of Justice Club. She is the vice president of Waiakea Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization board.<\/p>\n

Nguyen said, “I will be 50 in a couple of years, am an accountant, a newly single mother, a caregiver for a disabled mother, and have an autoimmune disease. While returning to school after all this time was hard, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr> has changed my life in so many ways for the better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leeward CC<\/abbr> student Tiiti Ricafort and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr> student Mary Christine Nguyen have each won $1,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[61,65,572,660,71],"class_list":["post-204093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204104,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204093\/revisions\/204104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}