  {"id":30465,"date":"2014-12-23T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=30465"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T01:18:40","slug":"leeward-students-awarded-grainger-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/23\/leeward-students-awarded-grainger-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeward students awarded Grainger scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_30467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30467\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/leeward-grainger-scholarship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"336\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/leeward-grainger-scholarship.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/leeward-grainger-scholarship-260x140.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent Niotta and Ryan Abella, center,  with Grainger and Leeward Communtiy College representatives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two of Leeward Community College&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/auto\">automotive technology <\/a>majors were selected for Grainger&#8217;s Tools for Tomorrow&reg; scholarship program. <strong>Vincent Niotta<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan Abella<\/strong> each received a $2,000 scholarship to assist with completion of their academic studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grainger.com\/\">Grainger<\/a>, a local distributor of products used to maintain, repair or operate facilities, offers the scholarship for tuition and books to 250 outstanding students each year who are earning associate&#8217;s degrees or certificates in skilled trade and public safety programs at 125 community colleges across the country. Niotta and Abella are the only students in the state to be selected.<\/p>\n<p>Grainger is proud to partner with community colleges and help students get the education and resources they need to successfully join the workforce. Students also receive a customized Westward&reg; toolkit upon graduation to jump start their career.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are especially grateful to Grainger for their strong commitment to our career and technical programs,&rdquo; said Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Chancellor <strong>Manny Cabral<\/strong>. &ldquo;These scholarship awards meet a critical need for our students as the price of books and tools continue to increase. It&#8217;s an honor to have the our automotive students represent the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kathleen Cabral<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> automotive technology majors Vincent Niotta and Ryan Abella receive $2,000 scholarships from Grainger&#8217;s Tools for Tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[70,65,572,660],"class_list":["post-30465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-automotive-technology","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465","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=30465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149798,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions\/149798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}