Program offers college scholarship
Indiana Landmarks Black Heritage Preservation Program is offering a college scholarship for Indiana residents who identify as Black or African American and who are attending or planning to attend an accredited college or university.
One $20,000 scholarship to cover education-related expenses at an accredited college or university will be awarded for the 2024-25 school year.
Applicants must be a graduating high school senior, undergraduate, graduate student, or post-graduate. Preference will be given to the following majors: history, public history, African/African American studies, archaeology/anthropology, preservation, conservation, city planning, landscape architecture, and journalism. The deadline to apply is May 17 and the application can be found at indianalandmarks.org/black-heritage-preservation-program-scholarship/.
In addition, two full-time paid internship positions with the Black Heritage Preservation Program are available for this summer. Interns will be paid $22.50/hour per 37.5 hour work week for 11 weeks. Eligible applicants include graduating high school seniors, undergraduate and graduate students. Post-graduates dedicated to pursuing preservation careers are also eligible. The deadline to apply is May 17, 2024, and the application can be found at .indianalandmarks.org/black-heritage-preservation-program-internship/.
Learn more about the program at www.indianalandmarks.org.
Columbus student is poetry finalist
INDIANAPOLIS —Indiana Humanities announces the winners of the state contest of Poetry Out Loud. The student winners are Aalihya Banks from Pike High School, Indianapolis, in first place and Kylah Hockemeyer from Eagle Tech Academy, Columbia City, in second place.
Ishita Kute, Columbus North High School, was among the finalists who competed.
Poetry Out Loud—presented in partnership with the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC), National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation—is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country. Since the program began in 2005, more than 4.3 million students across the country have participated in Poetry Out Loud. On March 2, approximately 14 high school students participated in the Poetry Out Loud contest in downtown Indianapolis.
At the Indiana Historical Society, students recited works selected from an anthology of more than 1,200 poems. Judges evaluated student performances on criteria including voice and articulation, evidence of understanding, and accuracy. The judges for this year’s competition were Indiana State Poet Laureate Curtis Crisler, Mitchell L.H. Douglas, Siren Hand and Hiromi Yoshida, with Tony Brewer as the accuracy judge.
Banks will receive $200 and advance to the national Poetry Out Loud contest between April 30 and May 2 in Washington D.C., where $50,000 in awards and school stipends will be distributed. Pike High School will receive $500 for the purchase of poetry materials. Hockemeyer will receive $100, with $200 for Eagle Tech Academy. The Poetry Foundation provides and administers all aspects of the monetary prizes awarded and travel arrangements for the Poetry Out Loud National Finals.
Students named to Dean’s lists
Missouri University of Science and Technology
North Vernon: Addyson Kent
Minnesota North College
Columbus: Noah Kestler
