Community Education News Briefs
Scholarships for women, summer camp for kids available
Minerva offering scholarships to women whose schooling has been interrupted
Minerva is accepting scholarship applications for the 2022-23 academic school year from women who live or work within Peninsula School District boundaries and who have had an interruption in post-secondary education of at least a year. Applications will be received through April 15.
The process includes completing an application downloaded from their website, providing three letters of recommendation and submitting sealed transcripts from previous or current institutions. Information should be sent to: The Minerva Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 2705, Gig Harbor, WA 98335.
Minerva has allocated $400,000 and more than 200 scholarships to Gig Harbor women since 1991, including over $50,000 to nine women in 2021. For more information, visit minervagigharbor.org.
Camp Corral, Boeing teaming up to send wounded warriors’ kids to Camp Seymour
Camp Corral, a provider of support and enrichment opportunities for the children of wounded, ill, and fallen military personnel, has received a $55,000 grant from Boeing to help send about 300 Washington state kids to summer camp at YMCA Camp Seymour on the Key Peninsula. The grant will help to provide them with opportunities to build peer connections and coping skills for overcoming everyday challenges.
The nonprofit’s free summer camps are designed to provide respite, build peer-support connections, strengthen self-confidence and reinforce coping skills for the children of wounded soldiers. Each weeklong, overnight camp empowers children with similar backgrounds to bond and form special connections through activities such as canoeing, rock climbing, and ziplining.
Boeing’s grant will also fund a local family camp program, an all-inclusive retreat for military families to gain values-oriented experiences that help build connections within the family unit and create lifelong memories.
For children unable to attend a camp in person, Camp Corral offers virtual enrichment and peer network programs to deliver support tailored to the unique experiences of the nation’s most vulnerable military children. For more information, visit www.campcorral.org/our-programs.