GCS Students Receive Coca-Cola Scholarships

Contact: Laurie Hogan (336) 370-8307
Created: 5/7/2009 4:29:08 PM

Two GCS students received $10,000 scholarships from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Robert French, a senior at High Point Central High, and Andres Ballesteros, a senior at Southwest High, were selected for their academic excellence, school involvement and community leadership.

French is receiving an International Baccalaureate Diploma from High Point Central and will be attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall. Ballesteros will attend Harvard University in the fall to study music composition.

French and Ballesteros were selected by the Coca−Cola Scholars Foundation as scholarship finalists from a field of more than 2,100 semifinalists and an initial applicant pool of more than 74,000 high school seniors. The scholarships are sponsored by the local Coca−Cola Bottler and The Coca−Cola Company.

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