Lewis-Palmer High School’s Anya Burkhart is this one of this
year’s winners of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Rensselaer
Medal.
The Rensselaer Medal, the oldest prize of its kind in the United
States, is awarded by more than 3,700 secondary schools throughout
North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. This award is given
to students who have distinguished themselves in mathematics and
science. To be honored with the The Rensselaer Medal, a student
must be a member of the junior class and the high school’s single
most promising science and mathematics student.
Each medalist who is accepted and subsequently enrolls at
Rensselaer receives a scholarship of $60,000 payable in four yearly
awards of $15,000 each.
Monument’s Kyle Michael Shanahan received the Aaron Douglas
Scholarship for mechanical engineering at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln. The scholarship is one of several created in
1995 to identify and reward the most talented students from states
other than Nebraska who choose to attend UNL.