Forty-One Seniors At Nashoba Tech Qualify For Adams Scholarship

WESTFORD — The maximum number of seniors at Nashoba Valley Technical High School qualified to receive the John & Abigail Adams Scholarship.

Forty-one students, representing 25 percent of the senior class, qualified for the award, which provides free undergraduate tuition to state colleges and universities to students who score in the Advanced category in either the Mathematics or English Language Arts section of the 10th-grade MCAS test, and in the Proficient or Advanced category in the other section.

In addition, students must: have a combined MCAS score on those two assessments that ranks in the top 25 percent of their school district; be a permanent Massachusetts resident; be a United States citizen or eligible non-citizen; enroll in a postsecondary institution full time in the first traditional academic semester after high-school graduation; and complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

The following Westford seniors qualified for the scholarship: Joseph Bernardo, Joseph Clark, Ellen Horan, Shannon Pecora, Victoria Ronayne.

Pictured: Nashoba Tech seniors who qualified for the John & Abigail Adams Scholarship include: front row, from left, Stetson Lacombe (Groton), Brian Quin (Townsend), Nicholas DeSalvo (Chelmsford), Muaau Pau (Shirley) and John Hunt (Dunstable); second row, from left, Tyler Talmer (Pepperell), Nicholas Cieslik (Pepperell), William Falconer (Pepperell), John Santosuosso (Townsend), Ellen Horan (Westford), Alexis Tucker (Littleton) and Mikaela Berthiaume (Townsend); third row, from left, Christopher Schueler (Pepperell), Conner Eldridge (Littleton), Shannon Pecora (Westford), Joseph Clark (Westford), Kassandra Ducharme (Chelmsford), Terri Cadrette (Townsend) and Samuel Anuta (Ayer); and, back row, from left, Dominique Manning (Ayer), Carl Marzolini (Tewksbury), Ryan Hopkins (Littleton), Jacob White (Chelmsford), Molly Egan (Chelmsford) and Russell Byron-Kelly (Groton). Missing from photo are Joseph Bernardo (Westford), Alexander Bross (Pepperell), Ashley Considine, Philip Danek, Joshua Desrochers, Tia Donoghue (Pepperell), Veronique Escabi (Townsend), Mina Henes (Chelmsford), Liam Kilbride (Townsend), Erika Morin (Townsend), Sarah Murray (Pepperell), Haley Richards (Pepperell), Victoria Ronayne (Westford), Alexis Tucker (Littleton) and Amanda Woods (Townsend).