Awards Will Assist Students For The 2015-16 Academic Year
The Aircraft Electronics Association's Educational Foundation announced the names of 24 individuals who were awarded individual scholarships worth more than $125,000 for the 2015-16 academic year.
This year, the AEA was honored to administer the inaugural Marshall Temple Memorial Scholarship for the first time. Temple founded Temple Electronics, and his company has been an AEA member since 1974. He passed away Nov. 16, 2014, at the age of 85.
AEA scholarships and the individual recipients for the 2015-16 academic year include:
Leon Harris/Les Nichols Memorial Scholarship to Spartan College of Aeronautics & Technology: Christopher Almanza, Forest Hill, Texas
Tom Taylor Memorial Scholarship to Spartan College of Aeronautics & Technology: Zach Evans, Genoa City, Wisconsin
Gogo Business Aviation Scholarship: Justin Hughes, Marshall, Michigan
Garmin - Jerry Smith Memorial Scholarship: Christian Salata, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Universal Avionics Systems Corp. Scholarship: Ed Kolb, Riverside, California
The Stone Foundation Scholarship: Bryan Miller, Fort Worth, Texas
Marshall Temple Memorial Scholarship: Rand Mills, Henefer, Utah
David Arver Memorial Scholarship: Coryn Porter, Mount Kisco, New York
Dutch & Ginger Arver Memorial Scholarship: Jarah Gordon, Jasper, Indiana
Johnny Davis Memorial Scholarship: Phat Tran, Houston, Texas
Gene Baker Memorial Scholarship: Michal Brauhn, Ottumwa, Iowa
Jim Cook Honorary Scholarship: Madison Huntoon, Deland, Florida
Chuck Peacock Memorial Scholarship: Nikolai Travis, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Chuck Freeland Memorial Scholarship: Sean Schafer, Fruita, Colorado; Donald Ballew, Denton, Texas
Monte Mitchell Memorial Scholarship: Curtis Abrahamson, Grantville, Georgia
The AEA Educational Foundation awards scholarships to students pursuing a career in the general aviation maintenance and aircraft electronics industry. The intent of these scholarships is to identify and reward those individuals who best exemplify the qualities that lead to success in the aviation industry.
The Foundation was created in 1990 to enhance, promote and secure the future of aviation maintenance and the AEA by furthering the education of students, technicians, members of the AEA and others as determined by aviation industry needs.
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