{"id":156203,"date":"2022-07-22T03:42:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=156203"},"modified":"2022-07-22T03:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:42:26","slug":"vwhs-students-earn-scholarship-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/22\/vwhs-students-earn-scholarship-money\/","title":{"rendered":"VWHS students earn scholarship money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six recent Van Wert High School graduates earned college scholarships during an online \u201cBelieve in Ohio\u201d statewide competition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-man team of Joshua Reichert and Robert Spath each won a STEM Commercialization Plan $5,000 scholarship for their plan title of binder ring correction. Ian Rex and Natalie Benner each won an identical scholarship for their plan title, improved shopping wheel caster. Hunter Sherer and Keigen Martz each won a $10,000 scholarship for their plan, new spike design for cross country shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funded by the State of Ohio through the Department of Higher Education and operated as a program of The Ohio Academy of Science, Believe in Ohio is a STEM and entrepreneurship program that teaches students how to commercialize products and services and create business plans that are driven by innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-Believe-in-Ohio-winners-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156204\"\/><figcaption>These six Van Wert High School students were awarded scholarships after a statewide Believe in Ohio competition. <em>Photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 37 STEM Commercialization and STEM Business Plans were awarded with $277,500 in scholarships at the Believe in Ohio State Competition. These scholarships can only be used to attend an Ohio college, university, or technical college. In 2022, the Believe in Ohio program awarded $468,500 scholarships in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s projects were not only amazing, but also very inspiring\u201d, said Michael E. Woytek, Executive Director for The Ohio Academy of Science. \u201cThe Believe in Ohio program provides students with a vision of what\u2019s possible as it broadens and builds critical skills needed to compete in today\u2019s economy. It also provides them with a sense of purpose for pursuing post-secondary opportunities, here in Ohio\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Believe in Ohio is a free, comprehensive, curriculum-based, STEM and entrepreneurship program for Ohio high school students. The program is designed to create a \u201cCulture of Innovation\u201d and to prepare students to meet the demands of a rapidly changing labor market and become contributors to Ohio\u2019s innovation economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about Believe in Ohio, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/believeinohio.org\">www.believeinohio.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Six recent Van Wert High School graduates earned college scholarships during an online \u201cBelieve in Ohio\u201d statewide competition The two-man team of Joshua Reichert and Robert Spath each won a STEM Commercialization Plan $5,000 scholarship for their plan title of binder ring correction. Ian Rex and Natalie Benner each won an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 11:04:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156205,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203\/revisions\/156205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}