{"id":193396,"date":"2025-05-29T21:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193396"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:06:55","slug":"foster-earns-presidental-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/29\/foster-earns-presidental-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster earns Presidental Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Keaton-Foster-5-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193397\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Recent Van Wert High\u00a0School graduate Keaton Foster has been awarded the highly competitive Presidential Scholarship\u00a0from the University of Toledo, an elite merit-based scholarship given to only four students from the university\u2019s entire incoming freshman class. The Presidential Scholarship recognizes outstanding academic achievement, leadership qualities, and future potential. As part of the rigorous selection process, Foster participated in an extensive interview with the University of Toledo faculty and administrators, where he was evaluated not only on academic performance\u00a0but also on character, communication skills, and long-term goals. Beginning this fall, Foster will major in finance\u00a0with a minor in political science. He plans to pursue a career in law, using his undergraduate studies as a foundation for law school. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Van Wert High\u00a0School graduate Keaton Foster has been awarded the highly competitive Presidential Scholarship\u00a0from the University of Toledo, an elite merit-based scholarship given to only four students from the university\u2019s entire incoming freshman class. The Presidential Scholarship recognizes outstanding academic achievement, leadership qualities, and future potential. As part of the rigorous selection process, Foster [&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-193396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 14:41:04","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\/193396","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=193396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193398,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193396\/revisions\/193398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}