BBB Center for Character Ethics Announces the 2015 Students of Integrity Scholarship Award Recipients
Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) September 15, 2015 -- BBB Center for Character Ethics will honor the 2015 Students of Integrity Scholarship Recipients in conjunction with the Torch Awards for Ethics luncheon.
The Students of Integrity Scholarship awards is an annual future leaders program designed to increase marketplace trust by encouraging and recognizing the ethical and character development of our future leaders and employees.
The program, founded in 2002, is open to high school juniors residing in BBB’s 21 county service area. A panel of business leaders and members of the academic community evaluate the entries. Scholarships are awarded to the students in their senior year who personify high character through leadership, community service, and overall personal integrity and academic accomplishments. The ten recipients will each receive a $1,000 scholarship toward advancement of their education. Scholarships are made possible by Columbia Gas of Ohio.
The awards are to be presented at the Torch Awards for Ethics luncheon, which honor central Ohio companies that embody the BBB’s mission of advancing marketplace trust on October 20, 2015; in Columbus.
For more information on the Students of Integrity and the BBB Torch Awards event visit bbbcenterforcharacterethics.com
The 2015 recipients are:
Akeem Adesiji, Whetstone High School
Grace Alford, Dublin Coffman High School
Megan Cremeans, Sheridan High School
Sophia Fisher, Upper Arlington HS
Richard Hwang, Athens High School
Caroline Scott, Dublin Jerome High School
Lauren Walters, Rutherford Hayes High School
Madison Weisend, Newark Catholic High School
Madison Wells, Pleasant Local High School
Samantha Young, Amanda-Clearcreek
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About BBB Center for Character Ethics
THE BBB’s Center for Character Ethics Is a business-supported, free-enterprise advancing non-profit organization focused on serving business managers & classroom educators with leadership character and organizational ethics strengthening resources. Our mission is to provide character ethics assessment, training and recognition to for-profit and non-profit leaders and to provide k-16 educator-focused character strengthening programs. As a result, we intend to help both producers and consumers flourish in central Ohio.
Joan Coughlin, Better Business Bureau, http://www.centralohio.bbb.org, +1 (614) 754-4561, [email protected]
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