The Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation Trust, the charitable arm of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®, presented scholarships to 18 graduating seniors from public high schools in Silicon Valley at the end of the 2023-2024 school year. Each student received a $1,500 scholarship. The scholarship awards are made possible by donations from SILVAR REALTORS® and affiliates.

The Charitable Foundation Scholarship Program is a partnership effort between the Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation and educators in SILVAR’s service areas. The program recognizes students for their outstanding achievements in academics, extracurricular activities, and community involvement. Scholarship recipients are selected from the high schools in the communities served by SILVAR members.

The selection committee, chaired by Scholarship Program chair Nina Yamaguchi, includes representatives from the local business community and SILVAR. This year marks the program’s 25th year. Since its start, the program has awarded $517,500 in scholarships to graduating seniors in communities served by SILVAR members.

Students who received scholarships, the schools from which they graduated, and the colleges/universities they plan to attend are William (Wei Chi) Yao, Cupertino High School (UCLA); Batoul Mortada, Fremont High School (University of Detroit Mercy); Ezra Furtado-Tiwari, Henry M. Gunn High School (UC Santa Barbara); Mahi Patel, Homestead High School (UCLA); Manasija Bhargavan, Leigh High School (UC Santa Barbara); Audrey Fan, Los Altos High School (Stanford University); Dana Hathaway, Los Gatos High School (Northwestern University); Sophie Yang, Lynbrook High School (University of Chicago); Sarah Jay Weintraut, Menlo-Atherton High School (UCLA);Amy Zheng, Monta Vista High School (Stanford University); Mikayla Kim, Mountain View High School (UCLA); Haley Oba, Palo Alto High School (Columbia University); Sophia Tian, Prospect High School (University of Pennsylvania); Natalie Tsung, Santa Clara High School (UCLA); Lynn Dai, Saratoga High School (Yale University); Zachary Jansons, Westmont High School (UC Berkeley); Vidhya Vishwanath, Wilcox High School (Carnegie Mellon University); and Kayla Tsui, Woodside High School (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo).

Members of the SILVAR presented the scholarship awards to the recipients during senior awards night at their respective schools. Presentingthe awards this year were Joanne Fraser (Compass), Katherine Frey (Katherine Frey Real Estate), Jimmy Kang (eXp Realty of California), Alex Lewicki (DeLeon Realty), Theresa Loya (Coldwell Banker), Wendy Marioni (Compass), Tracey McNeely (eXp Realty of California), Sunita Merchia (Merchia Realty), Russell Morris (Coldwell Banker), Suzanne Myers (Intero Real Estate Services), Navneet Parmar (Real Estate Experts), Tammie Peters (Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno), Denise Welsh (Compass) and Mark Wong (Compass).

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