Emily Jung reports on her summer experience at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation in Seoul, Korea. This is the first of her two programs underwritten by GFF.

Longmei Ge reports on her summer program experience in Marine Biology at Brown University.

Emily Jung begins her second GFF-sponsored summer experience at Stanford University where she will study cryptography.

Charlie Du arrives at Boston University to attend the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS).

Arkaprabha Kolay, a rising CCHS sophomore, arrives at Michigan for its summer Michigan Math and Science Scholars program.

Maya Benyas has just settled into her dorm at Stanford and will be studying Physics this summer.

Emily Jung begins her internship at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Foundation, whose purpose is to promote democracy, peace, and international understanding. This is her first of two programs underwritten by GFF.

Longmei, a rising sophomore at CCHS, has arrived at Brown to begin her summer program in Marine Biology.

The 2019 scholarship winners for the Garwin Family Foundation’s Carbondale Community High School CCHS Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in the Arts, Sciences, and Math are (left to right): Maya Benyas, Longmei Ge, Minseo “Emily” Jung, Arkaprabha Kolay, and Charlie Du.

Aisha Ruperto enhanced her cooking skills and food knowledge base, learned how to fit into the rhythm of a busy restaurant kitchen, and made lasting relationships during her time interning at Tom’s Place. As part of the mentorship-model internship in the culinary...

Eli Tsung learned more programming skills than he even imagined possible in his “Introduction to Programming” course at Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes. He was challenged with coursework that explored how to use programming tools and how they worked. In...

Charlie Du spent three weeks in intensive math courses at AwesomeMath at the University of Texas in Dallas. He grew his mathematics acumen and his independent living skills while away from home for the first time. In addition, he had the pleasure of working with...

Ian Kinsel spent his summer at Students and Teachers as Research Scientists (STARS) in St. Louis, where he focused on photovoltaic biomaterials. Not only did he conduct six weeks of hands-on engineering research, he read scientific papers, wrote a research paper on...

Maya Benyas attended STEM II at Brown University, where she focused on neuroscience—through lectures, labs, and independent research. Her coursework caused her interest in neuroscience to blossom and greatly enhanced her understanding of the core functions and...

Gabriela Benyas experienced a summer of intensive organic chemistry instruction and hands-on experiments at Michigan Math and Science Scholars (MMSS). As a sponsoree of the Garwin Family Foundation Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in the Arts,...

The Garwin Family Foundation (GFF) is thrilled to introduce a new feature on our website: “Where Are They Now?” This section of our website will share the successes of our prior GFFers as they follow their educational and career paths—and make a difference in the...

The 2018 scholarship winners for the GFF’s CCHS Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in the Arts, Sciences, and Math are: (Back Row) Ian Kinsel, Eli Tsung, Gabriela Benyas, (Front Row) Charlie Du, Maya Benyas, and Aisha Ruperto.   Six outstanding...