Each year the East San Gabriel Valley Regional Occupational Program & Technical Center celebrates its students through the issuing of scholarships and awards. This year the ROP awarded over $15,000 in scholarships to students who made the decision to continue their education at a post secondary institution.

Some of the scholarships that were awarded this year include:

Miller Brewing Company “Links for Success” Scholarships
Juan Canadas
Jose Cen
Veronica Hernandez
Sandra Meza
Richard Parra
Daniel Tobiassen

Bridgestone/Firestone Scholarship
Daniel Tobiassen

K.B. Toys Scholarship
Cynthia Rochin

Longs Drugs Scholarship
Christiana Russel

Travis l. Manning Scholarship
Ruben Nuno

Laura Johnson Scholarship
Angela Victoria

In addition the following students received special recognition as Outstanding Students at this years “Olympic Chapter” awards ceremony. Students are selected from 7 broad categories of occupations. The students were nominated by their instructor and selected by a panel of judges. This year over 100 students were nominated. The top seven were:

The awards were given to the students at our annual Business Partners Breakfast held June 4th at Blake’s Restaurant in West Covina. Also recognized that morning were representatives from our business affiliates. This year over 220 businesses were utilized as part of our efforts to provide the finest educational experience possible. That morning over 50 of them were present to accept their thank-yous from our Joint Board of Management and district guests.