Forty-one seniors at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School qualified to receive a 2015 John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the state’s largest merit-based scholarship program. The scholarship provides free tuition for up to eight semesters of undergraduate education at a state college or university.
Scholarship winners are: Kezia Alvares, Dunovan Belisle, Eleah Casea, Cailin Drew-Morin, Erik Faber, Lee Faraca, Dakota Fogg, Henry Gallagher, Yannick Gonsalves, Chad Guyther, Eli Hanschka, Erin Hickey, Josie Iadicicco, Olivia Jardin, Paul Jeffers-Mayhew, Emily Kleinhenz, Noah Kleinhenz, Kevin Montambault, Gordon Moore, Madeleine Moore, Kelsey Moreis, Olivia Ogden, Steven Perzanowski, Charlotte Potter, Samantha Potter, Ellen Reagan, Katherine Reid, Sabrina Reppert, Michaela Rivard, Timothy Roberts, Andrew Ruimerman, Grant Santos, Konrad Sashin, Karl Rasmus Sayre, Russell Shapiro, Liam Smith, Ashlyn Tattersall, Susanna Van Rooyen, Galya Walt, August Welles, and Willow Wunsch.
To be eligible students must have scores of advanced and proficient on grade 10 MCAS tests in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics (at least one score must be advanced), and have combined scores on MCAS ELA and mathematics tests that place them in the top 25 percent of students in the graduating class in their district.