P.E.O. STAR Scholarships awarded to St. Charles North grads

Two P.E.O. STAR Scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic year were presented to Laura Fang and Grace Keane, both seniors at St. Charles North High School.

The scholarships were presented at Senior Honors Night at North High School. Laura was recommended for this scholarship by Chapter MW of St. Charles. Grace was recommended by Chapter NN of St. Charles.

Laura will be attending Princeton University in the fall to study operations research and financial engineering, which essentially consists of applying data science and computer science to a variety of fields, including those of business, science, economics and finance.

Grace will attend St. Louis University, where she plans to study biology with a premed track beginning this fall. She plans to be a pediatric oncologist.

The P.E.O. STAR Scholarship is a $2,500 scholarship based on excellence in leadership, extracurricular activities, community service, academics and potential for future success.

The program is open to young women who are citizens or legal, permanent residents of the United States or Canada and who are graduating high school seniors at the time of application. A student must be recommended by a P.E.O chapter.

The P.E.O. Sisterhood, founded Jan. 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is an international philanthropic and educational organization which promotes increased educational opportunities for women.

There are nearly 6,000 local chapters in the United States and Canada, with almost 250,000 initiated members. The P.E.O. Sisterhood has provided more than $321 million in financial assistance to more than 105,000 recipients.

The P.E.O. Sisterhood also owns Cottey College, a fully accredited, private liberal arts and sciences college for women, with two-year and selected four-year programs, in Nevada, Missouri.