SOY scholarship given to 14 seniors

Fourteen seniors in the Save Our Youth Scholarship program have

received financial awards ranging from $500 to $3,100.

Seven of them will be going on to four-year universities.

The scholarship program began in Costa Mesa in 1993 as an incentive

for students from low-income families, providing an opportunity to

achieve higher academic success.

There are approximately 150 students in the program, which is a

collaborative effort with the Shalimar Teen Center.

The fourteen recipients are: Maritza Barajas, James Cardenas, Maria

Cardona, Maria Casas, Jembier Davalos, Arlene Filio-Bravo, Jose Flores,

Elicet Gonzalez, Carlos Leon, Ivan Marques, Araceli Morales, Marcela

Olmedo, Maria Sanchez and Julia Torres.

Newport Harbor students win Campbell award

Two Newport Harbor High School students received Brian Scott Campbell

Humanitarian Scholarships.

The awards are in honor of Brian Scott Campbell, a Corona del Mar High

School senior who died of a cerebral hemorrhage after falling and hitting

his head in January 2001.

The scholarship was created a few months after Campbell’s death to

honor a student who displayed altruistic tendencies. This year, the

scholarship’s board of directors decided to expand the search to include

both Corona del Mar and Newport Harbor High Schools.

Warren Shaeffer, who will be attending Harvard University in the fall,

received the $10,000 scholarship. Shaeffer was involved in student

government, the Volunteer Intern Program and community service projects.

While originally intending to give out just this one scholarship, the

board was so impressed with another Newport Harbor High student that it

decided to crate a Special Recognition Award worth $4,000 for her. This

award went to Anat Herzog.

Business development awards granted at UCI

Two teams have won business development awards to launch their

proposals from ThinkTank and UC Irvine’s Graduate School of Management.

Joint Solutions received $50,000 and Orbidyne, a Laguna Niguel

company, received $10,000 in June.

This was the first year the competition has been open to the entire UC

Irvine campus.

First prize went to Joint Solutions, a plan developed by a four-person

team headed by a 2002 UCI School of Medicine graduate. The plan calls for

developing a medical device to decrease the rejection and complication

rates of replacement joints. Team leader Tak Cheung said he will mainly

use the award to conduct formal market analyses and research. He is

seeking additional venture capital to help launch the company.

Second prize went to a team composed of one current student and four

alumni, including the CEO of Orbidyne. The company is developing a

Web-based system that helps manage outsourcing relationships in the

high-tech electronics manufacturing industry.