Four Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts students were selected as winners in the 2024/2025 Thea Foundation Scholarship Competition.
Seniors Olivia Busby of Heber Springs, Hannah Dalencourt-King of Poplar Grove, AB Maness of Benton and Jaime Hernandez Perez of Decatur were awarded $3,000 scholarships for their entries in the competition.
More than 300 students from across Arkansas entered the competition for a chance at part of $219,000 in scholarships, according to the foundation’s website. Thirty-six students in five different categories were awarded scholarships. ASMSA’s students were recognized in the Visual Arts category with Dalencourt-King placing seventh, Busby placing eighth, Maness taking ninth-place and Hernandez Perez placing 10th. The students’ artwork as well as a full list of scholarship winners may be found on its website.
Other categories in which awards were announced included Performing Arts, Creative Writing, Film and Fashion. The annual competitions are for Arkansas graduating high school seniors. The organization’s first scholarship was awarded in 2002. The program is now endowed and has awarded more than $2.8 million in scholarships to Arkansas students, according to its website.