Local Students Receive UGA Charter Scholarships

Several Lilburn-area students have been awarded the Charter Scholarship by the University of Georgia. All are incoming freshmen at UGA.

The award provides $1,000 in addition to the HOPE Scholarship to incoming freshmen with “stellar academic records, leadership and community involvement, and a respect for and commitment to intellectual, social and cultural diversity,” according to a press release.

The scholarship is named in honor of the university’s distinction as the nation’s first state-chartered public university.

Local recipients (with parents in parentheses):

Grant Capps, Lilburn, Brookwood High School (Mr. and Mrs. Greg Capps).

Richard Cowan, Lilburn, Brookwood (Ms. Shelley Threefoot Cowan).

Aaron Elwood, Lilburn, Brookwood (Mr. and Mrs. John and Julie Elwood).

Chante Roebuck, Lilburn, Berkmar (Mr. and Mrs. Bernard and Melanie Roebuck).

Eli Watkins, Lilburn, Parkview (Ms. Sharon Kricun).