Burnsville High School seniors were awarded scholarships totaling more than $110,000 at this year’s Community Scholarship Awards Ceremony May 24 at the school’s Mraz Center.

The event, sponsored by Foundation 191, provides graduating seniors with the opportunity to receive a college scholarship through the Community Scholarship Program.  Many area businesses, organizations, clubs and foundations fund these scholarships. Thank you donors and congratulations students!

Scholarship donors and recipients include:

• American Legion Burnsville 1700, Olivia Brammer and Samantha Panos;
• Apple Auto Scholarship presented by the Minneapolis Foundation, Kelly Solberg;
• BA191 Ken Slipka Baseball Scholarship, Garrett Gregersen;
• Burnsville Association of Educational Assistants, Payton Handrahan;
• BHS Student Council, Luke Haddorff and Malorie O’Brien;
• Burnsville Athletic Club, Elizabeth Cummings, Mackenzie Duncan and Jack Kudra;
• Burnsville Breakfast Rotary, Jacob Boatman, Kaitlyn Lakson and Chelsea Zerr;
• Burnsville High School Tennis, Macauly Donohue, Allie Draper, Alex Gude, Kendra Gudmonson, Luke Haddorff, Payton Handrahan, Albert Liu and Sutton Strander;
• Burnsville Lion’s Club, Samantha Brenes, Katherine Do, Michelle Dolan, Natasha Hassan, Vanessa Kiriago, Maxwell May, Davina Persaud, Sarra Suphavong, Falak Tawaklna and Julio Urgiles-Inamagua;
• Burnsville Noon Rotary, Kaitlyn Lakson;
• Burnsville Principals Association, Resendez Ayla;
• Class Acts, Daniel Akah, Olivia Bendickson, Samantha Brenes, Kristine Brinkman, Princess Daniels, Vitoria Gueorguiev, Katlin Johnson, Shealyn McMahon and BEST, Yevgeniy Bak and Spencer Harned;
• Dakota Electric Association, Eyerusalem Abebaw, Lysandra Alvilar, Cameron Bedford, Jake Beeson, Jacob Boatman, Jeffy Jeffy, Dalatheon Legrand, Julia Machuchu, Christian Marineau and Murwoa Yusuf;
• Devin Delaney Memorial Scholarship, Garrett Gregersen, Conner Mauck and Jonah Norling;
• District 191 Employees, Jose Cazares, Elizabeth McCormick, Emily Reynolds, Ryan VanEps and Murwoa Yusuf;
• Firefly Credit Union Firefly Credit Union Blood Drive, Jake Chudecke, Kaylee Martynow and Elizabeth McCormick;
• Firefly Credit Union Great Savings Challenge, Elizabeth McCormick; Hanson Scholarship, William Alvey, Olivia Brammer, Christopher Fuentes Chevez, Mitchell Huerd, Brock Schultz and Elija Worley;
• Harriet Bishop PTO, Ali Mohamed;
• Howard Hall Memorial Scholarship, Abeal Sinbero;
• Ken Slipka Leadership Scholarship, Makaela Kallstrom;
• Kopp Family Foundation, Madison Burk, Antonio Alvarez Cruz and Tiffany Preisinger;
• Lifetouch Presidential Scholarships – Eagle Ridge, Janessa Cook – Metcalf, Megan Osterhaus – Nicollet, Alessandra Genis;
• Lon Hitch Community Involvement Memorial Scholarship, Falak Tawakalna;
• Lon Hitch Education Memorial Scholarship, Vanessa Kiriago;
• Mary Lenhardt Memorial Scholarship, Kaylee Martynow and Shealyn McMahon;
• Metcalf PTO, Elizabeth McCormick;
• National Honor Society General Scholarship, Sydney Dahl, Thanh Manh Dinh, Albert Liu, Megan Osterhaus, Cristian Pina-Flores, Derek Pina-Flores and Thomas Ryan;
• NHS Officer Scholarship, Courtney Funk, Elizabeth McCormick and Emily Reynolds;
• P.E.O. Chapters DP/EI Women’s Scholarship, Hannah Schliemann;
• P.E.O. S.T.A. R. Scholarship, Elizabeth McCormick;
• Renae Gustafson Memorial Scholarship, Fiona Chow and Albert Liu;
• Robert Naffziger Memorial Scholarship, Abeal Sinbero;
• Savage American Legion, Kristyn Loyva;
• Savage Rotary, Sereirotha Phay;
• Taylor Ziebol Memorial Scholarship, Sameesha Harmon;
• Timothy L. Correll (TLC) Foundation,  Samantha Duncan;
• Walser Foundation Driving a Stronger Community, Olivia Brammer