Six GCPS students selected for Halle Foundation Scholarships

     A Brookwood High School student, four Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) students, and a North Gwinnett High School student are headed to Germany in the Summer of 2025 as Halle Foundation Scholarship recipients. This fully paid, summer-long German immersion program offers students an opportunity to make intercultural connections and completely engage in the German language and culture while living with a host family in Germany. This scholarship is awarded to only ten students per year statewide.
 

Brookwood High School Award Recipient:

• Katherine Briggman (11th grade)

GSMST Award Recipients:

• Oyinkansola Adekonye (12th grade)
• Surbhi Dudeja (11th grade)
• Rachael Owolabi (12th grade)
• Jasmine Shayo (11th grade)

 

North Gwinnett High School Award Recipient:

• Walt Trotman (10th grade)

      The Halle Foundation is an independent, public grant-making charity established in 1986 by Claus M. Halle, a German native who lived in the U.S. for about half his adult life. The foundation seeks to promote understanding, knowledge, and friendship between the people of Germany, as seen in its European context, and those of the United States. To this end, the Foundation supports initiatives in culture, science, technology, commerce, language, scholarship, and international relations. Claus Halle “observed and concluded that greater knowledge and better understanding will lead to increased friendship between the two peoples and improved relations between the two nations, thereby helping the cause of world peace.” Determined to work at increasing such knowledge and understanding, Claus Halle established The Halle Foundation.