ATTENTION: 2025 graduating seniors

We're offering new $5,000 Community scholarships at each high school.

Oct 22, 2024

* Forecasting 110 Scholarships in 2025, including 41 renewals. Application deadline March 7, 2025.

Our 59 sponsors project 110 scholarships and more than $500,000 in total awards in our 41st year of operation. That would mean next year 2,544 Northshore graduates will have received $5.7 million in tuition grants raised from the community since 1984.

Foundation president Melissa Aries writes: “As we celebrate a remarkable milestone—our 40th anniversary—we want to take a moment to reflect on the 2,455 students who have already benefited from your support and the support of the entire Northshore community. Over the past four decades, thanks to generous donors like you, the Scholarship Foundation of Northshore has been able to provide life-changing scholarships to Northshore students, opening doors to opportunities that otherwise might have been out of reach.”

* Scholarship Days of Giving - Today to Dec. 3

Melissa continues: “To honor this special milestone, we are thrilled to announce a unique opportunity to double the impact of your giving. A longtime friend of the foundation has generously pledged a $100,000 matching donation challenge. This means that every dollar you donate from now through December 3 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $100,000—doubling the power of your contribution!”

The goal is to get donations from all areas of the community to provide at least one $5,000 Community College Scholarship at each Northshore high school — Bothell, Inglemoor, Innovation Lab, North Creek, Secondary Academy for Success (SAS), and Woodinville. New scholarships added for 2025.

Every day is our Scholarship Day of Giving. And, now Strive for 5 will mean a $5,000 Northshore Community College Scholarship at each high school in Northshore.

Look to future Newsletters in weeks ahead to provide full specifics how to donate and how to apply at your school’s web page.

* Scholarship Days of Giving start today … through Dec. 3

* Two new scholarships

Sponsored by their families, two new memorial scholarships will be awarded in 2025 - Carl James Dunlap ‘16 Memorial Scholarship and the Steve Segadelli Student-Athlete Memorial Scholarship. Both are for $5,000.

Carl James Dunlap was born on August 22, 1998, and grew up in Woodinville, WA. He attended Wellington Elementary, Leota Junior High (where he was student body president), and Woodinville High School (where he played in the Drumline). He was a University of Washington DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology) Scholar and intern.

On September 3, 2019, before the start of his senior year at UW and less than two weeks after celebrating his 21st birthday in Las Vegas, Carl passed away suddenly from complications of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Carl was posthumously awarded his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Marketing) by the University of Washington Foster School of Business (Class of 2020).

The scholarship will be awarded to a student with disabilities who would be unable to have a full college experience due to added costs related to their disability.

Coach Steve Segadelli‘s scholarship is designed to assist a multi-sport Student-Athlete with college financial aid; and to support multi-sporting in high school. It is open to all Northshore graduates who have participated in at least two (2) high school sports.

Coach Selg impacted many people in the classroom, on the basketball court, and in life. He lost his battle with cancer in January of 2023. He was a dedicated educator, spending over 40 years in the classroom teaching physical education and health, and coaching basketball at Blanchet and Woodinville high schools. He was a graduate of Seattle University where he played basketabbl and earned his masters of education.

* Emily is Northshore Scholar 2,455

Inglemoor graduate Emily Mo was tapped as our 2,455th scholarship recipient during our annual scholarship awards breakfast in May. She received one of six Rodgers Family scholarships of $10,000 - each renewable for three years. In 2025, our 41st year, we will have awarded more than 2,500 grants since 1984.

Emily plans to enroll in the University of California Berkeley’s Management, Entrepreneurial and Technology program (M.E.T.). Her studies will likely also cover electrical engineering, computer science and business administration.

* Briefly Noted: Changes and additions

A number of donors have increased the value of their scholarships in 2025 - including four Ackerman Music to $4,000, Bothell Kenmore Chamber to $5,000, Bothell Arts to $5,000, two Mash-Eggers to $5,000, three Northshore Rotary to $5,000, Peg Phillips Theater Arts to $3,500, four Worthington Memorial to $4,000.
The Rodgers family is asking applicants to answer a new special essay question as part of their 2025 application - "Excluding the 1st and 2nd Amendments to the US Constitution, which of the Bill of Rights do you feel is most important? Why?".
Our 2,455 scholarship winners have attended nearly 300 colleges and Certificate schools across the U.S. Added this year was Tulane University which attracted Woodinville graduate Chase Rudin.
Application deadline for 2025 applicants is March 7, 2025 for academic year 2025-26 scholarships.
Application deadline for 41 renewal-eligible students is March 31, 2025. Renewal application forms will be sent in January to each recipient to be returned to the Foundation no later than March 31. Approval will be provided May 1, 2025.
Woodinville Rotary has added Rotarian Gary Whitsell to be recognized along with four other club past presidents on the club’s Presidents Memorial Scholarship.
The 10th Parker Moore Memorial Golf Tournament held this past June will be the last fund-raising tournament in support of the annual Parker Moore Scholarship. In 2024 a total of 15 Parker Moore grants (13 renewals) were awarded for a total of $44,750.