Each year the Placentia Rotary Club awards thousands of dollars in college scholarship to deserving students who attend Buena Vista, El Dorado, El Camino Real, Parkview, or Valencia high schools. The members take great pride in providing scholarships for these young students who go on to further their education and become our leaders and professionals of tomorrow.

 

The Placentia Rotary Foundation Awards $17,500 in Local College Scholarships in 2019

The Placentia Rotary Foundation awarded $21,000 in scholarships to students at El Camino, El Dorado, and Valencia this spring. These awards are given each year by the club to assist local students further their educations and to help them give back to the community. Since 2001, the foundation has awarded over $277,000 total to local students. This year's winners from El Dorado are Lucia Cavalluzzi, Leah Mercado, Zachary Rogers, and Sophia Tovar. From Valencia they are Rebecca Castro, Sharon Chang, Kendy Calixto Fernandez, Geraldine Gomez, Eric Lim, Ivy Nguyen, Diya Shah, Arushi Somani, Kaylynn Yune, and Vivek Shah. This years recipients from El Camino are Jada Aguilar, Leslie Cruz, Jonathan Misa, and Shandy Rodas.

Scholarship money comes from the Club's annual Cowabunga.