Winners.
Scholarship Winners
2025
Maks Annaev
University of South Florida
Kendall Clemons
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jayden Cox
University of Mississippi
Francisco De Jesus
University of Florida
Nathan Lin
Johns Hopkins University
Brianna Obot
Johns Hopkins University
Aniajah Prioleau
Florida State University
Regina Serrano
University of Texas at Austin
Kimbrie Lauren Smith
Oklahoma Baptist University
Kunyu Yang
University of Kentucky
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2024
Julia Abrego
Florida State University
Vanessa Nicole Cruz
Georgia Southern University
Aki Densmore
Florida Institute of Technology
Angela Lin
Harvard University
Serena Lin
University of Michigan
Jennifer Nguyen
Boston University
Blessyn Nkrumah
Stanford University
Ramya Sahu
Johns Hopkins University
Caz Schwarz
University of South Carolina
Jack Vaughn
University of Utah
2023
Abdulrahman Sadiq
University of Southern California
Andrea Hernández Piña
University of Arizona
Elijah Rosen
Carnegie Mellon University
Grayson Hodson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Liam Chelkowski
Cornell University
Linda Benavides
Clemson University
Maria Bustinza
University of South Florida
Raewyn Shaw
University of South Florida
Raphael Mukondiwa
Duke University
Sofia Goehler
Florida State University
Yujia Ji
Ohio State University - Columbus Campus
2022
Abigail Koester
University of Florida
Carson Wolber
Cornell University
Emma Suchsland
Truman State University
Ethan Campbell
Georgetown University
Katrina Machetta
Columbia University
Louis Lee
Northwestern University
Marian Jeffrey
University of Nevada
Maryela Cardenas
University of Notre Dame
Said Gomez
Georgia Institute of Technology
Zoe Smyth
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
2021
Amelia Hixon
Indian River State College
Anya Petreski
Indiana University - Bloomington
Christian Keller
University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Silverman-Barnes
University of Central Arkansas
Emily Orozco
University of California - Los Angeles
Hui Qian "Jenny" Chen
University of Georgia
Jamie Gunera Amador
University of Central Florida
Jiazhen Li "Vincent" Ruan
University of Southern California
Justin Baumann
Stevens Institute of Technology
Nathan Kap
Purdue University
Zaharias Avgoullas
Adelphi University
2020
Aisha Chebbi
Princeton University
Ansley Elkins
The College of Charleston
Anyi Li
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel Simone
Princeton University
Dat "David" Ho
Texas A & M University
David De Souza
Pomona College
Erick Rocher
Johns Hopkins University
Nada Maher
Florida Atlantic University
Regina Garcia
University of California - Davis
Sade McIntosh
Carnegie Mellon University
2019
Chhun Hong
University of Texas at Austin
Gabriela Varela Guadiana
Texas A & M University
Jennifer Vasquez Gonzalez
University of Florida
Johanna Powell
University of Miami
Marco Polimeni
Stevens Institute of Technology
Mary Huang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maya Patterson
University of Pittsburgh
Megan Goulet
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Micah McGrath
Rutgers University
Tito Ruiz
University of Florida
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The importance of providing assistance for talented students such as these cannot be understated. These talented winners were chosen after blinded review of hundreds of candidates, many of whom still require financial assistance to attend college.
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Please consider donating to the Balkhi Foundation to fund even more of these extremely talented students in 2026.
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