Comcast Awards More Than $200,000 in Scholarship Money to Maryland Area High School 2005 Graduating Seniors

Comcast Awards More Than $200,000 in Scholarship Money to Maryland Area High School 2005 Graduating Seniors

Regional Comcast Student Achievement Awards and National Comcast Foundation Scholarship Program Fuels Effort to Support Higher Education

Nearly $1 Million Invested in Scholarships Since Company Began First Program

BALTIMORE, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast today announced that it has awarded more than $200,000 in scholarship money to students in Maryland from the 2005 graduating class through the Comcast Student Achievement Awards program and the Comcast Foundation Leaders & Achievers Program.

The Student Achievement Awards program provides a $1,000 scholarship to one graduating senior from each Maryland public high school located in areas serviced by Comcast (Attached is a list of high schools and recipients). Comcast has sponsored the Student Achievement Awards program in Maryland each spring since 1992, and has awarded nearly $1 million in scholarship money across the state of Maryland since the program's inception. This year, Comcast is awarding 144 Student Achievement Awards for a total of $144,000 of support for Maryland students

"Corporate support of higher education is critical and it's been exciting to see the Student Achievement Awards program grow across Maryland since it began 13 years ago. I am proud that this year, Comcast Student Achievement Awards have been presented to one student from each of Maryland's high schools in the areas we serve. Through this effort, 144 students will receive financial help from Comcast to help pay for a higher education," said Barbara A. Gehrig, senior vice president of Comcast's Maryland-Delaware region. "The more we can do to support learning, the better our workforce will be in the future."

The Comcast Student Achievement Awards recognize outstanding students who have achieved extraordinary academic results and shown personal growth over their high school careers. Recipients of this scholarship are students who have shown the most improvement during their time in high school. A committee review board made up of teachers and counselors from each high school determines the winners.

Additionally, as part of a separate scholarship program, Comcast will award area high school seniors $1,000 through the Comcast Foundation Leaders & Achievers Program. This scholarship program recognizes high school seniors who have demonstrated a strong commitment to community service and leadership. Area high school principals submit nominations to The Scholarship Foundation and entries are judged individually with more than one student eligible to win from any school. This year, the Comcast Foundation awarded 58 scholarships totaling $58,000 throughout Maryland (A list of these recipients is also attached). In 2004, the Comcast Foundation donated more than $1 million to graduating seniors across the nation as part of this program.

"The talented young men and women who are recipients of the 2005 Comcast Student Achievement Awards and the Comcast Foundation Leaders and Achievers Scholarships are perfect examples of the thousands of individual success stories happening in our public schools every day," said Nancy S. Grasmick, State Superintendent of Schools. "Comcast understands that it is the students of today who will define the workplace of tomorrow. By helping these deserving students achieve their goals of furthering their education, and making the unprecedented commitment to every public high school in the jurisdictions Comcast serves, Comcast is once again showing itself as a true friend of Maryland education."

About Comcast

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)(NASDAQ:CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com/) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 21.5 million cable customers and 7 million high-speed Internet customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content.

The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

Comcast serves approximately 800,000 customers in Maryland and Delaware. Comcast, whose Maryland/Delaware Region offices are located in White Marsh, Maryland, employs more than 2,000 people in the Maryland/Delaware Region.

Comcast Student Achievement 2005 Award Winners

Anne Arundel County: Annapolis Senior High School, Sara J. Tongue Arundel High School, Amanda Dozier Broadneck High School, Ashley Anne Donatelli Chesapeake High School, Sara Jungerheld Glen Burnie High School, Charles Hudak Meade High School, Obinna Ajuzie North County High School, Christian L. Harris, Jr. Northeast High School, Christopher Shade Old Mill High School, Lorimar Mundo Severna Park High School, Teresa Brady South River High School, Nina Firmoni Southern High School, Brittany Stewart

Baltimore City: Baltimore City College, Cynthia Hayes Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Jessica White Baltimore School for the Arts, Katherine Thompson Carver Vocational-Technical, Tiffinney Green Central Career Academy at Briscoe, Sharde Keitt Dr. Samuel L. Banks, Raymond McNeill Dr. W.E.B. DuBois Senior High, Shayla Hunter Edmondson-Westside Senior High, Valerie Dix Forest Park High School, Raymond Davis Jr. Francis M. Woods Alternative, Terrell Edmonds Frederick Douglass High School, Octavia Washington Harbor City High School, Diana Keve Lake Clifton/Eastern High, Christina Farabee Laurence G. Paquin Middle/High, Ciara Jones Maritime Academy, J-Tiame Jones Mergenthaler Vo-Technical, Latisha Holmes Northwestern High School, Shamia Brightful Patterson High School, Donnell Rogers Paul Laurence Dunbar High, Tavon McClurkin Reginald F. Lewis High School, Priscilla Davis Southern High School, Terrell Parker Southside Academy, Ronney Tyson Southwestern High School, Maudetina Smith Walbrook Uniform Services Academy, Jason Buchanan Western High School, Darricka Morgan

Baltimore County: Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Candace Fong Catonsville High School, Donald Cox Chesapeake High School, David Chesley Dulaney High School, Kara Chaprnka Dundalk High School, Heather Hart Eastern Technical High School, Uzoma Anele Franklin High School, Talat Halim Chaudhry Hereford High School, Stanley Guild Kenwood High School, Megan Miller Lansdowne High School, Shameia Morrison Loch Raven High School, Brittany Shields Milford Mill Academy, Sharita Bates Overlea High School, Samantha Ortiz Owings Mills High School, Jherie-Lee Samuels Parkville High School, Michael Kirby Patapsco High School, Rickeena Free Perry Hall High School, Henry Huang Pikesville High School, Sierra Craig Randallstown High School, Sierra Murray Sollers Point Technical High School, Kaitlin Hunt Sparrows Point High School, Joseph Warns Towson High School, Robert Davis Western School of Technology, Naveed Rehman Woodlawn High School, Justin A. Walker

Calvert County: Calvert High School, Daniel Jaime Huntington High School, Sarah Colleen Booth Northern High School, Jessika Hollidge Patuxent High School, John Pang, Jr.

Charles County: Henry E. Lackey High School, Koreena Hawkins La Plata High School, Sierra T. Mong Maurice J. McDonough High School, Thomas Benya Thomas Stone High School, Shanita Chase Westlake High School, Krissanda T. Brown

Eastern Shore, Maryland: Colonel Richardson High, DeCraig A. Gibson James M. Bennett High School, Brett Jefferson North Dorchester High School, Michon' L. Tillery North East High School, Mary Katherine McEvoy Pocomoke High School, Kymberly Megan Kudla Snow Hill High School, LaToya Purnell Stephen Decatur High School, Bobbi Sue Sadler Washington High School, Steven Schollfield Wicomico High School, Nia Dashiell

Harford County: Aberdeen High School, Andrew Steffan Bel Air High School, Bonita Sikes C. Milton Wright High School, Steven Flaherty Fallston High School, Dana Welsch Edgewood High School, Kristen Lee Harford Technical School, Thomas C. Sturtevant Havre de Grace High School, Thomas R. Hawkins Joppatowne High School, Amber Oputa

Howard County: Atholton High, Matthew Paul Harman Centennial High, Kimberly Pavlovsky Glenelg High, Elise Rub Hammond High, Ellen Blasi The Homewood School, Allison Stanley Howard High, Raisa Ilena Sherman Long Reach High, Jordan Holmes Mt. Hebron High, Nicole Collins Oakland Mills High, Sandrine Wiggan Reservoir High, Allyson Elizabeth Harshaw River Hill High, Heather Moore Wilde Lake High, Debbie Jefferson

Montgomery County: Albert Einstein High, Muhammed Masum Ornek Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, Majida Muhammad Col. Zadok Magruder High School, Amy Vallario Damascus High School, Akbar Sherzai Gaithersburg High School, Adan Torres-Rivas James Hubert Blake High, Stewart Cornelius John F. Kennedy High School, James Gedling Montgomery Blair High School, George Thompson Northwest High School, Nadine McFarlane Paint Branch High School, Noah Wallace Poolesville High School, Eva Robinson Quince Orchard High School, Kelly Bonds Jr. Richard Montgomery High School, Brian Bonilla Rockville High School, Michael Williams Seneca Valley High School, Edward Cofie Sherwood High School, Yeo Seul Koo Springbrook High School, Huong Xuan Ho Thomas Wootton High School, James Earle Walt Whitman High School, Adam Ratner Walter Johnson High School, Jessica Robins Watkins Mill High School, Kevin Green Wheaton High School, Edward Canterbury Winston Churchill High School, Sekou Yansane

Prince George's County: Bladensburg High School, O'Neil Batchelor Bowie High School, Daniel Fryberger Croom Vocational High School, Sara Pearce Crossland High School, Brittany Williams C. H. Flowers High School, Jerome Owens DuVal High School, Kenyada Bethea Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Michah Benons Fairmont Heights High School, Nichelle Teter Forestville High School, Jasmine Walker Frederick Douglass High School, Shanna Powell Friendly High School, Royonna Smith Gwynn Park High School, James Parker III High Point High School, Linda Castro Largo High School, Dontelia Corbin Laurel High School, Amber Gillette Northwestern High School, Sue Ann Lyons Oxon Hill High School, LaTanvia Ellis Parkdale High School, Lynette Wray Potomac High School, Aena Al-Amin-El Suitland High School, Carlos Ellerbee-Jones Surrattsville High School, Devin Bobbit Tall Oaks Vocational High School, Christine Kulp

Comcast 2005 Leaders & Achievers

Anne Arundel County Annapolis Senior High, Jazmine Turner Glen Burnie Senior High, Fagan Harris North County Senior High, Casey Bryant South River High School, Kristin Beach

Baltimore City Balt. School for the Arts, Tiffany Boone Bryn Mawr School, Elizabeth Cole Mercy High School, Adelicia Villagaray Paul L. Dunbar High, Tavon McClurkin Southwestern High, Korede Oladapo Western High School, Heather Trageser Yeshivat Rambam, Gabrielle Kadin

Baltimore County Bais Yaakov Girls School, Ruth Tendler Baltimore Lutheran High, Hasina Griffiths Carver Center for Arts & Tech, Michelle Bilenky Dulaney High School, Diana Bae Eastern Tech High, Emily Simons Franklin High School, Sunny Marvania Kenwood High, Kimberly Kulczycki Owings Mills High School, Jason Fine Parkville High School, Liny John Pikesville High School, Justin Thaler Sparrows Point High, Sarah Blusiewicz Western School of Tech, Soraya Abuelhiga

Charles County La Plata High School, Kara Tipper Maurice McDonough High School, Mary Thiedeman Westlake High School, Brittney Thomas

Eastern Shore, Maryland Bohemia Manor High, Lauren Watson North Caroline High, Kristin Diem North Dorchester High, Chelsea English Parkside High School, Daniel Kenny Pocomoke High School, Jama Mancano Salisbury School, Aya McKeen Stephen Decatur High School, John Wist Worcester Country School, Morgan Otway

Harford County Bel Air High School, Megan Prupora Edgewood High School, Kayla Brown

Howard County Centennial High School, Seth Manoff Glenelg County School, Sarah Poling Howard High, Shamika Fleuranges Long Reach High, Jonathan McCoy River Hill High School, Grishma Patel Wilde Lake High School, Samantha Bier

Montgomery County Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, Brittany Brewer Col. Zadok Magruder High, Andrew Parnell Gaithersburg High School, Neha Singhal James Hubert Blake High, Autumn Arnett John F. Kennedy High, Rahel Yohannes Our Lady of Good Counsel, Mallory Crane Paint Branch Senior High, Nicole Slatkin Springbrook High, Lauren Kensky Thomas S. Wootton High, Tanya Lofton The Heights School, Morgan Maher

Prince George's County Bishop McNamara High, James Brown Bowie High School, Katherine Reiter Fredrick Douglass High, Atiya Abdullah Largo High School, Javicia Walker Oxon Hill High School, Amber Peterson Suitland High School, Lola Okanlawon

Source: Comcast

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