Comcast Awards $54,000 in Scholarships to Connecticut High School Seniors

Comcast Awards $54,000 in Scholarships to Connecticut High School Seniors

Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program Recognizes Connecticut Students for their Academic Achievement and Community Service

HARTFORD, Conn., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, is awarding 45 Connecticut high school seniors scholarships through its annualLeaders and Achievers®Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation's signature community investment programs, recognizes students' leadership skills, academic achievement and commitment to community service.

Comcast, joined by State Senators Gary LeBeau and Robert Kane, State Representatives Brian Becker, Christie Carpino, James Crawford, Matthew Lesser, Robert Sampson, John Thompson and other government officials, recognized the students at a special event held today at the Connecticut State Capitol. Forty-four of the 2012 Connecticut Leaders and Achievers recipients received $1,000 scholarships and one lucky student was awarded a $10,000 Comcast Founders Scholarship - instituted in honor of Ralph J. Roberts, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Comcast Corporation - for a total of $54,000 awarded in Connecticut this year.

"I would like to congratulate all of the scholarship winners and thank the Comcast Foundation for recognizing the achievements of some of our state's brightest young minds," said Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor. "I encourage our winners to continue to engage both academics and civic involvement with the enthusiasm they have demonstrated to this point in their academic career."

"Comcast has a vested interest in providing our youth with opportunities to excel and succeed in a highly competitive higher education landscape and job market," said Mary McLaughlin, Senior Vice President for Comcast's Western New England Region, which includes Connecticut. "We commend these students for their outstanding achievements, and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors."

The Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program provides one-time $1,000 scholarships to students who strive to achieve their potential, who are catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are involved in their schools, and who serve as models for their fellow students. The philosophy behind the program is to give young people every opportunity to be prepared for the future, to engage youth in their communities, and to demonstrate the importance of civic involvement, and the value placed on civic involvement by the business community.

Since the program's inception there have been over 17,000 scholarship winners totaling more than $17.2 million. A list of the scholarship recipients in Connecticut is detailed below.

About the Comcast Foundation

The Comcast Foundation was founded by Comcast Corporation in June 1999 to provide charitable support to qualified non-profit organizations. The Foundation primarily invests in programs intended to have a positive, sustainable impact on their communities. The Foundation has three community investment priorities -- promoting community service, expanding digital literacy, and building tomorrow's leaders. Since its inception, the Comcast Foundation has donated over $108 million to organizations in the communities nationwide that Comcast serves. More information about the Foundation and its programs is available at www.comcast.com/community.

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Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) (www.comcast.com) is one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services. Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers. Comcast is the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a major motion picture company and theme parks.

2012 Connecticut Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Recipients

First Name Last Name Hometown High School
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Pooja Agrawal West Hartford Hall High School
Tessa Bloomquist Branford Hopkins School
Rebecca Borovsky Burlington Lewis S. Mills High School
Fabio Caetano Waterbury Waterbury Arts Magnet School
Alex Cannata Higganum Haddam-Killingworth High School
Lily Cannon West Hartford Conard High School
Sarah Chapell Westbrook Westbrook High School
Jillian DiTota Wallingford Mark T. Sheehan High School
Elias Gharios Pawcatuck Stonington High School
Jasmin Gonzalez New Haven High School In The Community
Damon Gray Portland Portland High School
Daniel Haugh Farmington Farmington High School
Erin Hillis Derby Sacred Heart Academy
Elizabeth Iorio North Stonington Wheeler High School
Macaire Jones Danbury Danbury High School
Cieara Juliano East Hampton East Hampton High School
Cody Laplante New Britain New Britain High School
Zachary LaVigne Durham Coginchaug Regional High School
Juan Lluberes Guilford Guilford High School
Jenna Luck Bolton Bolton High School
Kenrick Mattison Bloomfield Bloomfield High School
Elizabeth May Windsor Windsor High School
Aurelien McHenold Hartford Classical Magnet School
Brian Michalka Bethel Bethel High School
Christian Murphy West Hartford Northwest Catholic High
Hiachira Nieves Manchester A. I. Prince V-T School
Patrick O'Dell Beacon Falls Woodland Regional High School
Catherine Oidtman Old Lyme Mercy High
Stephanie Orts Seymour Seymour High School
Tullio Ossa Hamden Notre Dame High School
Kyle Packnick Shelton Shelton High School
Marcus Pugliese Bolton Kingswood Oxford School
Alex Pugnali Bloomfield Metropolitan Learning Center
April Regan Wallingford Lyman Hall High School
Elliot Rogers Simsbury Simsbury High School
Samantha Rosenbaum Derby New Haven Academy
Kyla Sead West Haven Hill Regional Career High School
Micala Smith Baltic Academy of the Holy Family
Dylan Stempel Ivoryton Valley Regional High School
Carolann Terry Norwich Norwich Technical High School
Dashauna Tyson New Haven Riverside Educational Academy
Erin Ward Wolcott Wolcott High School
Alexander Weiner Ellington Ellington High School
Victor Wu Durham Xavier High
Gowtham Yenduri East Lyme East Lyme High School
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