Scholarship

Scholarship

AAPI (Arkansas) is proud to announce the following High School scholarships

Five need-based scholarships of $1500 each

Five purely merit-based scholarships of $500 each

One special award of $2,500.

These scholarships will be granted to graduating (current 11th Grade, graduating from high school in May) high school senior students recognizing their service to the local and/or global community. We require minimum GPA requirements for each category.

The students from following School districts are considered for scholarships

Little Rock School District
Pulaski County Special School District
North Little Rock School District
Lisa Academy

Our Scholarship Award Subcommittee chaired by Dr. Supriya Jambhekar will choose candidates from the nominations that you send. The special award will be chosen from the total pool of applicants.

Deadline to receive the application is May 31st

Winning candidates will be announced by August 1st

Award will be presented at our annual meeting in Fall

Application Forms

Scholarship Merit

Scholarship Need Based

AAPI (Arkansas) has offered these scholarships since 2013 and has continuously stepped up our efforts to give more funds to more kids

2013

$4650

2014

$7000

2015

$10500

2016

$12000

2017

$14500

2018

$32000

We owe tremendous gratitude to our members who donate and make these scholarships possible year after year. We thank these individuals especially for their strong commitment towards our cause

Drs. Balan and Jaya Nair
Dr. TK Rao (ILS)
Mr. Rajesh Chokani (Welspun)
Drs. Prasad and Kalpana Padala

Rajesh Chokhani

Senior Vice President

Welspun Tubular LLC (a subsidiary of WCL) was established to enhance our global enterprise's ability to serve our clients more efficiently in and around the North America market. Situated on a 740-acre site adjacent to the Little Rock Port in Arkansas, the state of the art $150 million API-certified spiral facility is capable of producing 350,000 net tons of HSAW pipes annually. OUr Arkansas facility provides a onee-stop solution to valued Oil and Gas customers in and around the United States. The HFW facility is situated on 45 acres and is in close proximity of the spiral facility and Port with 10 acres for coil receiveing and storage. We have significant storage capabilities with excellent logistical solutions availabale - rail, truck or barge with direct access with UP and BNSF.
Welspun employs 800+ people and has been in production 6 days a week all through the year since its first day of operation. Welspun has approximately $50 million plus in payroll expences welspun moves almost 6000 rail cars and more than 250 barges a year for inbound and outbound movement of their material. Welspun USA, through its Senior Vice President,Mr. Ragesh Chokhani has been istrumental in supporting AAPI Arkansas in its scholarship program for high school and medical college students.

Dr.Thomas K.Rao

Chairman

Headquarterd in Research Triangle Park, NC, Integrated Laboratory Systems, Inc. (ILS) is a toxicology and genomics contract research organization (CRO)nThat serves governmental, commercial, and academic clientele. Dr. Thomas Rao founded ILS in 1985 with two graduate students from North Carolina State University, and has since built the Company into a $20M enterprise with 100+ employees. Dr. Rao, through his foundation supports AAPI Arkansas in its charitable and scholarship activites.

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Our Regional groups including AAPI Northwest Arkansas, AAPI Batesville and AAPI Hot Springs also offer High School Scholarships in their local school districts.

Past Scholarship Recipients

AAPI Central Arkansas - Scholarship Recipients

2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Maresha Jackson	Jade Joiner	Tasfia	Hiteksha Patel	Daphne Jackson
Claros Luis	Jeshrine Mazhil	Sairi	Gabrielle Gillespie	Mathew Wagner
Kilah Wolcott	Sydney McCord	Kiana Frierson	Kerlisa Adams	Jonah Rodgers
Sanjana Padala	Remington Miller	Harinee Arunachalam	Arun Chaudhury	Kennedi Holt
Sarah Douglass	Sahar Tariq	Talaya Jones	Kyra Rattler	Devyani Shekhawat
Abigail Vandervate	Emily Vandervate	Kajal Dasai	Whitleigh Montgomery	Manasa Veluvolu
Abrah Jones	Keith Bradford	Paola Vasquez	Tieranee Ransom	Shruti Shah
Alesia Clay	Taylor Carter	Kelcie Ford	Erica Braswell	Preston McCormic
Chanicia Gaines	Anisha Hatton	Juan Villasenor	Anirudh Pidugu
Destiny Taylor	Alaysia Kelly		Caroline Sweet
Evelyn Perez-Garcia	Alexa McCormack
Kaila Neyland	Nicholas Smith
Mar'yah Jackson
Shauntajah Conway
Trinity Thompson

AAPI Northwest Arkansas - Scholarship Recipients

2018	2017	2016
Casey Castoe	Leah Kyles	Tasfia Jahangir
Sam caskanett	Marcos Sanchez	Siri Zhang
Clair Freeman	Sydney Darling
Alondra Altamirano

AAPI Batesville

Scholarship Recipients 2018
Mackenzie Carter
Elizabeth Devazier

AAPI Hotsprings

Scholarship Recipients 2018
Grace Tedder and Ms. Maddie West (Lake Hamilton School District)
Kayla Grabinski and Ms. Aliza Cabibi-Wilkin (Hot Springs School District)
Lakeside School District - 2 Scholarships

These charity activities are possible only because of generous donations of our members and supporters.

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