2023-2024 Birmingham Scholars
Twenty seniors have been named Birmingham Scholars for the 2023-2024 school year and were officially recognized at a banquet held in their honor on April 11, 2024. These students were selected based on their SAT and ACT scores, class ranking, and good moral character in addition to being in the top ten percent of their class. The students also completed an autobiography and electronic personal interview with three judges representing superintendents from Dallas, Collin and Rockwall counties. Additionally, in order to qualify for the scholarship, students must have received all of their grades from a Wylie ISD high school.
The scholarship recipients from Wylie High School are:
Daniel Abagwe
Aamina Aslam
Pihu Bhatt
Zain Farooq
Mateo Guzman
Carley Knight
Lindsey Lee
Donnelle Nguyen
Kennedy Ostoja
Isabella Salander
The Birmingham Scholars from Wylie East are:
Thereza Arcuri
Ginan Dashti
Yamina Dashti
William Dozier
Nathan Mai
Isabella McCord
Tendai Mweene
Chelsea Ombadykow
Perla Santibanez
Cali Scott
The Miss Pearl Birmingham Scholarship fund was established in 1947 by T.F. Birmingham to comply with a request by his sister, Pearl, who died in 1946. In her will, she left 1,000 shares of common stock in Standard Oil Company of Ohio to support an annual scholarship for an outstanding Wylie graduate. Today the fund supports twenty scholarships valued from $5,000 to $7,500.
Pictured are, Back row (l to r): Kennedy Ostoja, Tendai Mweene, Isabella McCord, Isabella Salander, Cali Scott, William Dozier, Daniel Abagwe, Mateo Guzman, Zain Farooq, Perla Santibanez. Front row (l to r): Carley Knight, Donnelle Nguyen, Yamina Dashti, Thereza Arcuri, Chelsea Ombadykow, Nathan Mai, Pihu Bhatt, Ginan Dashti, Lindsey Lee, Aamina Aslam.