The Guilford Rotary Club Memorial Educational Fund, Inc., awarded a total of $23,000 in scholarships to 16 deserving Guilford students. Eleven of the awardees are graduating Guilford High School seniors and five awardees are already attending college or university. Here is a list of the winners and the schools they plan to attend:

Grace Banning* - University of New England

Nicholas Chiu* - Lehigh Universty

Alexa Garbiel* - Wheaton College

Leo Gilbert* - Lafayette College

Sequoia Kessler* - DePaul University

Andre Kish - Harvard University

Joe Landry-McWilliams* - Syracuse or UVM

Tatum Meder - Florida Atlantic University

Isabelle Paris* - University of South Carolina

Connor Rose - Merrimack College

Ella Stanley* - Harvard University

Mary Talalas* - University of New England

Sabrina Trombetta - Amherst College

Katherine Spinnato - University of Connecticut

Sha Jameson* - University of Connecticut

Cade Yerkes* - Brigham Young University-Idaho

*Guilford HS graduating seniors

Nicholas Hunsaker, an alumn of the Guilford High School Interact Club (and now at Providence College), put together a partnership between a Haitian orphanage and several U.S. green companies, including Connecticut honey producers. His new nonprofit organization - Honey For Haiti - raises money through the sale of products here in the U.S. The orphanage is using this seed capital to grow its own food, drill a well for clean water, and make use of renewable energy resources.

Visit Honey for Haiti website