CVTC students receive more than $494K in scholarships

Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) students received 470 scholarships and microgrants totaling more than $494,000 throughout the 2025-2026 school year. The students and scholarship donors participated in a CVTC Foundation annual Scholarship Awards Reception to honor the students and donors, recently.

Scholarships were given to incoming and continuing students and span a majority of the CVTC program areas.

From Menomonie: 

Mitchell Hayden, Chippewa Valley Facility Engineers New Student Scholarship and Walter Hestekin Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Richard Kolstad, Don Miller Jr. Memorial Scholarship and The Rowe Family Endowment Scholarship; Colten Thatcher, Chippewa Valley Facility Engineers Scholarship; Luis Torres Valadez, Chippewa Valley Facility Engineers Scholarship and Northwest Wisconsin Building Inspectors' Association Endowment Scholarship-HVAC; Kaci Wittig, Clinton Best Memorial Endowment Scholarship, Disability Endowment Scholarship, and Schroeder Health Profession Scholarship; Donn James, CVTC Welding Endowment Scholarship and Richard Freeburg Honorary Welding Scholarship; Jasmine Blanks, Debra Tillmann Memorial Endowment Scholarship and Gladys Bramblett Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Alexis Georgeson, Denise Waterman Memorial Scholarship; Billy Mcclain, Francis C. Sorrentino Memorial Scholarship I and Francis C. Sorrentino Memorial Scholarship Ii; Jade Munoz, Grazie Salon Cosmetology Scholarship and Linda Weaver-Berdami Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Kasey Trainor, Jim And Nancy Bensen Endowment Scholarship, Li-Ling Huang (É»Ƒ麗Ǟ²) Memorial Endowment Scholarship, and Nicolet National Bank Scholarship; Maci Marlett, John R. Dale Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Jenna Schaefer, Karl & Vila Nygaard Memorial Nursing Endowment Scholarship - Continuing Student and Matthew G. Overhulser Memorial Endowed Nursing Scholarship; Brooklyn Morning, Maybelle Brechlin Price Memorial Endowment Scholarship and Myrtle E. Lemay Best Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Aiden Ayres, Menomonie Paid On-Call Firefighter Jack Ganzemiller Scholarship and The Rowe Family Endowment Scholarship; Anthony Sakry, Northwest Wisconsin Building Inspectors' Association Endowment Scholarship- Residential Construction Eau Claire; Emily Heim, Paul S. Symchych Charitable Foundation Scholarship; Samantha Forberg, Roger Mueller Information Technology Scholarship

From Boyceville: 

Riley Schutz, Consolidated Lumber Company D/B/A Arrow Building Center Endowment Scholarship and St. Croix Valley Home Builders' Association Endowment Scholarship; Michael Montgomery, Roger Mueller Information Technology Scholarship

From Elk Mound: 

Crystal Braker, Ardis N. Mcafee Endowment Scholarship, Cancer Remission/Survivor Endowment Scholarship, and CVTC Nursing Faculty Scholarship; Logan Voight, C & M Homebuilders Scholarship I and C & M Homebuilders Scholarship Ii; Kallee Rhude, Dairy State Bank Endowment Scholarship and Delta Dental Of Wisconsin Foundation And Inclusion Scholarship; Gavin Sundeen, Earl Welke Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Joey Lyman, Gerald Hawkenson Family Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Megan McMahon, John R. Dale Memorial Endowment Scholarship; Weston Fox, Wisconsin Motor Carriers' Association Dave Keays Memorial Scholarship - Truck Driving Student

From Knapp: 

Andrew Marvin, Chippewa Valley Sports Car Club - The Doug Christensen Memorial Scholarship, Jon Kott Mid-State Truck Service Memorial Endowment Scholarship - Auto, and The Rowe Family Endowment Scholarship

Media release.