EnergySolutions Foundation Announces 3 Distinguished Award Scholarships
Three students chosen from 120 to Receive Additional Scholarship Awards of $2,500, $5,000 and $25,000
Salt Lake City, Utah - May 9, 2008 Three Utah students will be able to worry a little less about paying for their college education. Michael Young, a sophomore at Skyline High School, and Zachary Swenson, a sophomore at Riverton High School, and Jacob Sorenson, a sophomore at Viewmont High School are the Distinguished Award recipients of the EnergySolutions Foundation scholarship.
Exemplary students from 120 high schools in Utah were selected to receive $2,000 merit-based scholarships. All recipients were then entered into the competition for the three Distinguished Awards. Michael Young, Zachary Swenson, and Jacob Sorenson were selected from that pool of applicants to receive the additional $25,000; $5,000 and $2,500 scholarships which are to be used in math, science, or engineering studies.
The EnergySolutions Foundation began the scholarship program in 2006 as a way to promote the study of math, science, and engineering to encourage the next generation of professionals to seek degrees in biochemistry, chemistry, ecology, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, or physics.
Michael is the recipient of the additional $25,000. He is taking a rigorous class schedule including, AP Physics, AP US History, IB Math and Honors English, and Honors Chemistry. He wants to be mathematician. He placed first in his grade in the 2005 and 2007 Utah State Math contest. Also in 2007 he placed first in Utah on both the American mathematical Contest 10th and 12th grade exams. He studies Mandarin Chinese and belongs to the Chinese Society of Utah and with his interest in computer programming; he volunteered to create the website for that society and still maintains it. He is also the webmaster for the Cottonwood Heights Math Counts. Peter Trapa, associate professor of mathematics and faculty coordinator for Math Circle at the University of Utah, says "Michael is among the top 5 students I have seen and he would likely hold his own among entering math majors at Harvard or MIT, yet he is only a 10th grader."
Zachary is the recipient of the additional $5,00 and was math and foreign language student of the year and has participated in many science fairs and always placed in the top 3. This year, he received the ASM award for best project in material science at the BYU Science and Engineering Fair for his project on concrete additives. Last year, Zachary took summer classes to free up his school schedule for advanced science, math, and band classes at school in the fall.
Jacob is he recipient of the additional $2,500 and wants to be an engineer and benefit the world around him. He is a member of the National Junior Honor Society and received "Math Student of the Year" Award and "Presidential Award for Educational Excellence." He is also a member of the swing dance club and a math tutor. He has always had straight As and is number 1 in a class of 569.
"Our goal with the EnergySolutions Foundation scholarship program is to help these motivated students fulfill their desire of a college education," said Jordan Clements, Chairman of the Board for the EnergySolutions Foundation.
"Because the scholarship program is an extension of our commitment to this great community where EnergySolutions employees live and work, I am happy for the difference this will make the education of these students," said Steve Creamer, CEO of EnergySolutions.
The EnergySolutions Foundation will honor all Utah scholarship recipients at a banquet on Saturday, May 10th at Little America.
For more information about the scholarship program, please contact Pearl Wright at (801) 870-1505 or visit our website at
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