{"id":983,"date":"2020-09-24T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbapierce.tacomawebsite.net\/?p=983"},"modified":"2023-12-30T00:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T08:26:26","slug":"mba-pierce-announces-2020-scholarship-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/mba-pierce-announces-2020-scholarship-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Builders Association of Pierce County Announces 2020 Scholarship Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Master Builders Association of Pierce County (Master Builders Association of Pierce County) is proud to announce 2020 scholarship recipients, all of whom are pursuing higher education in the home building industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaster Builders Association of Pierce County encourages young professionals to consider and pursue a career in the home building industry,\u201d said Master Builders Association of Pierce County Executive Officer Jeremiah Lafranca. \u201cThere\u2019s been a significant shortage in the trades in recent years. We hope Master Builders Association of Pierce County <a href=\"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/master-builders-scholarships-and-bolt\/\">scholarships<\/a> motivate and inspire students to further their education in this field.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two winners were chosen based on the applicant\u2019s field of study, extracurricular activities and building industry work experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s winners are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Kenneth Brooks \u2013 <em>Construction Management, University of Washington<\/em><\/li><li>Jon Huntington \u2013 <em>Construction Management, Southern Methodist University<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scholarship applications were reviewed and evaluated by a committee made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/join-mba-and-habitat-for-humanity\/\">Master Builders Association of Pierce County<\/a> members, who then selected the winning recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/get-your-next-renovation-project-started\/\">Master Builders Association of Pierce County\u2019s scholarships<\/a> are funded solely by its member donations. The 2019 fundraising effort raised just over $20,000 for our scholarship fund. <a href=\"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/master-builders-store-now-open\/\">Master Builders<\/a> Association of Pierce County plans to use remaining funds toward developing a trades program for youth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/master-builders-showcase\/\">Master Builders<\/a> Association of Pierce County\u2019s Scholarship Program, please contact Sheryl Bushaw at 253-272-2112.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Builders Association of Pierce County (Master Builders Association of Pierce County) is proud to announce 2020 scholarship recipients, all of whom are pursuing higher education in the home building industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7724,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}