Valvettithurai based Sharanja Mathyvannan received the William F. Tapking, Jr Scholarship, who has graduated high school (12th grade) on June 5, 2016.
Only one student is awarded this scholarship annually and so far only the male students have been receiving this scholarship.
This is the first year this scholarship has been awarded to a female student - Sharanja Mathyvannan.
Sharanja Mathyvannan is going to UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County, she is planning to go in to the engineering field and aspire to be a Neurosurgeon.
William “Tiger” Tapking of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Class of 1909, was an engineering department faculty member and chair from 1921 through 1959. Mr. Tapking left a generous bequest to the BPI Foundation making this scholarship possible.
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