Submitted Photo Scholarship recipients and a Trinity Health official shown from left to right: back, Rocio Reina, Kayla Rascoe, Hannah Hagen, Cambry Frantsvog, Cindy Deegan, Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer Ben Anderson of Trinity, Jennifer Hartleib, front: Gloria Kennedy, Krysten Glab, Drew Feist, Skye Witmer and Ella Spraggs.

Ten nursing students and one high school student received scholarships to further their nursing education during an awards program on Jan. 9 in Minot.

The event brought students and supporters together to recognize recipients and honor contributors to Trinity Health Foundation’s Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund.

Receiving $10,000 scholarships were Krysten Glab and Hannah Hagen, who are pursuing degrees at Minot State University, and Kayla Rascoe, who is pursuing a degree at Dakota College at Bottineau.

The $10,000 scholarships are newly established awards granted to three individuals who made a two-year commitment to work for Trinity Health upon graduation.

“We are awarding these scholarships to not only benefit the profession of nursing but also to benefit the Minot region. We want to keep talent here, and if you leave, we want you to come back,” said Ben Anderson, vice president/chief nursing officer at Trinity Health,

Those receiving $3,000 scholarships were Cindy Deegan, Rocio Reina and Skye Witmer, who are pursuing degrees at DCB, and Drew Feist, Cambry Frantsvog, Jennifer Hartleib and Gloria Kennedy, who are pursuing degrees at MSU. Hartleib was the recipient of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Scholarship, funded by BCBSND.

Additionally, Ella Spraggs, a Minot High School student in the healthcare careers class who plans to study nursing at MSU, was the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship.