2014 ISAC Scholarships will be available in early September. 

In 2013, ISAC awarded six $2,500 scholarships, and six $1,000 scholarships.

The scholarships go to high school seniors who are the children of county officials and county employees.

ISAC has had a scholarship program for about 17 years.

In addition, in 2013 ISAC awarded a $2,500 Past President's Scholarship.

ISAC's technology affiliate, Iowa Counties Information Technology Organization, also awarded two $1,000 scholarships in 2013 to high school seniors interested in studying technology in college.

All of the scholarship winners are recognized at a ceremony that takes place every year as part of the business meeting at the ISAC Spring School.

The $2,500 scholarship, past president's award, and the ICIT Scholarship winners for 2013 are as follows:

Kendria Peterson	District 1
Kayla Lueder	District 2
Taylor Holmes	District 3
Zane Rau	District 4
Zach Gish	District 5
Sarah Mork	District 6
Matthew O'Brien	ISAC Past President’s
Ashley Dvorsky	ICIT Scholarship
Vince LaRue	ICIT Scholarship

 

The $1,000 scholarship winners for 2013 are as follows:

Molly O'Brien	District 1
Zachariah Lillquist	District 2
Summer Wulf	District 3 *one time only scholarship in the amount of $1,200
Shelby Wollmuth	District 3
Sam Dreher	District 4
Madison Pullis	District 5
Noah Hagen	District 6
*Regarding the additional District 3 scholarship, these monies were made available for a one time scholarship when ISAC District 3 was dissolved last summer.  They had funds remaining when they closed their account and a decision was made to donate this money to the ISAC scholarship program with the stipulation that this money would be given as an additional one time scholarship to an applicant from ISAC District 3.  This allowed the third runner up, Shelby Wollmuth to be granted the $1,000.00 scholarship and Summer Wulf the $1,200.00 award.

The ISAC Scholarship rules require that there be 7 scholarship judges, one from each ISAC district and one from the ISAC Board, chosen based on gender and affiliate.

Here are the ISAC Scholarship judges for the 2013 ISAC scholarship awards:
District 1 – Deb Schildroth, Story County Community Services
District 2 – Peggy Rice, Humboldt County Auditor
District 3 – Kathy Sands, Woodbury County Assessor
District 4 – Kim Behrens, Page County Treasurer
District 5 – Melissa Bird, Keokuk County Recorder
District 6 – Ralph Kremer, Buchanan County Supervisor
ISAC Board – Joan McCalmant, Linn County Recorder

The ISAC Scholarship applications are distributed and posted on the ISAC website in early September, and then a copy appears in the ISAC magazine in November. Applications are always due in mid-December. We usually get between 90 and 100 applications. The scholarships are funded by the ISAC Education Foundation. A large part of the funds are gained from the annual ISAC Scholarship Golf Fundraiser. The 2013 ISAC Scholarship Golf Fundraiser will be held at Otter Creek Golf Course on August 22, 2013.

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