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Lincoln Tech Students Receive Mike Rowe Works Foundation Scholarships
WEST ORANGE, NJ, Oct. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation (NASDAQ: LINC), a national leader in specialized technical
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[{"type":"text","content":"WEST ORANGE, NJ, Oct. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation (NASDAQ: LINC), a national leader in specialized technical training for more than 20 hands-on career fields, has announced that two students from its South Plainfield, NJ campus have been selected to receive Work Ethic Scholarships from the Mike Rowe Works Foundation. Nzinga Porter and Dom Ciacco, both enrolled in the Welding career training program, were selected to receive scholarships totaling more than $20,000. They are among fewer than 200 students across the country chosen for the award.\n “Mike Rowe was actually the person that made me realize that I could turn welding into a career,” Ciaccio says. “In high school I watched him on YouTube speaking about the “skills gap”. I found myself agreeing with everything he said. As a sophomore, I had to wait two years before I could apply, but I knew I’d be a strong applicant once I did. I was the person at my job [at a deli] that would do the tasks that no one else wanted to do; at the end of the day someone had to do these jobs.” Porter, who enrolled at the South Plainfield campus despite commuting nearly every day from the Bronx, NY, said that as she completed her application for the scholarship earlier this year, “None of the values of the Mike Rowe Works Foundation were foreign to me. Being a hard worker, not being a complainer, emphasizing attention to detail and safety – these are qualities I’ve developed over the course of my life. I felt confident that my values matched theirs.” The Work Ethic Scholarship is provided by the Mike Rowe Foundation as part of its effort to encourage students to pursue hands-on trades as a career. The application process for the Work Ethic Scholarship required submitting up to 10 professional references, writing several essays about the meaning of “work ethic” and professional goals, and creating a video essay to be made public on YouTube. Rowe, a TV personality and commentator best known for hosting “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery Channel, has advocated for skilled trades education for more than a decade. Assisting students in financing an education that can help them graduate with in-demand skills and less debt is a key component of the Foundation’s philosophy. “It’s an honor to know that Lincoln Tech students were recognized by this prestigious organiza...