Student Stories

By Debra Kennard, Board of Directors   Photographs help Claudia Romero remember mileposts from her childhood. She has photos of family gatherings in Mexico, a birthday celebration in Georgia, beach days in...

In 2014, Mikayla Jo Ecker met Scholarship Foundation Advising Director Teresa Steinkamp who had visited Mikayla’s high school, Northwest R-1, to help students with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)....

Class of 2019 Environmental Science Drake University “I learned that if you want something, you can’t let other people’s attitudes stop you. If you see that nobody else is working on something...

Class of 2020 Medicine University of Missouri- Kansas City I have been a recipient of the Ava’s Grace Scholarship and the Interest-Free Loan for many years and it has greatly shouldered the...

Class of 2019 Engineering Southern Illinois University Edwardsville “I am very excited to be able to do this… I will be working with real world engineers and learning from them.” When Diego...

Class of 2017 B.S., Geology | M.S., Sustainability | PhD, Environmental Science & GIS Saint Louis University I have invested years towards educating myself and discovering which purpose I consider mighty. In...

Class of 2017 Political Science Xavier University of Louisiana “Failure is not falling down; it is refusing to get up.” Looking back over Aja’s years with The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis,...

Class of 2009 Bachelor of Arts, History / Saint Louis University Juris Doctor, Law / University of Missouri-Columbia “… it opened a door that would have otherwise been closed.” The Scholarship Foundation...