The Brayden Spencer Powell Memorial Scholarship was formed to keep the memory of our son alive while helping Prairie Ridge High School seniors make college more affordable. Our first born son passed away from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the fall of 2007. Supporters of Brayden’s scholarship gather together each summer to participate in a golf outing and auction at Prairie Isle Golf Club. The success of last year’s event, in addition to some incredible support from the senior project’s 5K run and the student council’s “teacher gift” donation, allowed us to award $30,000 in scholarships this year! Thank you so much to anyone who helped to promote these events or participated in them. We have been completely overwhelmed with the love and support over the history of this scholarship, but especially this past spring because all of those aforementioned fundraisers were ideas from the students at our school. They are great kids, and we appreciate their thoughtfulness very much.
To be eligible for the scholarship a student must have been nominated by a faculty member at PR. We asked the faculty to nominate students that were extremely hard working and could benefit financially from the scholarship. Many deserving students were nominated, and they should feel honored. We are so proud of all of the nominated students and are thankful to them for carrying on the memory of Brayden in a positive manner. We are proud to announce that this year’s winners are James Davis-Olander (Western Illinois University), Katarina Jensen (McHenry County College), Anten Johnson (North Dakota State University), Dimitri Malouhos (McHenry County College), Nicole Sessler (McHenry County College), and Heather Zimmerman (McHenry County College).
We invite you to please visit the website in memory of our boy. We have details on the outing, Brayden’s story, many pictures, and information on all of our scholarship winners past and present.
Since the inception of this scholarship we have now helped 24 students with $113,500 worth of scholarships. We invite you to help us fundraise for the next scholarship by attending the 6th Annual Brayden Spencer Powell Memorial Golf Outing and Dinner/Auction on July 12, 2013.