2025 High School Scholarship Awardee
Patrice Neely
($1,000.00 award)
Patrice Neely has been a Housing Choice Voucher resident for 17 years. She is a part of the Class of 2025 John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. She has a 4.2 weighted GPA and completed 5 AP (advanced placement) college level courses. Her extracurricular activities includes being a member of Beta Club, playing the cello since the 6th grade, being named a principal cellist of the Youth Orchestra of Greater Augusta, playing with the Augusta University Orchestra, working for the First Tee – Augusta Program, and being a participant in the 2024 Disney Dreamers Academy and the Tri-M Music City Honors Society.
She credits her orchestra teacher as being her biggest motivation. She has been accepted into Agnes Scott College and Georgia Southern University.