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SHIAWASSEE SCHOLARS
The Shiawassee Regional Education Service District (RESD) program, funded by the Cook Family
Foundation, has identified high-achieving students in Shiawassee County for the past 25 years. It
supports them with academic counseling, scholarship opportunities, and peer-to-peer support to
help them reach their full potential. The program helps students apply for summer scholarships to
explore an area of interest, develop a level of comfort and acceptance of their intelligence,
recognize academic, personal or social challenges and develop strategies to overcome them, excel
academically, and encourage their application to a distinguished college or university. Each year,
rising 9th-graders attend a three-day trip to the University of Michigan, coordinated with the
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, to actively experience academic and extracurricular
offerings. CEO works with the program to begin the students’ visit with a
