The Milken Foundation this afternoon announced its 2008 Milken Scholars -- who each receive $10,000 scholarships -- and five local students are on the list.
About-to-be Torrance High grad Diana Baik, who's bound for Johns Hopkins University; new Palos Verdes High alum Hong Ye (Sam) Mai, headed for UC Berkeley; plus Dora Duru (Stanford), Shahla Naimi (Yale) and Morris Vanegas (MIT), all new grads of CSU Dominguez Hills-housed California Academy of Mathematics and Science are among the 12 so selected.
The whole group with gather for a retreat in July, being held at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where they'll meet and mingle with prior recipients and participate in panel discussions and workshops with foundation staff and various speakers.
Congrats, kids!
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