{"id":19123,"date":"2016-07-07T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=19123"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:39:29","slug":"bta-awards-20-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2016\/07\/bta-awards-20-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"BTA Awards 20 Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"

$1,578,000 has been awarded to students since 1984-85<\/em><\/p>\n

Kansas City, Mo. \u2014 The Business Technology Association (BTA \/ www.bta.org) has announced its 2016-17 scholarship winners. Twenty students were awarded scholarships.<\/p>\n

Each year, BTA awards one $3,000 and a number of $1,000 and $1,500 scholarships to qualifying children of full-time employees of dealerships that are current BTA Retail Dealer members. Since the 1984-85 school year, BTA has presented 1,398 scholarships to deserving students, totaling $1,578,000.<\/p>\n

The BTA Scholarship Foundation is supported by continuing contributions from individual dealers, as well as manufacturers and distributors.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 23, 1968, the Dorothy R. Ames Scholarship Fund was announced in honor of Ames at her retirement dinner in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, for her many contributions to the industry. Ames retired as the executive vice president of the Ames Supply Co. Ultimately, the fund became the BTA Scholarship Foundation, benefiting the sons and daughters of employees of BTA member dealerships nationwide.<\/p>\n

Scholarship recipients are chosen each year by an impartial and independent evaluator. The scholarship recipients for the 2016-17 school year and their sponsoring BTA member dealerships are as follows:
\n\u2022 Cassidy Buffington, Duplicating Products Inc., Gainesville, Georgia
\n\u2022 Orion Couch, Standley Systems, Chickasha, Oklahoma
\n\u2022 Jazmine Dahi, Advanced Office, Santa Ana, California
\n\u2022 Sydney Emmerich, EO Johnson Business Technologies, Wausau, Wisconsin
\n\u2022 Kailey Henderson, Anderson Business Technology, Pasadena, California
\n\u2022 Jeffrey Henize, Waltz Business Solutions, Crestview Hills, Kentucky
\n\u2022 Natalie Jehn, Waltz Business Solutions, Crestview Hills, Kentucky
\n\u2022 Zachary Jones, Copy Link Inc., Chula Vista, California
\n\u2022 David Keys, Fireside Office Solutions, Bismarck, North Dakota
\n\u2022 Matthew Krites, PERRY proTECH, Lima, Ohio
\n\u2022 Blaise McCormick, Duplicator Sales & Service, Louisville, Kentucky
\n\u2022 Megan McKenzie, Applied Imaging, Grand Rapids, Michigan
\n\u2022 Taylor Ortner, American Business Systems Co. Inc., Springfield, Missouri
\n\u2022 Katie Paulich, EO Johnson Business Technologies, Wausau, Wisconsin
\n\u2022 Adrienn Peterson, Century Business Products Inc., Sioux Falls, South Dakota
\n\u2022 Morgan Shipley, SolutionOne, Lincoln, Nebraska
\n\u2022 Jarod Smith, Advanced Systems Inc., Waterloo, Iowa
\n\u2022 Carson Stacy, Professional Business Systems Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas
\n\u2022 Jaykob Velasquez, Gobin’s Inc., Pueblo, Colorado
\n\u2022 Darryl Watkins, Gordon Flesch Company, Dublin, Ohio<\/p>\n

For more information on the BTA Scholarship Foundation, visit www.bta.org\/Scholarships.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1926, the Business Technology Association serves office technology dealerships, resellers, manufacturers, distributors and service companies. Its core members \u2014 office technology dealerships \u2014 consult, sell and service hardware, software and supplies with the primary goal of helping businesses optimize business document and information workflows. Through the association’s various educational programs, information, research, legal services, publications and guidance, BTA member dealerships are positioned to be the premier source of the office technology used by businesses throughout the United States every day. For more information on BTA, visit www.bta.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

$1,578,000 has been awarded to students since 1984-85 Kansas City, Mo. \u2014 The Business Technology Association (BTA \/ www.bta.org) has announced its 2016-17 scholarship winners. Twenty students were awarded scholarships. Each year, BTA awards one $3,000 and a number of $1,000 and $1,500 scholarships to qualifying children of full-time employees of dealerships that are current BTA Retail Dealer members. Since the 1984-85 school year, BTA has presented 1,398 scholarships to deserving students, totaling $1,578,000. The BTA Scholarship Foundation is supported by continuing contributions from individual dealers, as well as manufacturers and distributors. On Feb. 23, 1968, the Dorothy R. Ames Scholarship Fund was announced in honor of Ames at her retirement dinner in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, for her many contributions to the industry. Ames retired as the executive vice president of the Ames Supply Co. Ultimately, the fund became the BTA Scholarship Foundation, benefiting the sons and daughters of employees of BTA member dealerships nationwide. Scholarship recipients are chosen each year by an impartial and independent evaluator. The scholarship recipients for the 2016-17 school year and their sponsoring BTA member dealerships are as follows: \u2022 Cassidy Buffington, Duplicating Products Inc., Gainesville, Georgia \u2022 Orion Couch, Standley Systems, Chickasha, Oklahoma \u2022 Jazmine Dahi, Advanced Office, Santa Ana, California \u2022 Sydney Emmerich, EO Johnson Business Technologies, Wausau, Wisconsin \u2022 Kailey Henderson, Anderson Business Technology, Pasadena, California \u2022 Jeffrey Henize, Waltz Business Solutions, Crestview Hills, Kentucky \u2022 Natalie Jehn, Waltz Business Solutions, Crestview Hills, Kentucky \u2022 Zachary Jones, Copy Link Inc., Chula Vista, California \u2022 David Keys, Fireside Office Solutions, Bismarck, North Dakota \u2022 Matthew Krites, PERRY proTECH, Lima, Ohio \u2022 Blaise McCormick, Duplicator Sales & Service, Louisville, Kentucky \u2022 Megan McKenzie, Applied Imaging, Grand Rapids, Michigan \u2022 Taylor Ortner, American Business Systems Co. Inc., Springfield, Missouri \u2022 Katie Paulich, EO Johnson Business Technologies, Wausau, Wisconsin \u2022 Adrienn Peterson, Century Business Products Inc., Sioux Falls, South Dakota \u2022 Morgan Shipley, SolutionOne, Lincoln, Nebraska \u2022 Jarod Smith, Advanced Systems Inc., Waterloo, Iowa \u2022 Carson Stacy, Professional Business Systems Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas \u2022 Jaykob Velasquez, Gobin’s Inc., Pueblo, Colorado \u2022 Darryl Watkins, Gordon Flesch Company, Dublin, Ohio For more information on the BTA Scholarship Foundation, visit www.bta.org\/Scholarships. Founded in 1926, the Business Technology Association serves office technology dealerships, resellers, manufacturers, distributors and service companies. Its core members \u2014 office technology dealerships \u2014 consult, sell and service hardware, software and supplies with the primary goal of helping businesses optimize business document and information workflows. Through the association’s various educational programs, information, research, legal services, publications and guidance, BTA member dealerships are positioned to be the premier source of the office technology used by businesses throughout the United States every day. For more information on BTA, visit www.bta.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[2696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19124,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123\/revisions\/19124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}