High-School Senior’s Community Resilience Leads to a Multi-State Nonprofit – and a DRI Foundation Scholarship

You can track DRI Foundation Scholarship winner Aidan Joneleit’s entrepreneurial spirit back to his first business pursuit, PokéPulse, an e-commerce site specializing in buying and selling valuable Pokémon cards. He was 11 years old.  “One day I was just looking…

Foundation Scholarship Winner’s Focus on Becoming a Teacher and Winning Ukrainian Dance Competition

After working with Indigenous Services Canada, as a volunteer firefighter in the Manitoba area, and a board member with DRI Canada, it’s not surprising that Brock Holowachuk, CBCP, would pass on a lot of resilience knowledge to his daughter Katelyn,…

Worlds Collide: Volunteerism, Music, and Physics Come Together for Undergrad DRI Foundation Scholarship Winner

DRI Foundation Scholarship winner Gentry Gardner’s impressive list of accomplishments includes an extensive amount of volunteer work, the result of a decision he made at a very young age. “I got involved in scouting back in about first grade, and…

From the Desert to the Stars: High School Senior Scholarship Winner’s Next Step is Aerospace Engineering

When Todd Plesco, CBCP, received the call that his son, Victor, had won the DRI Foundation Scholarship for high school seniors, he was “shocked – pleasantly so!” It’s no secret Victor is a high achieving student. “As an athlete and…