The Decorah Community School District Foundation has awarded ExCel Scholarships to nine students.
The ExCel grant program supports summer educational programs for students currently in grades 6 - 11, and who are enrolled in the Decorah Community School District, or St. Benedicts School or homeschooled students supervised by the Decorah School District.
The recipients and their programs of study are
--Jada Bushman, Iowa School for the Deaf Movie Magic and Sports Camps; --Ben Klammer, Concordia Language Camp Waldsee's German Apprentice Program
--Dalton Brown, UNI Jazz Combo Camp
--Layne Guerrero, Iowa School for the Deaf Movie Magic and Sports
Camps
--Michael Foster, Naval Academy Summer Seminar
--Annika Vande Krol, Summer Journalism Workshop - University of Iowa
--Emma Fretheim, Concordia Language Villages - Japanese Camp
--Charles Baldwin, Interlochen Center for the Arts
--Connor Freeman, Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy.