Annual Award Tops $100K.

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) has awarded $4,000 scholarships to two graduating seniors from Holyoke Public Schools to support their higher education goals. Now in its 12th year, the MGHPCC’s merit-based scholarship program has awarded over $100,000 in total grants to date.

The MGHPCC scholarship program is open to any Holyoke Public School student enrolling at one of the five founding members of the MGHPCC: Boston University, Harvard University, Northeastern University, MIT or University of Massachusetts. It is open to students in any major and not limited to students of computer science or other scientific disciplines. Recipients are chosen on the basis of an 800-word essay answering the question, “What do you see as the three biggest challenges currently facing Holyoke, and what would you do to address them?”