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The Peace Service Association Club will award four $250 scholarships to four qualified Cerritos College students. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is Nov. 21.

Each of the four PSA scholarships have its own requirements for qualified students.

The PSA scholarships will be awarded to an AB540 student, an international student and a math, science, or English major, and the Linda Hsiao scholarship that is exclusively awarded to a PSA Club officer.

Daniel Fragoso, business administration major and co-president of the PSA Club, explained how the scholarships came to be.

“My adviser, Professor John Hsiao, wanted to give out specific scholarships to specific categories,” he said, “so we both came to an agreement that these categories would be good choices to award on.

“We encourage a lot of people to apply. We know that there are a lot of people that definitely deserve the scholarships. The deadline to apply is on Nov. 21 and we will announce the winners around early December.”

Fragoso also explained that this is the first time that PSA is awarding scholarships and that it hopes to do it more often in the future.

The method of raising the money for the scholarships is confidential, but Fragoso said that portions of the money came from fundraising at Cerritos College and from donations.

“I hope [the winners] spend the money to continue going to school, overcome any financial struggle they have, and anything that will help them create peace within themselves and their community as well.”