CMC3 Foundation Scholarships
The CMC3 Foundation awards an average of $6,000 a year in scholarships every year to students attending Northern California community colleges. These scholarships are made possible by generous donations to the CMC3 foundation. You too can contribute to the CMC3 Foundation.
Scholarship Nominations!
Do you have a student you would like to nominate for a scholarship? If you are a member, please do so. If not, become a member and do so! The deadline to submit a scholarship nomination form is April 18, 2025 and the scholarship recipients will be announced on Friday, April 25, 2025.
The scholarship nomination form is available in both Word and PDF forms.
If you have any questions about the Foundation Scholarships, please contact the Foundation Board President.
2024 Winners
| Amount | Winner | College |
|---|---|---|
| $2000 | Vishal Duggal | City College of San Francisco |
| $2000 | Seth Villacencio | City College of San Francisco |
| $2000 | Seth Sarkar | Santa Rosa Junior College |
The student speaker at the 2023 spring conference, who received a $500 scholarship was Forrest Day. He received a $500 scholarship for his talk, which was very well received.
Prior CMC3 Foundation Scholarship Winners
| Year | Amount | Winner | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2000 | Vishal Duggal | City College of San Francisco |
| $2000 | Seth Villavicencio | City College of San Francisco | |
| $2000 | Seth Sarkar | Santa Rosa Junior College | |
| 2023 | $3000 | Hannah Harris | Santa Rosa Junior College |
| $3000 | Chloe Tucker | City College of San Francisco | |
| 2022 | Due to pandemic, no scholarships were awarded. | ||
| 2021 | $1500 | Richard Lo | City College of San Francisco |
| $1500 | Brianne Parmer | Modesto Junior College | |
| $1500 | Alexander Renteria | Mendocino College | |
| $1500 | Talia Saarinen | Santa Rosa Junior College | |
| 2020 | $3000 | LiaMari Cox | Mendocino College |
| $3000 | Anara Myrzabekova | City College of San Francisco | |
| 2019 | $1500 | Daniel Lucas | Mendocino College |
| $1500 | Mukul Sharda | American River Collegw | |
| $1000 | Nathan "Ry" Simmons-Davis | Mendocino College | |
| $1000 | Jeremiah J Barron | Fresno City College | |
| $500 | Cody Vig | Solano Community College | |
| $500 | Junting Tiffany Huang | City College of San Francisco | |
| 2018 | $1000 | Jeremy Ronco | Mendocino College |
| $1000 | Levi Baguley | Mendocino College | |
| $1000 | Hannah Brown | Lake Tahoe Community College | |
| $1000 | Laura Johnson | Las Positas College | |
| $1000 | Samira Sebt | West Valley College | |
| $1000 | Andres Franco Valiente | Ohlone College | |
| 2017 | $1000 | Brett Bussell | Modesto Junior College |
| $1000 | Huy Duong | American River College | |
| $1000 | Elizabeth Rygg | American River College | |
| $1000 | Claudia Plascencia | American River College | |
| $1000 | Jonathan Mendez | Mendocino College | |
| $1000 | Kang Nguyen | Mission College | |
| 2016 | $3000 | Katherine Kays-Hoepker | Sierra College |
| $2000 | Yizhuang (Nancy) Kang | Las Positas College | |
| $1000 | Ashley Rosas | West Valley College | |
| 2015 | $3000 | Christian Casteneda | American River College |
| $2000 | Niels Schneider | Hartnell College | |
| $1000 | Jordan Rayburn | Solano Community College | |
| 2014 | $2500 | Nataliya Polichshuk | Cosumnes River College |
| $2500 | Amethyst Raybee | Mendocino College | |
| $500 | Huy Truong | Evergreen Valley College | |
| $500 | Xinyu (Jason) Liu | Sacramento City College | |
| 2013 | $400 | Yael Nefertiti Numark | American River College |
| $400 | Ami Rose | Butte College | |
| $400 | Jingwei You | Chabot College | |
| $400 | Michael White | College of the Redwoods | |
| $400 | Caleb Price | College of the Sequoias | |
| $400 | Nicholas Stalder | College of the Siskiyous | |
| $400 | Gary Wilkin | Evergreen Valley College | |
| $400 | Kristin Jacobs | Feather River College | |
| $400 | Ricky Martinez | Fresno City College | |
| $400 | Alex Cota | Hartnell College | |
| $400 | Greg Shelton | Mendocino College | |
| $400 | Christian Ortega | Monterey Peninsula College | |
| $400 | Michael Dizon | Ohlone College | |
| $400 | Stanislav Oleynik | Sacramento City College | |
| 2012 | $400 | Emilee Miller | Bakersfield College |
| $400 | Huiting Zheng | City College of San Francisco | |
| $400 | Maja Jennifer Oblepias | Contra Costa College | |
| $400 | Kim Angel Solania | Cosumnes River College | |
| $400 | Mami Saito | Cuesta College | |
| $400 | TBA | DeAnza College | |
| $400 | Nick Sabatini | Diablo Valley College | |
| $400 | Samantha Saenz | Gavilan College | |
| $400 | Erik Aldape | Laney College | |
| $400 | Andrew Koth | Las Positas College | |
| $400 | Ryan Gewondjan | Los Medanos College | |
| $400 | Resham Sandhu | Merced College | |
| $400 | Ahn Le | Mission College | |
| $400 | Mike Aljamal | Modesto Junior College | |
| $400 | Maria Garibay | Napa Valley College | |
| $400 | Julio Zepeda | Reedley College | |
| $400 | Jared Carr | Santa Rosa Junior College | |
| $400 | TBA | Shasta College | |
| $400 | Andrew Keeslar | West Valley College | |
| 2011 | $400 | Luke Phillip Larson | Allan Hancock College |
| $400 | Esther Rojas-Soto | Berkeley City College | |
| $400 | John Poliquin | Cabrillo College | |
| $400 | Francisco Lopez | Canada College | |
| $400 | TBA | College of Alameda | |
| $400 | Luis Tercero-Lopez | College of Marin | |
| $400 | Jessica Yoshiko Kurata | College of San Mateo | |
| $400 | Meghan McKinney | Columbia College | |
| $400 | Sam D’Anna | Folsom Lake College | |
| $400 | TBA | Foothill College | |
| $400 | Jared Arnold | Lake Tahoe Community College | |
| $400 | Walter Kagel | Lassen College | |
| $400 | TBA | Merritt College | |
| $400 | Jennifer K. Davis | Porterville College | |
| $400 | Allison Van Pelt | Santa Barbara City College | |
| $400 | Bardia Keyoumarsi | Solano Community College | |
| $400 | Dalton Thornsberry | Taft College | |
| $400 | TBA | West Hills College | |
| $400 | Jaime Munoz | Yuba College | |
| 2010 | $400 | Bryn Ellison | American River College |
| $400 | Jody Ryker | Butte College | |
| $400 | Andria Barraza | Chabot College | |
| $400 | Ian M. Snyder | College of the Redwoods | |
| $400 | Guadalupe Garcia-Diaz | College of the Sequoias | |
| $400 | Kyson Culp | College of the Siskiyous | |
| $400 | Minh Thao Luong | Evergreen Valley College | |
| $400 | Octavio P. Flores | Feather River College | |
| $400 | Lucimar Myers | Fresno City College | |
| $400 | Ryan Rimbey | Hartnell College | |
| $400 | Shawna Byrns | Mendocino College | |
| $400 | Willy Anderson Dinata | Monterey Peninsula College | |
| $400 | H. Lau M. Ong | Ohlone College | |
| $400 | Lei Lei | Sacramento City College | |
| $400 | John Clark | San Joaquin Delta College | |
| $400 | Alice R. Toms | San Jose City College | |
| $400 | William Allbritain | Sierra College | |
| $400 | Daniel Mendoza | Skyline College |