ROCKLAND — OUT Maine has awarded scholarships to four Maine students for the 2024-2025 school year, totaling over $42,000 in coverage of college tuition and housing costs.

Two of the four students are second-year college students. OUT Maine awards these scholarships on a yearly basis, renewing them to meet their recipients’ unique financial needs for every year that they attend a higher education institution. The other two awardees are first year students.

Ty Delong and Sasha Saedan are sophomores at Bennington College in Vermont, and second year recipients of OUT Maine’s scholarship.

Rose Chaloult, hailing from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, is now a freshman at St. Michael’s College in Vermont benefitting from a scholarship from OUT Maine.

Hunter Hillard is a graduate of Traip Academy in Kittery, and now attends Southern Maine Community College as a first year student receiving an OUT Maine scholarship.
 
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OUT Maine has an ambitious goal: to create more welcoming and affirming communities for Maine’s diverse queer youth in all their intersectional identities by changing the very systems that serve them. For more information, please visit www.outmaine.org.