KVH awards tech scholarship to Portsmouth High graduate

MIDDLETOWN – KVH Industries Inc. has awarded 2016 graduate of Portsmouth High School, Bailey Driscoll, with the 2016 A.H. Kits van Heyningen Technology Scholarship.
Driscoll, who will attend Brown University in the fall to study neuroscience and pre-medicine, received $1,000 through the annual scholarship.
To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants had to be a high school senior who is either a resident of Aquidneck Island, attending a high school on Aquidneck Island, or the child or grandchild of a current KVH employee. Applicants also had to have plans to pursue a science, technology, engineering or math program at a four-year college.

“We are thrilled to have Bailey as our newest KVH Technology Scholar. Her academic and extracurricular achievements in high school were exemplary, and we wish her the best as she heads to Brown to study neuroscience and pre-med,” Lynn Stringer, KVH technical writer and a scholarship judge, said in a statement.

Aside from earning a 4.0 GPA while taking a majority of Advanced Placement and honors courses, Driscoll also was a member of the National Honor Society, president of the Language Honor Society and co-president of the Vocal Ensemble. Driscoll competed on the school’s Science Olympiad team, as well as in volleyball and outdoor track and field. She volunteers at Newport Hospital’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.

KVH’s vice president of satellite products and services, Rick Driscoll, is Bailey’s father, making her the second Technology Scholar in nine years to be a relative of a KVH employee.

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KVH’s technology scholarship program, named for its late co-founder and chief scientist, was founded in 2008 in recognition of the role science, technology, engineering and math professionals play in the company’s success.

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