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Scholarship Recipients

The Steve Prchal Memorial Scholarship was established in Steve’s honor to continue his dream of ‘turning the world onto bugs’.

2026 scholarship recipients:

Olivia Rondon. 2026 Scholarship winner. They have a striped shirt and blue jeans. She has brown hair and is releasing a cage of butterflies.
Olivia Rondon
Todd Waters. 2026 Scholarship winner. They have a brown hat, a gray sweater and blue pants
Todd Waters

Olivia Rondon, Todd Waters

2025 scholarship recipients:

Reyna Baldwin
Reyna Baldwin
Shelby Grice
Shelby Grice
Madison Hall
Madison Hall

Reyna Baldwin, Shelby Grice, and Madison Hall



2024 scholarship recipients:

A women with a big straw hat and long hair, smiling in a field.
Jillian Kurovski-Legris
A person with wire rim glasses and short hair, smiling at the camera. They are wearing a cool embroidered moth sweatshirt.
Shayan Farhang
A man with short hair smiling at the camera. They are kneeling in a forest, holding some scientific instruments.
Zachary Kaminski

Jillian Kurovski-Legris, Shayan Farhang, and Zachary Kaminski

2023 scholarship recipients:

Cortney Norris
Rebecca Freant
Julianne Darnell

2022 scholarship recipients:

Megan Torgerson
Sebastian Echeverri
Ainsley Basham

2021 scholarship recipients:

Irene Dickinson
James Hall

2019 scholarship recipients:

Renee Hazen
Kit Mulkerin
Maggie Solum

2018 scholarship recipients:

Joshua Butler
Dana Gilbertson

2017 scholarship recipients:

Kayla Garcia
Annie Rich
Winnefred Wolfe


2016 scholarship recipients:

Camilla Leurini
Emily Noel
Katie Malmberg

2015 scholarship recipients:

Patricia Samota
Jon Bertolas
Kenneth Valverde-Martinez