BUGS Announces Third Year of Alumni Scholarships to Support Transition to College

Thanks to a generous alumni family, Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS) is able to offer a third year of our college scholarship program. Students who graduated from BUGS in 2018 and are enrolling in college in the fall of 2022 are invited to apply. The deadline to submit scholarship applications is Friday. July 15, 2022. The application is available HERE and should be submitted to susan.bakst@BUGSbrooklyn.org.

The scholarship was launched by the BUGS community to provide a financial award to a student or students who embody our C.A.R.E,S, values and have taken the seeds sown at BUGS to continue to explore and fight for a sustainable future. Our many thanks to Ann James for funding this year’s program and board member Jamal Deek for his leadership.

“We are so proud of the Class of 2018 and look forward to hearing  how the values and commitment to sustainability that they learned at BUGS has remained central to who they are and what they want to achieve. I am so honored and grateful that we have the opportunity to support these thoughtful, caring, and compassionate BUGS alumni.” -- Susan Tenner, Executive Director, Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School. 

Click HERE for the application. For more information, please contact Susan Bakst, Director of Marketing and Outreach, at susan.bakst@BUGSbrooklyn.org.