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Tonganoxie High senior candidate for Presidential Scholar

By Staff | Feb 5, 2016

A Tonganoxie High School senior is one of more than 4,000 candidates to be selected for this year’s U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.

Tonganoxie’s Spencer Finkbiner, son of Eric and Karen Finkbiner, was among the candidates chosen from nearly 3.3 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in 2016.

Each year, up to 161 U.S. Presidential Scholars are selected and invited in June to Washington, D.C., for events and activities culminating in presentation of the Presidential Scholars Medallion at the White House. Some 800 semifinalists will be selected in April. The U.S. Department of Education will announce the scholars in May.