IoPP Names Winners Of Its 2020 Packaging Education Scholarships The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) has an- nounced the recipients of its 2020 Scholarship opportuni- ties. Students applied for a chance to be awarded one of the following five IoPP Scholarships: • PepsiCo R&D Scholarship: $5,000 – one available • IoPP Packaging Education Scholarships: $2,500 – two available • IoPP Packaging Education Scholarships: $1,000 – one available from IoPP’s Central Ohio Chapter • IoPP Packaging Education Scholarships: $500 – one available from the IoPP New England Chapter This year IoPP more than doubled the number of ap- plicants to its Packaging Education Scholarship Fund, go- ing from 19 applicants in 2019 to 39 applicants in 2020. Chosen from the nearly 40 applicants, are this year’s IoPP scholarship winners: • Mackenna Payne, a packaging student at Michigan State University (class of 2020) has been awarded the PepsiCo R&D Scholarship worth $5,000. • Margaret Kendhammer, a packaging student at the University of Wisconsin-Stout (class of 2021), has been awarded one of the $2,500 IoPP Packaging Education Scholarships. • Jennifer Kallman, a packaging science student at the Rochester Institute of Technology (class of 2021), has been awarded one of the $2,500 IoPP Packaging Edu- cation Scholarships. • Alanna Fallone, a packaging science student at the Rochester Institute of Technology (class of 2020), has been awarded the brand new $1,000 IoPP Packaging Education Scholarship, sponsored by IoPP’s Central Ohio Chapter. • Tu Chung, a packaging student at San Jose State Uni- versity (class of 2020), has been awarded the $500 IoPP Packaging Education Scholarship, sponsored by IoPP’s New England Chapter. More information about this year’s scholarship winners can be found online. Special thanks to the judges who vol- unteered their time to select the winners of these presti- gious scholarships: • Ali Ali – Siemens • Jane Chase, CPP, Fellow – IoPP, Executive Director • Matt Culver, CPP – Target Corporation
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• Brandon Frank – PPC Packaging • Susan Gruskin, CPP – PepsiCo
• Rebecca Oesterle, CPP – IoPP Board Chair • Amy Schupbach, CPP – Adept Packaging • Maggie Turner, CPP – Amazon
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