
Help Vicente attend Univ. Rochester
Hi folks! I have set up this campaing to help Vicente Fernández achieve his dream college education. Vicente lived for a few years in Columbus, OH and is now back in his native Chile. I will let Vicente's dad and my good friend Alfonso Fernández tell you the full story:
Vicente, our oldest son who will turn 16 this summer, was recently accepted to a pre-college summer program at the University of Rochester. He was naive enough to apply as well as smart enough to convince me to support his application! He was selected among numerous applicants distributed worldwide and awarded a full-tuition scholarship ($2800) to attend the program entitled "The Art of Data Structures" between June 27 and July 22, 2016. His is interested in computer science and graphic design and his dream is to attend a major US engineeting school like OSU, Stanford, MIT, etc...
While the award covers tuition we are still responsible for the travel and health insurace costs. We have the funds to pay for the insurance but regrettably are currently unable to afford the round-trip flight tickets.
We would like to know if you would be willing to help us out in obtaining $2000 for Vicente's ticket (the required 20 hour flight as for today costs about US$ 1700) and other trip related costs such local transportation, food and potential need for lodging.
Thank you so much for helping Vicente take this very important first step toward his academic goals!