‘Rock My Grad Party’ Contest Winner Announced by NextStudent

The winner of the ‘Rock My Grad Party’ Contest, sponsored by NextStudent, a leading Phoenix-based education funding company, actually is not a graduating senior, but is a junior who will graduate in 2008. Matthew Pierre, from Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, AZ, who won a brand new laptop computer for his own use and $5,000 for his school’s grad night party, entered the contest in order to honor his senior friends and because he loves his school, he said. “Marcos is an awesome school,” he commented. NextStudent ran the Web-based contest throughout April and May as a means to promote higher education and its Scholarship Search Engine (http://www.nextstudent.com/scholarship_search/scholarship_search.asp) to Phoenix-area high schools. Pierre, a confessed t View the rest of this article