BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Four students on Thursday night beamed with happiness because their dreams are on the verge of becoming realities.
Manuel Andrade, Nia Blanks, Tommy Bui and Dhavena Tejpaul will become the first members of their families to attend college next fall with help from “No Doors Closed Scholar Awards” that were established by Vikings Chief Operating Officer Kevin Warren, and his wife, Greta.
The Warren family presented the awards, which include $5,000 scholarships for each student, at the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191’s Board of Education meeting.
Each scholarship is renewable for each student for four years (up to a $20,000 total per student), and the Warrens will add four students to the program in each of the next three years so that 16 scholars will be in the program on a rolling basis.