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ASJMSF Scholarship
Distinguished Recipient
A recent high school honors graduate
from Barron Collier High School in Naples,
Michael Dina received a class rank of 26 out
of 356 students with a weighted GPA of 5.22
taking demanding Advanced Placement
courses while participating in many
extracurricular activities. The son of Jasmine
and John Dina, who is a project manager
at Mitchell & Stark Construction, Michael
is this year’s distinguished High School
recipient of the Andrew Scott Johnson
Memorial Scholarship Foundation’s $7500
Scholarship. With this scholarship, Michael
will enroll at the Florida State University as
a freshman in the Fall and plans to pursue
an undergraduate degree in Mechanical
Engineering, with the intent of pursuing a
career in the robotics or automotive industry.
Teachers describe Michael as bright
articulate, independent and even brilliant.
With his straight-A grades, Michael was
recognized with Department Awards in
Human Geography, Pre-Calculus and
Spanish, a Robotics Academic Achievement
Award, a Sons of the American Revolution
Book Award, an AP Scholar of Distinction
and as a Top Ten Senior. He was inducted
into the National Honor Society. Also, he
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received 7 college credits
by passing the AP exams in Environmental
Science, Human Geography, Biology, World
History, Calculus, English Literature and
Composition, and US History.
A natural leader amongst his friends and
peers, Michael excelled in leadership
positions during his extracurricular school
activities such as band, where he was
Section Leader and Drum Major, Solar Go-
Kart Club, where he was President, and
Robotics Club, where he was President. He
also participated in JV soccer during his first
two years of high school.
In his “free time,” outside of the school
structure, Michael has been an active
member of the Optimist Club of Naples, his
church youth group and TOPSoccer, which
is a community-based training program for
athletes with intellectual, emotional, and
or physical disabilities. He has also been a
Florida Youth Soccer Referee and a soccer
coach for the Azzurri Storm.
As you can see, as one of his teachers
wrote, “Michael has it all, ability,
achievement, accomplishment, leadership,
humility, decorum and wit.”
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