{"id":22530,"date":"2026-01-07T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/?p=22530"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:12:52","slug":"ahs-students-win-the-city-of-arlingtons-advancing-the-dream-choosing-connection-over-division-essay-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/counseling\/2026\/01\/07\/ahs-students-win-the-city-of-arlingtons-advancing-the-dream-choosing-connection-over-division-essay-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"AHS Students Win the City of Arlington&#8217;s essay competition.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Join us in celebrating two students from Arlington High School&#8217;s senior class!\u00a0 These outstanding young ladies have been awarded a scholarship from the City of Arlington&#8217;s &#8220;Advancing the Dream &#8211; Choosing Connection Over Division &#8221; essay competition.\u00a0 Special thanks to their teachers for their support in writing great essays. \ud83d\ude42 The winners are: Aniyah Butler &#8211; 1st Place &#8211; $1,250 Destiny Okolie &#8211; 2nd Place &#8211; $1,000 Aniyah &amp; Destiny\u00a0 will be recognized at the AISD Board of Trustees Meeting (January 8, 2026, AISD Administration Bldg, 6:00pm) and the MLK Advancing the Dream Gala P.S. This scholarship was just one of many advertised in the scholarship bulletin found\u00a0<a id=\"OWA0631da4d-0747-99e9-1a50-f22158a676a8\" title=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/164XGjch-LRIW7syOB75stOvMSk3PZ9U5NTThk5E4h-g\/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.6d9rx0dskfej\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/164XGjch-LRIW7syOB75stOvMSk3PZ9U5NTThk5E4h-g\/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.6d9rx0dskfej\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Please encourage seniors to keep submitting their applications!\u00a0\u00a0<b><i>The next local scholarship with a guaranteed winner is the Arlington Woman&#8217;s Club Scholarship due January 30th.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in celebrating two students from Arlington High School&#8217;s senior class!\u00a0 These outstanding young ladies have been awarded a scholarship from the City of Arlington&#8217;s &#8220;Advancing the Dream &#8211; Choosing Connection Over Division &#8221; essay competition.\u00a0 Special thanks to their teachers for their support in writing great essays. \ud83d\ude42 The winners are: Aniyah Butler&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22530"}],"version-history":[{"count":"4","href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22540,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22530\/revisions\/22540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aisd.net\/arlington-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}