Dozens of Schools and Colleges Student Compete For ATB Scholarship

Scholarship applicants must also come from a school or university with a minimum accreditation of B.

Students who can apply for Scholarship are those who have performed as great student in class X or XI. While college students are those who have minimum GPA of 3.75 in semester 2, 4, 6.

Having passed the administrative selection, scholarship recipients must face the interview stage.

One of the lucky ones is Puri Sinta Dewi, a Informatics Engineering Student from SMK Negeri 1 Batam.

Puri claimed to get information about ATB Care Education Scholarship program from ATB social media and announcements at school.

He felt motivated to take part in this program to ease the burden on his parents.

But more than that, Puri also wants his success be able to encourage his friends to excel.

"If I succeed, surely they will also be motivated to achieve the same thing as me," she said.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program titled ATB Cares for Education has become an annual ATB routine program.

Company has distributed Odd semester scholarships at the beginning of 2019 and again poured out scholarships in this even semester.

There will be 24 high school / vocational students who will receive scholarship of IDR 2.5 million per semeter, and 10 outstanding students who will get scholarship of IDR 4 million / semester.

This activity, which has been held since 2011, has been awarded by Batam City Government in 2018 as company that cares about education.

"The total scholarships disbursed reached IDR 100 million, and will be submitted to final Cerdas Cermat ATB at Grand Mall Batam, October 27, 2019," said Maria. (*)

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