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Two East Aurora School District 131 middle-schoolers were recently selected for a national pre-college scholarship that provides them with academic and college advising and financial support.

Yahir Ferreira, a student at Fred Rogers Magnet Academy, and Taleen Kandakji, a student at Cowherd Middle School, were named Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholars among applicants from across the country.

The scholarship is a selective, five-year pre-college program for “exceptionally promising” seventh-graders with financial need, according to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s website . The organization also awards scholarships to high school and community college students.

As part of the program, students receive academic and college advising, along with

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