Jaime Montes, Canutillo High School senior, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Notre Dame in the fall. He will begin his college career this summer as a participant in the university’s Balfour-Hesburgh Scholars Program (BHSP), at South Bend, Indiana.

BHSP is an academic enrichment experience designed to help incoming first-year students make a successful transition from high school to college. The highlight of the program is a rigorous, four-week summer curriculum that introduces incoming freshmen to the challenges of university life.

Montes received over $45,000 in scholarship and grants, which are renewable each year, from the University of Notre Dame. “I’m really excited about attending Norte Dame. It is ranked among the top colleges in the country; it will be a good school to continue my studies in history and to pursue a degree in law,” Montes said.

Montes has attended Canutillo ISD schools since kindergarten at Bill Childress Elementary School. “I really had some good teachers throughout my school years,” Montes said, “and I remember that it was in third grade when I was placed in the GT (Gifted and Talented) program that I decided I wanted to do well in school.”

At Canutillo High School, Montes earned a 98.4 grade point average and was ranked third in his class going into his final semester of high school. This school year, he was a platoon commander in the NJROTC program, a mentor in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and vice president of the CHS National Honor Society. Montes also competed in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Business Law event where he won first in the regional contest and fifth in the state finals.

Montes will be among the approximately 325 seniors who will participate in the CHS commencement exercise scheduled for 8 p.m., Friday, June 6, at Julius and Irene Lowenberg Eagles Stadium (6675 South Desert Boulevard).

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