CHICAGO – A pair of Chicago high school students are the latest scholarships winners from a fund endowed by Circuits Assembly and Technology Forecasters.

Salvador Montoya and Israel Rodriguez, both students at Curie Metropolitan High School, received $500 each in scholarship funds from an IPC fund that supports secondary electronics programs.

The Scholarship Fund also donated $1,000 to the school for additional educational materials and equipment for Curie’s electronics program.

Criteria for the award included a 3.0 GPA in electronics, a 90% attendance record and a history of achievement in electronics at the school. The students also submitted written essays that described their plans for higher education and career goals.

In 2003, Circuits Assembly magazine and Technology Forecasters financed the $10,000 fund through a portion of entry fees from the Service Excellence Awards program. Each year, IPC donates up to $2,500 to the school.

Kim Sterling, IPC vice president of marketing and communications, said in a statement that Curie was chosen as the sole beneficiary “because of the school’s three-year industrial electronics course that gives students work-oriented, hands-on experience using the latest advancements in business and technology.”