Established in 2019

Kayla's Hope Scholarship Fund

Applications for 2025 Are Open! click here to complete application.

Tri-City High School Scholarships

Providing annual scholarships to local graduating seniors with the intent to study Music, Literature, or Psychology. Scholarships will be awarded to students at St. Charles East, St. Charles North, Geneva, and Batavia for the 2025 Graduating Class.

Applications for 2025 are Open until January 24

Our Focus

MUSIC

Music is the heart of expression and emotion. It allows exploration of mental health via the senses. Music can help support you when words aren’t enough and give you the capacity to feel again. Kayla deeply loved playing the violin and shined bright while she performed. 

LITERATURE

Literature is a great place to find peace, imagination and knowledge. Reading and writing can help quiet your mind, provide an outlet to dream and be a source of learning. Kayla was an avid reader–often reading a few books a week. She loved to write and had dreams of becoming an editor. 

PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology is the study of the human mind and its functions affecting behavior. Kayla was diagnosed with severe depression and struggled to accept help. The more we understand the mind, the better we can understand treatment of mental illness.

Congratulations to our Scholarship Recipients

2024

University of Iowa:
Psychology
Elizabeth Hornung,
St Charles North

DePaul University:
Music Education
Ume Hashimoto-Jorgensen,
St Charles East 

2024

University of Illinois:
Psychology
Kennedy Metzler,
Batavia High School 

 

Virginia Tech:
Psychology
Ella Peterson,
Batavia High School

 

Waubonsee:
Psychology
Andrew Barret,
Geneva High School

2023

The University of Illinois: 
Violin Performance
Cate Winsor
Columbia College Chicago: 
Acoustics
Erik Sneed
Florida Southern College:
Musical Theater
Jonah Zimmerman
Western Illinois: 
Forensic Psychology
Paige Beller

2022

The University of Arizona: 
Psychology
Mia Kizman
New England Conservatory: 
Music
William Graham
University of Iowa: 
Psychology
Morgan Zyrek
University of Iowa: 
Psychology
Corey Breiten

2021

Iowa State University: 
Psychology
Megan DeMeyer
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign: 
English
Emily Quid
Northern Illinois University-DeKalb: 
Music Education
Ronald Gorka II
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 
Psychology
Lillian Neville

2020

Elgin Community College:
Music Education
Autumn Womack
Liberty University:
Youth Ministry
Sydney Varga
Illinois State University:
Psychology
Angela Dedicatoria