2023-2024 Scholarship Award Winner
It is with great pleasure to announce the 2023-2024 Central New York Chapter Scholarship award recipient as Courtney Paciello. Courtney is currently a student attending SUNY Empire State University for Environmental Science with a concentration in Conservation. She has a strong passion for the outdoors and spends her summers camping with her husband & dog. We were able to announce and present her with the award back in June at our 2023-2024 season wrap up and awards dinner. In her application titled “Our Safe Earth” Courtney captures the idea that safety is not just for the workplace, but instead it is engrained in everything we do as humans. Broadening this Idea Courtney goes onto resonate the notion that safety for the planet should be no different.
“Our Earth is unbiased. It accepts all life forms, and provides nourishment and a home
for everyone who seeks such. It’s developed a paradoxical balance of sensitive, yet resilient
ecosystems, and we compromise it. If we take advantage of this, we jeopardize the safety of what keeps us protected, and in turn, the human race and many other species experience a decline in security.” (“Our Safe Earth”)
CNYASSP is honored to award our 2023-2024 annual scholarship to Courtney as she
continues on her journey and education to promote occupational safety. This scholarship is made possible by contributions from our chapter members, proceeds from our monthly chapter meeting raffles and sponsor/member donations to our annual scholarship fund! As a reminder, our chapter offers an annual student scholarship to those majoring in a safety or safety related field.
2021-2022 Scholarship Award Winner
CNY ASSP is happy to announce the winner of the 2022 CNY ASSP Scholarship, Lexi Chipules. While the announcement was made back in June, we were only recently able to meet up with Lexi and present her with her scholarship. Which was matched by Region VIII of ASSP!
Lexi was a student at SUNY ESF completing a dual major in Construction Management and Sustainable Energy Management with a minor in Economics.
Lexi developed her safety skills during a recent internship with Ramboll as a Construction Manager intern. During the internship her responsibilities include investigating site conditions, creating site safety plans, monitoring PPE usage, conducting safety presentations. as well as monitoring and recording safety conditions.
She is also a student leader within her school and served two terms as the ESF Undergraduate Student Association as President. Her willingness to volunteer as a student leader speaks to a strong character that is willing to take on the additional responsibilities of being a leader and taking initiative.
Lexi’s introduction to safety started at a young age as she is able remembered playing with her father’s safety PPE like hard hats and safety glasses. As she grew the importance of safety was instilled in her she decided to focus her education on a combination of construction and safety.
For these reasons, CNY ASSP is honored to award our 2021-2022 annual scholarship to Lexi as well as have her award be matched by the Region VIII of ASSP; to continue her journey and education to promote occupational safety.
This scholarship is made possible by contributions from our chapter members, proceeds from our monthly chapter meeting raffles and Starr Safety’s donation to our annual scholarship fund! As a reminder, our chapter offers an annual student scholarship to those majoring in a safety or safety related field.