FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TOP MANHATTAN COLLEGE STUDENTS WIN SCHOLARSHIPS FROM PRESTIGIOUS ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Yonkers, New York, residents Daniel Ramos ’05 and Christopher Andrade ’05 have been awarded scholarships from the Association of Old Crows (AOC), a non-profit professional group that promotes careers in the defense industry.

Daniel, a senior computer engineering major, won the top prize – the Edwin A. Drogin Scholarship Award for $2,000. Christopher, a senior electrical engineering major, received a scholarship award for $1,500. This marks the fifteenth consecutive year Manhattan College engineering students have won scholarships in this academic competition, which is open to all computer or electrical engineering students who are residents of New York City, Westchester, Nassau or Suffolk counties.

A banquet to honor winners will take place on November 12, 2004 in Woodbury, New York. Dating back to 1989, Manhattan College engineering students have won more than $32,000 in scholarships from AOC in competition with some of the finest engineering schools in the metro area.

AOC is an international organization with more than 14,000 members and 115 corporate participants who are focused on the science and practice of electronic warfare and related disciplines.

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