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2025 Semifinalists

1,336 high school seniors have been selected from 105,000+ submitted applications from across the country to advance to the next stage of our selection process!

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The 2025 Semifinalists

1,336 high school seniors have been selected from 105,000+ submitted applications from across the country to advance to the next stage of our selection process!

August 2024 Accolades

Gabriel Nagel (2023) was selected as the Chairperson of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Youth Advisory Council, making him the youngest Chairperson of an official U.S. federal advisory council. 

August 2024 Connections

Coke Scholars connected all over the world last month, including in France, Italy, Germany, and South Africa.

July 2024 Accolades

2023 Scholars Reya Singh and Mandy Zhang created New Roots Financial, an organization dedicated to helping immigrants and refugees become financially literate, after they connected at the 2023 Coca-Cola Scholars Leadership Development Institute.

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September 2016 Accolades

Iman Cooper (2011) and a team of students from Earlham College were awarded the 2016 Holt Prize! The group created Magic Bus, an offline app which aims to increase public transportation efficiency in developing countries, and was awarded $1 million in seed funding to launch its operations in Kenya and the rest of Africa.

September 2016 Connections

Fabiani Duarte (2006) challenged Mark to a bow tying contest! 75 Coca-Cola Scholars, alumni, and spouses came together in Austin for the 2016 Coca-Cola Scholars Service Summit, and 50 Coke Scholars and friends joined The Coca-Cola Company at Citi Field in NYC for the Mets game on September 19.

Coke Scholar Dahkota Kicking Bear Brown

August 2016 Accolades

Dahkota Kicking Bear Brown (2016) became the youngest person to be appointed to a White House administrative post by a president, and Robert Accordino (1999) was appointed by the White House to the class of 2016-2017 White House Fellows.

August 2016 Connections

Alumni volunteers were trained how to support young Scholars as they transition to college, and Nola Weinstein (2001) hosted a #CokeScholarsPro professional networking event at Twitter in New York City.