UTS Scholarship Recipients

UTS Scholarship Awardees

2021

July 18, 2021- The Ukrainian Technological Society of Pittsburgh announces the following recipients of its 49th Scholarship Program. Including this year’s 25 awards, the Society has made 537 awards to 320 different students residing in the Pittsburgh-tristate area, totaling $257,200. Thanks to exceptional financial support, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the Ukrainian Community, the Society was able to award $14,000 in scholarships this year. The Ukrainian Community is invited to attend the Scholarship Awards Social on Sunday, August 1, 2021, beginning at 3:00 PM, in the Parish Hall of Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox G. C. Church, 220 Mansfield Boulevard, Carnegie, PA 15106. Matushka Laryssa Charest will be the guest speaker.
The Society has IRC 501(c)(3) status, and donations to the UTS Scholarship Fund are accepted year around.

Natali Lutsiv (Carnegie)- The Maria Hulai Lion Foundation Scholarship ($1,000)

Maria Smereka (Carnegie)- George A. Nestor Memorial Scholarship ($1,000)

Stephanie Manasterski (Moon Township)- Michael Korchynsky Memorial Scholarship ($1,000)

Pani Yimost’ Inna Hohosha (Pittsburgh)- Chester and Olga Manasterski Memorial Scholarship ($500)

Nicholas Spak (Scott Township)- Ukrainian Selfreliance of W. Pa. Federal Credit Union Scholarship ($500)

Anne Victoria Nasevich (Pittsburgh)- Michael and Anna Komichak Memorial Scholarship ($500)

Nicholas Hladio (Bradford Woods)- Ukrainian Cultural Trust Choir of Western Pennsylvania Scholarship ($500)

Cyril Sheptak (Butler)- Ukrainian Technological Society Founders’ Scholarship ($500)

Receiving Michael and Olga Lesewych Scholarships of $500 each were:

Sofiya Bidochko (Export)
Yulia Davyda (Scott Township)
Anastasiia Rudenko (Pittsburgh)
Victoria Swindle (Green Tree)

Receiving Ukrainian Technological Society Scholarships of $500 each were:

Maria Charron (Carnegie)
Andrianna Cycak (Moon Township)
Stanislav Davyda (Scott Township)
Amelia Freed (Baden)
Monika Karpa (Carnegie)
Kateryna Kocelko (Pittsburgh)
Yuriy Korenovskyi (Carnegie)
Maranda Kuzemka (Scott Township)
Matthew Manasterski (Moon Township)
John Nasevich (Pittsburgh)
Petro Pavlyshyn (Carnegie)
Anna Swindle (Green Tree)
Marissa Yourstowsky (Canfield, OH)

Back Row L to R- Maria Smereka, Stanislav Davyda, Nicholas Spak, Kateryna Kocelko, Cyril Sheptak, Yulia Davyda, Anna Swindle, Victoria Swindle
Front Row L to R- Monika Karpa, Amelia Freed, Matthew Manasterski, Stephanie Manasterski, Petro Pavlyshyn, Maria Charron, Maranda Kuzemka

2020

July 27, 2020 – The Ukrainian Technological Society of Pittsburgh, PA announces the following recipients of its 48th Scholarship Program. Including this year’s 27 awards, the Society has made 512 awards to 312 different students residing in the Pittsburgh- tristate area, totaling $243,200. The Society has IRC 501(c )(3) status, and donations to the UTS Scholarship Fund are accepted throughout the year.

Sofiya Bidochko (Export)- The Maria Hulai Lion Foundation Scholarship ($1,000)

Cyril Sheptak (Butler) – Ukrainian Selfreliance of W. Pa. FCU Members’ Funded Scholarship ($1,000)

Nicholas Hladio (Bradford Woods)- Michael and Anna Komichak Memorial Scholarship ($500)

Pani Yimost’ Inna Hohosha (Pittsburgh)- Chester and Olga Manasterski Memorial Scholarship ($500)

Sophia Charron (Carnegie)- Ukrainian Cultural Trust Choir of Western Pennsylvania Scholarship ($500)

Yuriy Korenovskyi (Carnegie)- Ukrainian Selreliance of W. Pa. Federal Credit Union Scholarship ($500)

Victoria Swindle (Greentree)- Ukrainian Technological Society Founders’ Scholarship ($500)

Receiving $500 Ukrainian Technological Society Scholarships were:

Maria Charron (Carnegie)
Alexander Konecky (Greentree)
Yaryna Korenovska (Carnegie)
Petro Pavlyshyn (Carnegie)
Iryna Luchynyn (Carnegie)
Anna Swindle (Greentree)

Receiving $250 Ukrainian Technological Society Scholarships were:

Andrew Buckholt (South Park)
Andrianna Cycak (Moon Township)
Kateryna Czuczman (Pittsburgh)
Stanislav Davyda (Scott Township)
Alexander Hladio (Bradford Woods)
Roman Hladio (Bradford Woods)
Katarzyna Goebel (Sewickley)
Magdalene Goebel (Sewickley)
Monika Karpa (Carnegie)
Maranda Kuzemka (Scott Township)
Irina Lutsiv (Carnegie)
John Nasevich (Pittsburgh)
Dmytri Rakovan (Baden)
Marissa Yourstowsky (Canfield, OH)

2019

Thanks to the financial support of the Ukrainian Community, the Society was able to award sixteen (16) scholarships, totaling $10,000 this year. There were four (4) scholarships of $1,000 each, and twelve (12) of $500 each. The Ukrainian Community is invited to attend the Scholarship Awards Social on Sunday, July 28, 2019 beginning at 3:00 PM in the auditorium of the Frick Fine Arts Building, on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA. Please come to meet and to encourage these young Ukrainian students, the future leaders of our Ukrainian Community. Light refreshments will be served in the atrium following the scholarship presentations, a time to socialize with the students.

The scholarship recipients are:

Maria Smereka
Yaryna Korenovska
Michael Kochis
Nikolai Goebel
Marissa Yourstowsky
Monika Karpa
Katarzyna Goebel
Alexander Konecky
John Nasevich
Andrianna Cycak
Kateryna Czuczman
Stanislav Davyda
Irina Lutsiv
Marika Olijar
Dmytri Rakovan
Cyril Sheptak

This is the 47th year of the UTS Scholarship Program. With this year’s awards, the Society has awarded 485 scholarships to 298 different students, totaling $232,200. The Society thanks the Ukrainian Community for its continued support.

2018

On Sunday, August 5, 2018 the UTS awarded 14 students scholarships at a ceremony at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Oakland.

Front Row (left to right): Michael Yourstowsky, Kateryna Kocelko, Andrianna Cycak, Artem Dobrochynsky, Monika Karpa. Back Row (left to right): Nicholas Hladio, Kateryna Czuczman, Nicholas Spak, Ostap Lutsiv, Stanislav Davyda. Not pictured: Michael Kochis, Dmytri Rakovan, Katarzyna Goebel, Yaryna Korenovska