{"id":54,"date":"2017-09-05T22:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T22:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:38:19","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION-<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>2026 Paul Lauzier Scholarship selections are complete!&nbsp; Alumni recipients have been notified via email with follow-up instructions.&nbsp; Graduating seniors will be announced at each school district&#8217;s award\/graduation ceremony at the end of the school year.&nbsp; 256 scholarships totaling $940,000.00 were awarded this year.&nbsp; <a title=\"2025 Scholarship Recipient List\" href=\"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/2020-scholarship-recipients\/\">Click here for the list of 2026 recipients<\/a>.&nbsp; Thank you to everyone who applied!<\/p>\n<p>With the emergence of AI, we feel it\u2019s appropriate to state our position moving forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to those who wrote their own content in the application, as we\u2019ve shared how impactful your authentic thoughts, feelings and perspectives are to us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We want to know the REAL YOU.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the reason why we do this.&nbsp; Your hearts and minds are powerful, and you\u2019re perfectly capable of expressing what\u2019s inside.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AI absolutely serves a purpose.&nbsp; We have no issue with students using the tools that technology offers for improving the quality of an application\u2019s spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With that said, we intend to keep the human element of our process intact.&nbsp; We have no interest in reading applications created by robots.&nbsp; If you\u2019re willing to take the time to craft your own content, we look forward to seeing your application in the future.&nbsp; The next deadline is Monday, March 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>CHARITABLE FOUNDATION-<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The 2026 charitable grant application closed on April 30.&nbsp; Selections will be announced by the middle of June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grants are available to nonprofit organizations for community development, youth programs, public health and safety, education, and agriculture.&nbsp; Requests for program support, capital projects, and equipment are considered.<\/p>\n<p>$910,000.00 was awarded to the <a title=\"2023 Charitable Recipient List\" href=\"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/charitable\/charitable-recipient-list\/\">2025 Paul Lauzier Charitable Grant recipients.<\/a>&nbsp; Visit the <a title=\"Charitable Foundation\" href=\"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/charitable\/\">Charitable Foundation<\/a> page for more information.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1637-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1637-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lauzier.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1637-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t let anything poison your individuality.&#8221; Rodney Mullen  <br>Moses Lake Skate Park Grant, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION- 2026 Paul Lauzier Scholarship selections are complete!&nbsp; Alumni recipients have been notified via email with follow-up instructions.&nbsp; Graduating seniors will be announced at each school district&#8217;s award\/graduation ceremony at the end of the school year.&nbsp; 256 scholarships totaling $940,000.00 were awarded this year.&nbsp; Click here for the list of 2026 recipients.&nbsp; Thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-54","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauzier.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}