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Rock Island High School graduate earns GritGrant entrepreneurial award

Written by Olivia Allen | 08.29.23

Daivari Rogers, a Rock Island High School Class of 2023 graduate, was one of four people nationwide to receive the "McKenzie Foundation & Uncharted Learning 2023 GritGrant award," alongside $2,500 from the foundation. 

Any student enrolled in their high school's INCubatoredu entrepreneurial programs and/or the MobileMakersEdu coding programs can be nominated for the award. Rocky is the only high school with an INCubatoredu program to have multiple winners of the GritGrant award.

Rogers was nominated by his INCubatoredu class instructor, Trish Matson, and returned to Rocky on Monday, Aug. 28, to receive the award.