{"id":3568,"date":"2020-10-29T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2021-01-04T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:27:45","slug":"ntc-foundation-scholarship-helps-leister-pursue-career-in-nursing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/29\/ntc-foundation-scholarship-helps-leister-pursue-career-in-nursing\/","title":{"rendered":"NTC Foundation Scholarship Helps Leister Pursue Career in Nursing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3569 size-full img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"966\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007-226x146.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007-657x423.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/10\/21NTC_Happy_Remcy_0007-560x360.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>Northwest Technical College&rsquo;s Happiness Leister was born and raised in Kenya. Moving to Bemidji, Minnesota in 2017, she is pursing a career in nursing with the help of the Mississippi Headwaters Blood Bank Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Headwaters Blood Bank Scholarship is an $800 scholarship awarded to students who pursue an education in a medical field related to hematology or phlebotomy through a trade\/tech school. After working as a certified nursing assistant for a year, Leister decided to further her career in heath care.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have a passion for helping others and that&rsquo;s the main reason I chose nursing,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The scholarship will relieve me the financial burden off me and grant me more more time for reading as nursing school can be stressful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Leister said the support she has received from Tyler Peterson, student success center director, has also helped her work towards her dreams.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tyler Peterson has been of great help towards my success ever since I joined NTC, he is always ready to help whenever I have questions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Technical College will host a 24-hour &ldquo;Make your Mark&rdquo; scholarship fundraiser on Nov. 10 in conjunction with its second annual day of giving.<\/p>\n<p>The day will provide an opportunity for alumni, students, parents, friends, staff, faculty and community members to give back to NTC with the goal of raising $25,000 in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Donors can make a gift to NTC by texting &ldquo;NTC&rdquo; to 50155 or by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.qgiv.com\/for\/ndog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/secure.qgiv.com\/for\/ndog\/<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Contact<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashley Johnson, executive director of the NTC Foundation; (218) 759-2057, ashley.johnson@ntcmn.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Links<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/career-paths\/health-care\/nursing\/\">Nursing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"smaller\" style=\"text-align: right;\">2020-N-022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwest Technical College\u2019s Happiness Leister was born and raised in Kenya. Moving to Bemidji, Minnesota in 2017, she is pursing a career in nursing with the help of the Mississippi Headwaters Blood Bank Scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":3569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-people","category-top-story","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}