Five Star Senior Living Sponsors MIT AgeLab’s 2021 OMEGA Scholarship Program Awarding $5,000 Scholarships to Five Students for Work with Older Adults
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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The 2021 OMEGA scholarship winners are:
Key Points:
- The 2021 OMEGA scholarship winners are:
Sabine Arndt, Aliso Niguel High School, Aliso Viejo, California, now a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. - Her Technology Tutors program paired students with older adults to teach technology and promote multigenerational relationship-building.
- The students recognized through the OMEGA program model the empathy and respect necessary to advance the quality of life for older adults.
- Five Star Senior Living has sponsored the MIT AgeLabs OMEGA scholarship program since 2020.