05/07/2025
2025 Jim Rollo State Farm BOCES Scholarships
In 2023, we started our annual BOCES Scholarships. Now in our third year, we have a simple mission and process. We make a donation to BOCES to fund the scholarships, which are specifically for auto technology and building trade related careers. Those two careers align with the needs of our policyholders in our home and auto insurance businesses. The scholarship recipients are chosen by BOCES, and BOCES notifies us who the recipients are. Our mission is to support and encourage the pursuit of professional careers for young people in our local area, careers which can be initiated during high school and continued full time after graduation. There are many different paths available for a young person to follow to achieve a rewarding and prosperous life. This year, we are doing something a little different to showcase the BOCES program and the scholarship recipients. We went to the BOCES campus with our video production team and interviewed the scholarship recipients. We toured part of the campus and listened to the students as they shared their experiences at BOCES and their aspirations for the future. The interviews are in editing and will be published in the next few weeks. When you meet the students, you will find they are smart, hard working young people with hopes and dreams to build a future for themselves. Thanks to their dedicated staff at BOCES who are making a difference every day.
