Urban Assembly Maker Academy college counselor Ivy Anderson (left) and government teacher Shreya Sunderram (right) with their four honorees (center) and supporters, at the Shanker Scholarship Awards ceremony on June 7.

Scholarship winners gather before the start of the Shanker Scholarship Awards ceremony at UFT headquarters.

A second group of winners gets ready for the festivities outside Shanker Hall.

Anthony Harmon, director of staff for the UFT, schools scholarship winners on the seven “ups” of life: show up, stand up, speak up, lift each other up, listen up, never give up and know when it’s time to shut up.

Teacher Vincent Pham (lower left) celebrates with award-winners from International HS at Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, at the conclusion of the ceremony. 

Bronx Health Sciences HS students Brianna Wolford (left) and Richlove Nkansah were among 189 high school seniors who received $5,000 college scholarships.   

A Shanker Scholarship award-winner is congratulated by Vice President for Career and Technical Education Leo Gordon and Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds. 

A post-graduate scholarship winner accepts a plaque and congratulations from Geof Sorkin, executive director of the UFT Welfare Fund.