RIGO CHACON REPORTING SCHOLARSHIP up to $2,000 Multiple Emmy® award-winning television reporter Rigo Chacon and his wife, Lucy, offer a scholarship to an outstanding student who aspires to the field of television reporting. Now retired, Chacon worked at ABC7 for 29 years as a general assignment reporter and opened the first Santa Clara County bureau of a San Francisco-based TV station. The Chacons also established the Abarzos and Books High School Scholarship Program. Among his many honors, Rigo is a member of the Academy’s prestigious Silver Circle 1997.

For your convenience, we have included a scholarship application on this web page. It is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The Adobe Acrobat reader is required to download and print the application, so if you don't have it, click on the Adobe graphic link and it will take you to the Adobe website where you can download the FREE reader.

The Applications deadline is Friday, May 21, 2010. Scholarships will be presented at the Gold & Silver Circle Induction Luncheon on October 23, 2010.

PREVIOUS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS:
2009: N'JERI EATON, University of California, Berkeley
2008: BRITTNEY JOHNSON, University of California, Berkeley
2007: BRIAN POLLACK, University of California, Berkeley
2006: ALANA DONG, Stanford University
2005: LING LIU, University of California, Berkeley