STAHLS’ announces the first quarter winners of the 2023 Stahl Family Scholarship. For the first time, the company invites schools to apply this year. Each quarter, one school and one business will receive the Dream Shop Package.

First quarter winners are Pine Bush High School and HRH Made.

School Winner: Pine Bush High School

Pine Bush High School is the first ever school winner of the scholarship, given to Nora Callahan from Pine Bush, New York. Callahan is a teacher and chair of the business department at Pine Bush High School.

The Business Department at Pine Bush currently offers courses in Entrepreneurship, Accounting, Business Applications, Marketing, Financial Planning, Banking, Economics, and Business Math.  Additionally, the art department offers courses in 3D Art & Design, Game Design, Animation, and Media Arts. According to STAHLS’, the institution is excited for this scholarship “to bridge the departments in a meaningful and productive way while offering students project-based learning opportunities.”

Callahan has focused her efforts on opening a spirit store in the school this year. The goal is to give students training in accounting, marketing, merchandising, design, and entrepreneurial skills.

“I have a fantastic group of young people that are excited to do this,” said Callahan in a statement shared by STAHLS’. “My vision is to integrate departmental efforts via our spirit store. We have worked to create more programs to help students that want to enter the workforce right away. This scholarship will make it possible for us to train and equip students to enter entrepreneurial or trade-based fields without taking out unnecessary and crippling student loans.”

Small Business Winner: HRH Made

The first quarter small business winner of the Stahl Family Scholarship is HRH Made. This initiative is a workforce training social enterprise of Hudson River Housing Inc., located in Poughkeepsie, New York.

HRH Made supports a rotation cohort of trainees who have experienced homelessness and barriers to employment such as housing instability, age, disability, health issues, and others. According to its website, the goal is to prepare people for future jobs, giving participants confidence, creative expression, skill-building, job readiness, and money management skills.

The initiative found itself in the T-shirt world in 2019, when it began offering onsite T-shirt printing at a local music festival. It since expanded to offer printing at local regattas, fundraising events, and other festivals. It currently offers digital print/cut, heat transfer vinyl, screen printing, and sublimation decorating.

In 2022, HRH Made launched a program called “Teen Shirt” to teach printing and entrepreneurial skills to youth in their community. The program told STAHLS’ it hopes to improve the quality and production time of their products with the scholarship. They also look forward to having better equipment to work with as well as onsite training.

STAHLS’ is currently accepting applications for the Q2 scholarship window through June 15th.