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»The Burger King Scholars Program awarded 30 students in Hawaii with $1,000 scholarships.
Nearly 2,000 scholarships went to high school graduates in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, totaling approximately $2.2 million.
Created in memory of Burger King co-founder James W. McLamore, the scholars program has awarded 17,064 scholarships since 2000.
» Jackson Button, 14, of Waialua, who founded Dream of a Better World, is one of 11 students across the country named a 2012 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winner.
Dream of a Better World is a nonprofit group that has raised more than $105,000 to build a permanent home for 57 children living with HIV at an orphanage in Uganda.