The American Association of State Troopers Scholarship Foundation will award more than 170 college scholarships totaling nearly $115,000 this school year in memory of slain Virginia Tech sophomore Heidi Childs.
Childs, who would have turned 19 today was found dead in August along with her boyfriend, sophomore David Metzler, in a forest area in northern Montgomery County.
Childs’ father, Sgt. Donald Childs, is a member of the AAST. Last July, Childs had applied for a scholarship toward her pre-med major through the AAST’s scholarship foundation.
Because Childs had been approved to receive the money before August, the AAST awarded the $500 scholarship to her family to help offset costs associated with her death.
AAST executive director Ken Howes said that the board of directors felt it would be “appropriate considering what had happened” to posthumously award the scholarship money to Childs’ family.
“It was very sad to see her name on the check,” Howes said.
All scholarships awarded by the Association’s scholarship foundation this school year will be given in Childs’ memory. Recipients of these scholarships are children of members of the AAST.
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