Student Earns $20K KFC Scholarship From Twitter Photo

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The sixth annual KFC Colonel’s Scholars Program has awarded a grand prize winner a $20,000 scholarship based on a single photo shared via Twitter.

Daniel Galuppo from Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, Calif., is this year’s scholarship recipient. He was chosen from high school seniors across the country who applied by tweeting a single image and including the hashtag #KFCScholar.

Galuppo submitted an image from a recent volunteer trip to Vietnam, where he photographed orphans. Galuppo, originally from Lithuania, has no photos of himself before his adoption and move to the U.S., and has therefore made it his mission to visit orphanages so he can give the children pictures of themselves as keepsakes. Read more.

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