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During the Kazickas Family trip to Vilnius in June, they had an opportunity to meet ASSIST new students who will be embarking on their new adventure at the end of summer. President Valdas Adamkus with his wife Alma Adamkiene, as well as US Ambassador to Lithuania Anne Hall congratulated the students, ASSIST alumni and students' families.

This month 23 most active and academically strong Kaunas University of Technology students were presented scholarships during the award ceremony at the University "Santaka" Valley. Six of them received the Kazickas Family Foundation's scholarships.

It's been six years since the world lost beloved Alexandra Kazickas on her 91st birthday, June 17th, 2011. While many knew her as a devoted wife, loving mother and grandmother, joyful, spirited, devout, and a great friend, very few knew her as a mischievous little teenager dreaming big of becoming ballerina. Let's remember Alexandra Kazickas today as a student, growing up in Panevezys, Lithuania in her own words from Panevezys Girls School book "Memories" Part II:

What an amazing video from the KFF June 10th Basketball Power event Vilnius, Lithuania!

Thank you, Timuras Augucevicius, for it!

Last Saturday US Ambassador to Lithuania Anne Hall congratulated the participants at the "Basketball Power" end of season event by the White Bridge in Vilnius.

About the June 11th KFF  "Basketball Power" end of season event in Lithuanian daily newspaper "Lietuvos rytas":

KFF program "Basketball Power" finished its third season in a great mood. On Saturday, June 10th, at the White Bridge in Vilnius, more than 300 children and youth from around Lithuania, met with Lithuanian army and US cadets, Lithuanian Police, DevBridge group, BC Somewhere Seen, Caritas, wheel chair Basketball club “Draugystė”.

St. Casimir Church (Didžioji 34, Vilnius) June 11, 2017, 12 p.m.

Holy Mass is Celebrated by Father Algirdas Toliatas

The Organ is played by Leopoldas Digrys, Renata Marcinkutė Lesieur

The Singing is by the Jesuit School Youth Choir KRANTAS (Director and Conductor Leonidas Abaris)

Suzanna Larkin, an ExCEL Abroad (Exchanges for Culture, Education, and Leadership) program's 2016-2017 student, just returned home after spending a school year in Lithuania. Before the departure, Suzanna shared her gratitude and experience gained in Lithuania in her letter to the Kazickas Family Foundation which sponsors the program:

The Kazickas Family Foundation's Matching Grant (up to $1,000) program was introduced in 2015 with a goal to motivate Lithuanian heritage schools in the US to organize fund-raising events in order to support their school work. It as a part of the Alexandra Kazickas Grant Program through which KFF has been supporting Lithuanian Heritage Schools in the US since 2012.