PACU Announces 2026 General Scholarship Recipients
Please join PACU in congratulating our 2026 Piedmont Advantage Credit Union General Scholarship recipients!
At Piedmont Advantage Credit Union, we recognize and reward our members’ academic achievement and advancement.
PACU General Scholarships, administered through the Carolinas Credit Union Foundation, are for high school seniors and beyond who are ready to take the next step in continuing their education.
PACU awards six to eight $1,000 scholarships to local students pursuing higher education each year.
We could not be more thrilled to announce this year’s PACU scholarship recipients, beginning the journey to achieving their dreams:
Victoria Robinson
- Winston-Salem, N.C.
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Ashley Makell
- Charlotte, N.C.
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Austin Imes, Jr.
- Mocksville, N.C.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jacob Heim
- Charlotte, N.C.
- North Carolina State University
Kyera Combs
- Mooresville, N.C.
- Georgia Southern University
Lucas Chalco
- Eden, N.C.
- Johnson and Wales University
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Headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and founded in 1949 within the aviation industry, Piedmont Advantage Credit Union (PACU) serves member-owners, who reside, work, worship, attend school or operate a business in one of the six counties it serves in North Carolina or who are employed by one of its many employer companies. These six counties are Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Mecklenburg and Rockingham.