PEP star vows to shine at Wolmer’s

WITH the support of an academic award behind her, Primary Exit Profile (PEP) scholar Arianna Smith has vowed to leave a lasting mark at Wolmer’s High School for Girls after being named among 46 recipients of the 2026 Guardian Group Scholarship and Grant.

“I’m really happy and proud of myself, and I feel like this is just another step towards becoming a chemist, because I really want to be one. So I hope — well, I know — I will do extremely well at Wolmer’s because I don’t want to go and not be a good student,” Arianna said at Guardian Group’s annual awards ceremony, hosted at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Monday.

Over the past 20 years Guardian Group has awarded more than $70 million to assist 219 top-performing sixth graders entering high school. This year’s scholarships amount to just over $5 million.