Ten Austin students will receive more than $5,700 in cash awards at the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s 30th annual ACCESS Scholarship Banquet, to be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 6 at the Hormel Historic Home.

Nearly 100 students applied for scholarships this year. Scholarship awards range from $200 to $1,500 and all finalists receive awards. This year’s eighth grade finalists include Siri Ansorge, Katie Shin, Ella Muzik, Riley Haugen, Ava Jovaag and Chloe Schmitt. High school senior finalists are Paige Raymond, Neftali Lopez, Katie Waller and Miranda Bergemann.

Finalists are selected by the Chamber’s Business Education Committee through a three-step process: written applications, interviews and speech presentations. Student family members, educators, committee members and business sponsors are invited to attend the banquet.

Master of Ceremonies will be Eric Connett, Heartman Insurance. Mary Bissen, a vocal/music instructor at Albert Lea Public Schools and a previous ACCESS scholarship winner, will deliver the keynote address.

Scholarship awards are made possible from the financial contributions of Chamber member sponsors.

They include:

•Accentra Credit Union

•Austin Daily Herald

•Austin Oral Surgery

•Bollingberg Chiropractic

•Bremer Bank

•CliftonLarsonAllen LLP

•Diamond Ridge Printing

•Family Eye Care Center

•Fawver Agency

•First Farmers and Merchants Bank

•Fuhrman Real Estate

•Games People Play

•Greg Meyer State Farm Insurance

•Heartman Insurance

•Hill, Larson, Walth & Benda, P.A.

•Home Federal Savings Bank

•Hormel Foods Corporation

•Hormel Historic Home

•Hoversten, Johnson, Beckmann & Hovey, LLP

•IBI Data

•Jim’s Market Place Foods

•The Joseph Company

•King Maintenance, Inc.

•Kiwanis Early Risers

•Mayer Funeral Home

•Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea & Austin

•Medicap Pharmacy

•Overby Orthodontics

•Palmer Bus Service

•Potach & Mitchell Dental Clinic

•Quality Pork Processors Inc.

•Sterling State Bank

•Sweet Reads

•US Bank

•Wealth Management Solutions

•Worlein Funeral Home