NIAGARA, Wis. — The Niagara Area Scholarship Foundation has announced a new scholarship for Niagara High School graduates.

The new Deane Systems Scholarship will be awarded to a qualified member of the Niagara High School Class of 2021. The scholarship has an annual award of $500 and has been established by Gary Ginther and family. Ginther is the founder of Deane Systems, which he established in his garage in 1974.

Deane Systems is based in Grayling, Mich., and is a key industrial manufacturing business that engineers and manufactures the equipment customers use to feed and drive a variety of specialized fasteners and related parts for American and Canadian automotive and related manufacturing businesses.

The annual $500 scholarship is intended to help aid a young person desiring to seek a skilled industrial manufacturing job. It is the goal of Ginther and family to support young people entering this field for employment.

To apply for the scholarship, the recipient must be NHS graduating senior; be attending a trade or vocational school, preferably related to the industrial manufacturing sector; and must submit a brief paragraph describing the recipient’s career plans.

There will be no class rank requirement.

The selection committee will be made up of the school counselor, principal and/or administrator and a technical education teacher. It will be administered by the Niagara Area Scholarship Foundation.