The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Lamia Ahmed, a Bangladeshi girl who was born in the USA, has been awarded prestigious Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship this year in recognition of her outstanding academic success.

Because of being awarded the scholarship, she will be able to carry on her education for the rest of her academic life at free of cost.

Lamia has been living in Virginia with her parents, who came from Bangladesh, and all along doing excellent academic results.

In an interview with the Voice of America, Lamia said her parents are Bangladeshis though she was born in the USA.

A high school student, she now enters a new phase of her education life.

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation introduced this scholarship since 1999.