Scholarship recipient working to support his community
For senior Informatics student Jonathan Ortiz-Candelaria, "leave everything off the mat" is more than a saying. The words he hears every day at judo practice have become a mantra. As the president of the Judo Club at the University of Washington, he has embraced it as a mindset both on and off the mat.“Learn from your failures, learn from your losses, and keep going,” he said.Ortiz-Candelaria’s life has been defined by perseverance. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he moved to Washington in the wake of Hurricane Maria, the 2017 storm that was the strongest to hit the island in over a cent
