{"id":9968,"date":"2021-08-13T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2021-08-13T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:38:19","slug":"third-winners-of-vaxmillions-lottery-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2021\/08\/13\/state\/third-winners-of-vaxmillions-lottery-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Winners of VaxMillions Lottery Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-vaxmillions-covid-lottery-ma.jpg\" alt=\"[logo] Mass VaxMillions\" class=\"wp-image-9696\" width=\"299\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-vaxmillions-covid-lottery-ma.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-vaxmillions-covid-lottery-ma-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-vaxmillions-covid-lottery-ma-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- The winners for the third of five drawings for the Massachusetts VaxMillions Giveaway has been announced. The winner of this week\u2019s $1 million prize is<strong> Leo Costinos of Attleboro<\/strong>. Leo is a controller at a financial firm. He got vaccinated to protect himself, his family and his community. Leo plans to use his winnings to support his children\u2019s college plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of this week\u2019s $300,000 college scholarship is <strong>Lilla Eliet of Reading<\/strong>. Lilla is entering the 8th grade at Coolidge Middle School in Reading this fall where she is a member of the Coolidge Science Olympiad team. Lilla is already thinking about where she might attend college and is interested in science and technology. She hopes to have a career in the field of medicine. Lilla received the vaccine as soon as she was eligible in order to protect herself and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Fully vaccinated residents ages 18 and older are eligible to enter to win one of five, $1 million cash prizes. Residents between 12-17 years of age who are fully vaccinated may enter for the chance to win one of five $300,000 scholarship grants.   Note: Two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of J&amp;J must be completed by the date below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Week VaxMillions Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$1 million prize:  Darrell Washington of Weymouth.<\/li><li>$300,000 college scholarship: Daniela Maldonado of Chelsea.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second Week VaxMillions Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$1 million prize: Donna McNulty of Billerica.<\/li><li>$300,000 college scholarship: Dylan Barron of Norwood.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, over 2.5 million people have signed up for the VaxMillions Giveaway, including 2.3 million residents 18 and older, and over 163,000 residents ages 12-17. Since the program was announced on June 15, over 270,000 residents have gotten a first dose of the vaccine, and over 398,000 residents have become fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Massachusetts remains a national leader in vaccinations with over 4.4 million residents fully vaccinated and over 5 million residents with at least one dose (including J&amp;J).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next VaxMillions drawing will be drawn on Monday, August 16 and announced on Thursday, August 19th, 2021, (with winners announced on the 19th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VaxMillions Email Fraud Warning<\/strong>: Residents are reminded that official prize notification emails related to the VaxMillions Giveaway will come from a Massachusetts Department of Public Health email address ending in \u201c@mass.gov.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the <strong>Massachusetts VaxMillions Giveaway<\/strong>, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/VaxMillionsGiveaway.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"VaxMillionsGiveaway.com\">VaxMillionsGiveaway.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; The winners for the third of five drawings for the Massachusetts VaxMillions Giveaway has been announced. The winner of this week\u2019s $1 million prize is Leo Costinos of Attleboro. Leo is a controller at a financial firm. He got vaccinated to protect himself, his family and his community. Leo plans to use his winnings&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2021\/08\/13\/state\/third-winners-of-vaxmillions-lottery-announced\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4741],"tags":[4530,4558,4555,4616,4748,4749,40,4553,4552,4551],"class_list":["post-9968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-covid","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-vaccinations","tag-leo-costinos","tag-lilla-eliet","tag-mass","tag-massachusetts-vaccine-lottery","tag-vaccine-lottery","tag-vaxmillions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9969,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}