It was clear even when he was young that Josh Bent was going to be an architect. As a small boy growing up in Monroe, CT, he was a regular on job sites with his father’s general contracting company. He would pick up cut-offs, sweep sawdust, and learn first hand how houses were built. By the third grade, he was drawing floor plans and blueprints so skillfully that both his parents and teachers knew what his career path would be.​

When Josh died on May 29, 2007, his family decided to establish the Joshua D. Bent Memorial Scholarship Fund to provide students with the same drive for success and opportunity to fulfill their academic and professional dreams.

The annual golf tournament has raised over $400,000 and provided scholarship money for a number of young men and women to pursue a career in architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology.

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