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The North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NET RMA) awarded $1,000 each to 11 high school seniors in NET RMA counties throughout Northeast Texas, including MaKayla Smith, a graduating senior at Kilgore High School. (Contributed Photo)
The North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NET RMA) awarded $1,000 each to 11 high school seniors in NET RMA counties throughout Northeast Texas, including MaKayla Smith, a graduating senior at Kilgore High School. (Contributed Photo)
The North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NET RMA) announced the recipients for its fourth annual Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarship.
The scholarship awarded $1,000 each to 11 high school seniors in NET RMA counties throughout Northeast Texas, including four students from Hallsville High School in Harrison County and two students from Gregg County.
The scholarship promotes safe driving practices among local high school students and the Northeast Texas community. Winners were selected based on essays along with academic and extracurricular achievements. Each application was evaluated by the Scholarship Committee made up of NET RMA board members on the Community Relations Committee.
The winners represent a highly accomplished group of students, with varied backgrounds and career interests. Fields of study for this year’s scholarship recipients include nursing, animal science, engineering, biomedical science, electric line worker certification and education.
“This year we had the largest number of scholarship submissions as well as the most competitive applicant pool in the history of the program. It made the committee’s job of selecting the winners extremely difficult,” said Andrea Williams-McCoy, NET RMA community relations chair. “These young adults are poised to become impactful leaders for our next generation. NET RMA is proud to play a part in helping them pursue these worthwhile endeavors.”
Below are the seniors who won Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarships:
Hallsville: Addyson Hearron, Bhavini Mali, Brady Roberts, Natalie Sullivan
Pine Tree: Amari Graves
Kilgore: MaKayla Smith
“For my safe driving scholarship application essay, I wrote about raising the driving age from 16 to 18 because I feel that the maturity at 16 isn’t to the level that it needs to be when you’re handling such a dangerous weapon,” said Hallsville High School senior Addyson Hearron. “Many teenagers my age are reckless and they will go out there and not realize the depth and severity that that vehicle can cause.”
Student essays included thoughts about driving laws, ideas on new technologies to limit cell phone use on the road, and personal stories on how distracted driving impacted their life. You can meet the winners and find their essays at netrma.org/scholarship.
Recipients will be able to use scholarship funds for tuition, fees, books, room, board or other expenses required by their college or university.
The NET RMA is an independent government agency created to accelerate the development of transportation projects in Northeast Texas. The agency’s missions is, in cooperation with its regional partners, to provide solutions to expedite infrastructure and mobility projects that will improve the quality of life, enhance the regional economy and assure efficient mobility in the North East Texas Region. The NET RMA is governed by a 21-member board of directors that represents each of the 14-member counties: Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Kaufman, Panola, Rusk, Smith, Titus, Upshur, Van Zandt and Wood.— Lucas Strough can be reached at lstrough@kilgorenewsherald.com.
— Lucas Strough can be reached at lstrough@kilgorenewsherald.com.
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