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Award Winners 2016-17
Sixty-five Texas schoolchildren were approved for a Matching Scholarship of tuition units worth up to $1,000 in the program's 2016-17 award cycle. Five of the top-ranking applicants were also recognized with an additional scholarship – the Promise Scholarship, which is a one-time grant of tuition units worth $2,000 at today's prices.
Matching Scholarship recipients with a family income of $75,000 or less were awarded a two-to-one match for up to $500 of participant tuition unit purchases during the award cycle. All other scholarship recipients were awarded a one-to-one match for up to $500.
Career Choices
The scholarship application asks students to write about careers that interest them. While the 2016-17 scholarship recipients described a wide variety of future professions – from astronomer to oceanographer – healthcare careers were the most common choices, identified by 24 students (19 girls, five boys) followed closely by arts, entertainment and media occupations, identified by 13 students (five girls, eight boys).
Featured Essays
- Adriana – future dermatologist
- Alex – future deep sea biologist
- Anna – future marine biologist
- Anna – future orthodontist
- Anthony – future photojournalist
- Arianne – future accountant
- Brayden – future actor
- Carla – future disaster medical specialist
- Colby – future software designer
- Donovan – future NBA player
- Earl – future software engineer
- Eliza – future veterinarian
- Emily – future educational diagnostician
- Ethan – future aerospace engineer
- Gavin – future veterinarian
- Hayden – future dermatologist
- Izabella – future actress
- Jaclyn – future actress
- James – future artist
- Jared – future business owner
- Joshua – future spanish teacher
- Josie – future midwife
- Kaitlyn – future marine biologist
- Katelyn – future OBGYN
- Kendyl – future veterinarian
- Lily – future astronomer
- Lorna – future dentist
- Makenzie – future veterinarian
- Marina – future medical examiner
- Marko – future paramedic
- Matthias – future computer forensic hacking investigator
- Megan – future structural engineer
- Mikaiel – future chief sustainability officer
- Morgan – future nurse practitioner
- Nathan – future NFL sports broadcaster
- Noah – future fisheries biologist
- Rachel – future NASA meteorologist
- Reina – future neurosurgeon
- Sarah – future wildlife veterinarian
- Simon – future oceanographer
- Steven Eric – future computer engineer
- Tristan – future forensic scientist
- Victor – future allergist or pulmonologist
- Will – future NFL player
- Yanet – future communications major
- Zaiden – future artist
- Zarina – future art teacher
- Zoe – future foreign service officer