HSID students win national scholarships
Booker T. Washington High School students Frankie Mojekwu and Christopher Reed have been named National Achievement Scholarship winners. They are two of five Houston Independent School District students who will receive the $2,500 award.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation awards scholarships to African-American students who have excelled in academics and who have demonstrated the potential for academic success in college. Sixty of those students are from Texas.
Other HSID winners included Camryn Burkins, Carnegie Vanguard High School; Somotochi Okafor, Michael E. Debakey High School for Health Professions; and Nicole Syder, Westside High School.
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