Harmony High School Student Among NET RMA Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarship Winners
$1,000 awards go to 11 high school seniors in Northeast Texas
Mallory Bowin, Harmony H.S, being awarded safe driving scholarship by Curtis Rath, NET RMA Board Member.
(Tyler, TX) – The North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NET RMA) announced the recipients for its 4th 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 Mallory Bowin, a graduating senior at Harmony High School.
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.”
In her winning essay, Mallory Bowin focused on the downside of parents being responsible for their teenager’s driver training and keeping driver’s education classes in high schools.
Mallory Bowin plans to attend Tyler Junior College to study education.
Other safe driving scholarship winners focused on new technologies to limit cell phone use on the road and personal stories on how distracted driving impacted their life. You can meet all of 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.
About the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NET RMA)
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. Texas RMAs were made possible through an initiative passed by the State Legislature in 2001. The NET RMA was established in October 2004. For more information visit, NETRMA.org.
