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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Bowie County student wins safe driving scholarship
TYLER, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – The North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NET RMA) named 10 winners of its 5th annual Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarship. $2,000 was awarded to each student, including Tristan Carter, a senior at Pleasant Grove High School. In his scholarship essay, Tristan weighed the pros and cons of specific technologies, such as driver-assistance systems, hands-free capabilities, and smartphone apps, and their effects on safe driving habits. 'Learning to drive is one of the most exciting things a teenager can do,' Carter said. 'Technologies found in the form of GPS make navigation easier, while safety features like lane departure warnings make the road an overall safer place. However, the more readily available technologies become, the more dependent we can become to them. What happens if warning systems fail, cameras glitch out, and self-driving computers cannot handle the weather?' Teens learn life-saving skills at Sheriff's Safety Town The scholarship emphasizes the importance of safe driving practices to area high school students and their communities. Recipients were chosen based on safe driving-themed essays and academic and extracurricular achievements. Winners can use scholarship funds for tuition, fees, books, room, board, or other expenses required by their college or university. 'The Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarship Program showcases the very best Northeast Texas has to offer,' said Andrea Williams McCoy, NET RMA Community Relations Chair. 'We are honored to play a small part in these exceptional students' educational journeys and look forward to following their successes through college, trade school, and beyond.' To learn more about the winners and read their essays, visit Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Yahoo
NETRMA awards safe driving scholarships to 10 East Texas students
TYLER, Texas (KETK) — The North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NETRMA) has awarded their fifth annual Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarships to ten local high school seniors. Tyler Police Department deploys extra officers for Memorial Day weekend The $2,000 Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarships were awarded to the following students based upon their safe-driving themed essays and their extracurricular achievements: Gregg County Carolyn Purdum – Longview High School Omika Patel – Longview High School Joe Ray – Sabine High School Smith County Sydney Hines – Lindale High School Parker Pierce – Bullard High School Wood County Daniel Kernes – Quitman High School Emilee Reed – Winnsboro High School Cass County Vincent Wong – Queen City High School Kaufman County MaKennah Duncan – Forney High School Bowie County Tristan Carter – Pleasant Grove High School 'The Linda Thomas Safe Driving Scholarship Program showcases the very best Northeast Texas has to offer,' NETRMA community relations chair Andrea Williams McCoy said. 'We are honored to play a small part in these exceptional students' educational journeys and look forward to following their successes through college, trade school and beyond.' The scholarship helps students understand and practice safe driving. Sydney Hines from Lindale even produced a short documentary called 'Just Five Beers' about the dangers of drunk driving and a woman named Cindy, whose daughter and mother died in a drunk driving crash in 1970. 'Winning this scholarship allows more people to see the film and to hear Cindy's story,' Hines said. 'Hopefully it encourages more people to make the right choices and to understand that drinking and driving is not ok, it will never be ok, and there are people out there who are affected by it every single day.' To learn more or to read all of the winners' essays, visit NETRMA online. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
