Fifty-three Grapevine-Colleyville ISD students have earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Programs, a distinction that can be included on college and scholarship applications.
Honors presented are the National African American Recognition Award (NAARA), National Hispanic Recognition Award (NHRA), National Rural and Small Town Award (NRSTA), National Indigenous Award (NIA) and new in 2024, National First Generation Recognition Award (NFGRA). Students who may be eligible have a GPA of 3.5 or higher and have excelled on the PSAT/NMSQT or PSAT 10, or earned a score of 3 or higher on two or more AP Exams; and are African American or Black, Hispanic American or Latinx, Indigenous, attend school in a rural area or small town and/or be a first-generation college student.
Congratulations to the following students:
Collegiate Academy
Daniel Paredes, NFGRA and NHRA
Ari Roach, NHRA
Colleyville Heritage
Elizabeth Akinmerese, NAARA
Joshua Barron, NHRA
Dylan Beckmann NHRA
Debra Campbell, NAARA
Grace Chagani, NAARA
Lukas Chanthikul, NAARA
Lucia Cisneros, NHRA and NFGRA
Jelena Contreras, NHRA and NFGRA
Leilany Diaz, NHRA
Dilara Doganay, NHRA and NFGRA
Kaitlyn Frey, NFGRA
Natalie Garcia, NHRA
Arshi Hirani, NFGRA
Julian Klingelhoefer, NAARA
Mia Knappenberger, NHRA
Daylanis Lizardi, NFGRA
Aidan Loughran, NAARA
Giovanni Martinez, NHRA and NFGRA
Daniel Meng, NFGRA
Zia Mithani, NFGRA
Brooklyn Payne, NFGRA
Devin Payne, NFGRA
Tobias Pinero, NFGRA, NHRA and NIA
Lisa Rosales, NFGRA and NHRA
Zara Saenz, NHRA
Shrey Sedhain, NFGRA
Audrey Torres, NHRA
Meilani Trone, NFGRA and NIA
Victoria Wilson, NAARA
Joel Zavala, NHRA
Grapevine High School
Jaelyn Almodovar, NHRA
Elise Cunha, NFGRA
Jordyn Fender, NHRA
Andre Garcia, NHRA
John Keefe, NHRA
Jack Markle, NIA
Anna Morales, NHRA
Bailey Nguyen, NFGRA
Naara Romero, NFGRA and NHRA
Jayden Sanders, NFGRA
Francesca Schuh, NHRA
Juan Trujillo, NFGRA and NHRA
Ricardo Valverde, NFGRA
Zaine White, NFGRA
iUniversity Prep
Rigoberto Gomez, NFGRA
Kinsley Mcgee, NIA
Dylan Thompson, NHRA
Kalen Wright, NAARA
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