Two Presidential Scholars win Eckman Awards
For their performance in the spring of 2025 in honors at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars won $100 checks. Sophomore Mary Faith Wilson, the college’s Gladys Winkle Scholar, came out ahead among the sophomores, scoring the highest among the two-year cohort in the McGraw Hill Poster contest, and concluding with a perfect GPA, and a high score in Honors Psychology. Mary Faith has now won Eckmans for both of her two semesters in honors. Among the first-year students, ending the year with impressive scores in the ChemPsych Seminar, Stephanie Hernandez came out on top. She also won a cash award in the poster contest, and was the first Presidential Scholar to reach apex scores for both sides of the 2nd year-old seminar, performing brilliantly in both chemistry and psychology. Like Wilson who won a Red River Symposium Award in Texarkana, and a Caldwell Award in Houston, Hernandez has also led NTCC to awards elsewhere this spring—in Denton, Houston, and Texarkana.
