College Station High School student receives Amazon Future Engineer scholarship
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – A student at College Station High School received a very special surprise Thursday when it was revealed that she was selected as an Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship winner.
It was a total surprise for Cynthia Zhao when she got the news delivered to her in an Amazon box.
She’ll receive up to a $40,000 scholarship to the school of her choice and a paid internship with Amazon after her freshman year of college.
”It’s so exciting to be able to give back to this community in such a way, and we know she will represent you all well wherever she lands in college,” Vickie Yakunin, Head of Community Affairs at Amazon, said.
Zhao plans to study statistics at Texas A&M University and is also interested in computer science. She said receiving this scholarship is one of her biggest accomplishments.
”All the things that I learned are actually now very useful. It’s like proof that everything I did is what I should do, and all my efforts have been made,” she said.
Zhao is one of only 400 students selected for this nationwide scholarship.
