{"id":777549,"date":"2019-03-27T19:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T00:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=777549"},"modified":"2019-03-28T19:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T00:12:03","slug":"two-tjc-students-named-coca-cola-academic-team-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=777549","title":{"rendered":"Two TJC Students Named Coca-Cola Academic Team Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/tjc-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/tjc-sign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-766534\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; Tyler Junior College students Caleigh Reese and Griselle Esparza have been selected as 2019 Coca-Cola Academic Team Scholars. Reese, a sophomore general studies major from Rusk, has been named a Coca-Cola Silver Scholar and will receive a $1,250 scholarship. After graduating from TJC in May, Reese plans to transfer to The University of Texas at Tyler and pursue a career in nursing. Esparza, a sophomore biology major of Tyler, originally from Monterrey, Mexico, is a Coca-Cola Bronze Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Following graduation from TJC in May, Esparza plans to transfer to a university and major in biology. Besides the scholarships, both also receive a commemorative medallion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Students are nominated for the academic team by their college administrators. The selection is based on academic achievement, leadership and engagement in college and community service. Coca-Cola Academic Team members will be recognized in both local and statewide ceremonies and will also be recognized internationally during Phi Theta Kappa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual convention, PTK Catalyst, April 4-6 in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; Tyler Junior College students Caleigh Reese and Griselle Esparza have been selected as 2019 Coca-Cola Academic Team Scholars. Reese, a sophomore general studies major from Rusk, has been named a Coca-Cola Silver Scholar and will receive a $1,250 scholarship. After graduating from TJC in May, Reese plans to transfer to The University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=777549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two TJC Students Named Coca-Cola Academic Team Scholars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":766534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 23:33:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777723,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777549\/revisions\/777723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/766534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}