2021 Awardees
Christopher
Taylor
Christopher Taylor is a Class of 2021 graduate of East St. John High School and St. John the Baptist Parish STEM Magnet Program. Finishing 2nd out of 374 students, he was honored to serve as Salutatorian of his high school as well as St. John the Baptist High School Student of the Year. He obtained a GPA of 4.0.
He is planning to attend the prestigious Xavier University of Louisiana in the Fall. While at Xavier University he will be majoring in Mass Communication in hopes to grow his knowledge of journalism and communication.
He is looking forward to having a strong student presence on Xavier’s campus as he will continue to engage in student leadership opportunities.
Eman Munoz
Eman was accepted into Howard University with a final GPA of 3.7 after graduating early in the winter of 2020. Eman plans to major in Nursing and complete the graduate program for Clinical Laboratory Science.
He been an essential worker for the past year as a student CNA at Baylor Scott & White and recognized by Allen High School as the highest earner of dual credit in his graduating class.
Erron
Williams
Erron Williams is a Junior at Prairie View A&M University studying Chemical Engineering. He has devoted Countless Volunteer Hours to the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) serving in 5 Executive positions including a current position on the National Executive Board as The Pre-College Initiative Chair responsible for Overseeing all programs in the society geared towards inspiring young black students k-12 to Major STEM.
He is a Halliburton RISE Scholar and a current Summer Engineering Intern at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). When he has free time Erron can be found Playing basketball or eating at new restaurants with friends.
His long-term career goal is to successfully design a Nuclear Fusion Tokamak to help solve the world's energy crisis. Nuclear Fusion does not produce the harmful waste products that Nuclear Fission does so this breakthrough would not only save our natural resources but stop us from killing the environment in the process.