{"id":179007,"date":"2026-02-25T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:02:11","slug":"texas-5th-grader-to-be-guest-of-melania-trump-at-state-of-the-union-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179007\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas 5th grader to be guest of Melania Trump at State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771988531_362_gettyimages-2234560541.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">AUSTIN, TEXAS &#8211; SEPTEMBER 09: Everest Nevraumont at Alpha School Austin on September 09, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern\/Getty Images for Alpha School) <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas<\/a> fifth grader will be one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/people\/melania-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first lady Melania Trump<\/a>&#8216;s guests for Tuesday night&#8217;s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Everest Nevraumont, a 10-year-old student at Austin&#8217;s Alpha School, will be in the first lady&#8217;s box representing part of Trump&#8217;s BE BEST Fostering the Future initiative.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Nevraumont has made numerous appearances on television and hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fw_2sgGsirw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TEDx Talk<\/a> about using artificial intelligence to aid in learning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">She attends Alpha School in Austin, which touts a curriculum that&#8217;s based on a learning model that&#8217;s based on students spending two hours per day on core academics and the rest of the time in workshops based on the students&#8217; interests. The school claims the students grow at a faster rate compared to traditional models.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/everestnevraumont.com\/#about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nevraumont&#8217;s website<\/a>, she&#8217;s won multiple state history championships and was on the winning three-person International History Bowl team.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The pair will be joined by foster care advocate and Melania Trump Foster Youth to Independence program recipient Sierra Burns, from South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/texas-5th-grader-guest-melania-trump-state-union-everest-nevraumont\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;Sierra and Everest embody my ongoing mission to uplift America\u2019s foster youth and expand opportunity for our next generation through education and technology,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I am proud to have them join me at this historic event. Sierra and Everest represent the young people across America whose personal experience, drive, and self-motivation reflect the goals of my BE BEST Fostering the Future initiatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/texas-5th-grader-guest-melania-trump-state-union-everest-nevraumont\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/people\/donald-j-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a> will give the State of the Union address at 8 p.m. CST Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the White House, Everest Nevraumont and Alpha School.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/people\/donald-j-trump\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald J. Trump<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/people\/melania-trump\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melania Trump<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, TEXAS &#8211; SEPTEMBER 09: Everest Nevraumont at Alpha School Austin on September 09, 2025 in Austin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,7810,71699,223,391,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-179007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-donald-j-trump","12":"tag-melania-trump","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-people","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}