{"id":192824,"date":"2026-03-06T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192824\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:51:07","slug":"high-school-senior-earns-competitive-military-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192824\/","title":{"rendered":"High school senior earns competitive military scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8211; An exciting day for one\u00a0Transmountain Early College High School senior after she is presented with one of the most competitive military scholarships in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Faith Jeon earned the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps\u00a0National Full Ride Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>It Is a highly selective award that is only granted to 14 students across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Jeon said that her dad being away from the military has taught her to be strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That also taught me a lot of resilience and, overcoming adversity. And, even if you don&#8217;t have those experiences, like being sure of yourself and knowing who you are and having that mindset will definitely help you out,&#8221; said Jeon. <\/p>\n<p>Jeon\u00a0plans to attend Rice University to study political science.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8211; An exciting day for one\u00a0Transmountain Early College High School senior after she is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-192824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192824","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=192824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}