Etosha Cave joins the first freshman class at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, a new college in Needham, Massachusetts. She was named an Olin Scholar and received a full scholarship for all four years. The Booker T. Washington Valedictorian was also a National Achievement Scholarship winner and received a $4,000 scholarship for being named the National Pre-College Initiatives (PCI) Student of the Year. PCI is a program created by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), a collegiate organization of students in engineering schools. The largest student run organization in the nation, NSBE has over l0,000 members.

Cave was honored recently by the Sunrise Kiwanis Club at the club’s l0th Chartering Anniversary and Scholarship Banquet. She received the highest scholarship awarded by the organization which raises money, primarily through the Annual K-family barbecue dinner, and sets a portion of it aside for scholarships to selected members of the Key Club at Booker T. Washington high school or the Circle K and Aktion clubs at Houston Community College System-Northeast College.

In addition to the Key Club, Cave was active in a host of school activities. She also became a dual credit student her senior year. A partnership between HCCS-Northeast College and Booker T. Washington, dual credit allows students to earn both high school and college credit at the same time.

Cave earned 12 college credit hours her senior year through dual credit courses in English and Biology. She’s adding to that total this summer by taking four credit hours in Calculus, four in Physics, and one credit each in Jazz Ensemble/violin and Improvisation at HCCS.