Nikita McNamee is the 3rd MCC student to be nominated for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship is a prestigious award given to high-achieving high school seniors or recent graduates with financial need. It provides funding for undergraduate studies, covering tuition, living expenses, books, and other costs. She talks about what motivated her to apply.

She says the scholarship aligns with her academic goals the as the JKC scholarship help out a lot with research and she wants to become a professor for research

She says this scholarship will help her financially and it will help MCC and the city of Marshalltown as a whole by boosting morale for students who wish to attain such prestigious awards in the future.

Jesse DeMeyer, KFJB News Reporter