Aviation Students Receive $8,000 Timothy E. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Award
Six professional pilot technology students at Miami Dade College were awarded the $8,000 Timothy E. Johnson Scholarship for Aspiring Pilots.
The winners were Raul Carta Lama, Maiky Cortes, Farida Moalim, Daniel Perez, Hardel Rodriguez de Cancio and Melisa Zozaya.
To be eligible, applicants had to be full-time students with a minimum of 12 credits in the School of Aviation. They also submitted a personal essay and two letters of recommendation from aviation professors.
The Timothy E. Johnson Scholarship provides $40,000 a year to MDC to help an average of five to eight students from the School of Aviation become pilots.
