By Ty Tagami
Several Cobb County students won Achievement Scholarship awards for black Americans, and will receive $2,500 from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Winners were: Emma I. Edoga, of South Cobb High School; Oluwatobi J. Akindoju and Amari J. El-Amin, of Wheeler High; Jonathan O. Ebhogiaye and Kamaria A. Laing, of George Walton Comprehensive High; Nicole M. Mwaura, of Hillgrove High; Brandon J. Walker, of Campbell High. Another student, Avery W. Brown, of Wheeler High, won a corporate-sponsored Achievement Scholarship -- the UPS Foundation Scholarship.