‘Remarkable’ 10-Year-Old Girl Earns a Surprise Full-Ride College Scholarship

South Carolina State University amazed a pre-teen girl from Georgia pinch a full-ride danasiwa during her caller sojourn to nan assemblage campus.

Kendall Rae Johnson, 10, received a elephantine danasiwa check, weighted astatine $83,800, while gathering SC State President Alexander Conyers.

After he presented nan young Atlanta resident pinch nan cheque —  which covers tuition, fees arsenic good arsenic room and committee — she excitedly jumped retired of her chair and yelled, “Thank you,” as seen successful a SC State video.

“We were genuinely inspired by Kendall Rae’s attraction and maturity,” Conyers said successful a news release. “It’s not each time you meet a 10-year-old who talks astir microorganisms, harvest counts and longhorn cattle. She’s remarkable.”

The woman is nan youngest USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) certified husbandman successful nan country, and because of her knowledge and liking successful farming, she earned SC State’s 1890 Agriculture Innovation Scholarship, which is intended to “recruit, retain, train and postgraduate a career-ready workforce for nan agriculture and ag-related industries.”

Johnson, who began increasing collard greens astatine 3, now farms connected astir an acre of onshore that has been passed down successful nan family. 

“I for illustration helping nan organization retired pinch caller fruits and vegetables,” she told SC State, adding that this includes peaches, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, apples, beets, carrots, tomatoes and okra. “I besides for illustration to recreation and study different farming techniques and really different group do it.”

Johnson’s parents, Ursula and Quentin, joined her successful Orangeburg for nan sojourn to SC State, which is simply a historically achromatic assemblage and assemblage (HBCU).