Fort Worth Student Celebrates College Success

By Deborah Ferguson
Published on NBC DFW, July 28, 2021

This article features a student from our affiliate school, Young Women’s Leadership Academy – Fort Worth.

Getting through the first year of college is an accomplishment on its own – but making the Dean’s List while studying remotely is something good.

And that’s exactly what Aida Martinez did.

This time last year, the young woman from Fort Worth graduated from the Young Women’s Leadership Academy and was headed 1,700 miles from home to college in Massachusetts.

The pandemic turned those plans upside down.

Instead of experiencing campus life at Smith College, a private woman’s college in North Hampton, Martinez spent her freshman year – that critical year of adjustment – at home connecting with professors remotely

Her self-discipline, determination, and perseverance paid off.