5th year in a row Martin students have earned scholarship
Bryan Chan sees camping out for basketball tickets in his future.
The Martin High School STEM Academy 2025 graduate is heading to Duke University to study electrical and computer engineering – and to become an avid Blue Devil basketball fan. His future school is known for its basketball-crazy student body that camps out in line to get tickets for basketball games.
While Chan doesn’t have any of those coveted basketball tickets yet, he got something even more desirable last week. And it came in the mail – in an Amazon box.
Chan opened that box last week in front of several of his Martin teachers and administrators. Inside was a certificate declaring Chan the recipient of an Amazon Future Engineer scholarship and internship. There was a nice Amazon hoodie in the box, too.
The highly-competitive scholarship offers up to $40,000 at the school of the recipient’s choice along with an internship at Amazon.
“The internship is the big deal,” said Martin STEM teacher James Hovey. “After freshman year, they pay you over the summer more than $10,000 a month, plus they pay you housing.”
Hovey is himself a big deal at Martin and a big reason that Martin students have won this Amazon scholarship in each of the last five years.
“Look at Mr. Hovey over there,” Chan said after opening the box. “He’s been my teacher for four years and he’s just really motivated me to get to where I am today. I couldn’t have done it without him.”
Chan is grateful for the support he received at Martin and for what this Amazon opportunity means.
“I’ve just been like, wow, I really do have the opportunity to intern in Seattle, meet all these new people and work for Amazon,” he said, now wearing the new hoodie. “It’s the best head start I could have in my life.”