Nacogdoches County’s Opportunity for Better Learning Experience (NOBLE) is an educational program, sponsored by the business community, designed to encourage high school students to take more demanding courses to better prepare them for the world after high school. Students from schools across the county received scholarships to attend Stephen F. Austin State University through the program. Front row, from left, are Nancy Delatorre, Nacogdoches High School; Molly Harwell, Woden High School; Marielena Guzman, Nacogdoches High School; Jasmine Flores, Nacogdoches High School; Cindy Ramirez, Nacogdoches High School; Lora Poskey, Douglass High School; Erin Windham, chair of the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce Education Committee; back row, Lena Lard, Nacogdoches High School; Shannon Locke, Martinsville High School; Caleb Jacobs, Woden High School; Andrew McClure, Cushing High School; Gina Oblesbee, interim president of SFA; Briana Bland, Nacogdoches High School; Haylee Harman, Regents Academy and Michael Stidham, member of the chamber’s Education Committee. Other NOBLE scholars include Amy Sauceda, Nacogdoches High School; Jennifer Ramirez, Nacogdoches High School; Bailey Scott, Douglass High School;  Paola Sifventes; Central Heights High School and Jaylen Raley, Woden High School. 

NOBLE Scholars is a program of the Nacogdoches County Chamber Foundation.