Zariah Fluker is the winner of the $1,000 scholarship for 2019-2020 awarded by the Kiwanis Club of Pine Bluff.
The graduate of Pine Bluff High School plans to attend the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, where she will be majoring in industrial technology management and applied engineering, according to a news release.
In high school, Fluker was a member of the National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta. She also belonged to the Debate Club, the Drama Club, was secretary of the Future Business Leaders of America, served on the student council and was chief editor of the PBHS Yearbook.
Outside of school, Fluker also did volunteer work, helping with tutoring, city cleanups, clothing drives and a soup kitchen.
She is a member of Old St. James Missionary Baptist Church, where she led the Scholars Ministry, sings in the choir and is part of the church’s Praise Dance Troop.
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She was named the Best Principles of Engineering Student in 2018.
Fluker said she hopes to earn a master’s degree in business administration after graduating from UAPB.
She has three goals:
To rebuild Pine Bluff, because “this city has helped me to become who I am today,” she said.
To inspire young women to pursue male-dominated careers.
To repay her parents “for all they’ve done for me.”