(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by NDSU.)

Mckayla Ewing, daughter of Pete and Brenda Ewing, of Becker, received the North Dakota State University Presidential Honor Award in the amount of $8,000. The Presidential Honor Award recognizes students who scored a 29 to 31 on the ACT and had a 3.5 or higher high school GPA.

Ewing will enter NDSU in the fall and plans to major in agribusiness with a minor in business administration. In high school, she was involved in volleyball, robotics and was the secretary of her high school’s National Honor Society.