An Oklahoma Union High School senior wins the 2026 Patriot Auto Student of the Year.

 

Amina Washington received the award last night from our sister stations at Bartlesville Radio. Washington won a 2026 Chevy Trax with tag, tax and title paid; and a $10,000 annual scholarship for four years from Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

 

She is the FCCLA state vice president of community service and volleyball captain at Oklahoma Union. Washington leads service and safety campaigns, works at Braum’s in Coffeyville and plans to study journalism at the University of Missouri for a public service career.

 

Washington says she is grateful to the people in her life that helped her get to this point, especially her grandparents.

 

Bartlesville's Jackson Boudreaux and Nowata's Mashayla Brown were named first and second runners-up respectively, each winning scholarship awards.

 

The ConocoPhillips STEM Student of the Year was Bartlesville's Griffin Salerno, who received a $5,000 scholarship and Copan's Sam Thornton received the $1,000 Sutton Center Conservation Hero Award.

 

Bartlesville's Kelsie Yales was named the Female Athlete of the Year and Copan's Teegan Caron was named the Male Athlete of the Year.

 

The winners were part of a group of 55 high school seniors who were recognized Tuesday evening during the 10th annual Patriot Auto Night of Scholars and Champions held at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. In all, more than $633,000 in scholarships and prizes were awarded.