2016 Next Mile Recipients

Read about this month's standout students, Crystal Birdsong and Daiquon Bogan.

Crystal Birdsong, a graduate of Northeastern High School in Elizabeth City, N.C., studies automotive tech at University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima, Ohio, and will graduate in February of 2018. She is involved in ROTC and has won awards in industrial and automotive excellence. Crystal’s mother, Susan Birdsong, is an Office Manager at Hall Ford Elizabeth City.




Daiquon Bogan, an alumnus of Perry Hall High School in Baltimore, will graduate from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, in May of 2020 with a degree in exercise science. He was named 2016 AVID Student of the Year. His father, Robert Thomas, works at Mazda Bel Air as a Service Advisor.