Congratulations to the 2025 NATCA Scholarship Recipients

Every year, NATCA offers a scholarship program for spouses, children, stepchildren, and legally adopted children of active, retired, and deceased members in good standing for at least two consecutive years. This scholarship is for full-time attendance at accredited colleges and universities within the United States and its territories for an undergraduate degree program.

This year’s prompt asked candidates to examine factors that can strengthen or weaken labor unions.

For the 2025 scholarship, NATCA selected 21 winners, including one President’s Award winner – Baron Roberts. Baron is the child of deceased member Bryan Roberts.

Congratulations to all of our scholarship winners:

• • Victoria Andrade, child of Jariel Andrade (Memphis Center, ZME)
  • Kyle Buchan, child of Deborah Buchan (Grand Rapids ATCT, GRR)
  • Hayden Copadis, child of Alexander Copadis (Fort Worth Center, ZFW)
  • Reagan Cox, child of Brian Cox (Fort Worth Center, ZFW)
  • Carson Fischer, child of Curt Fischer (Boston TRACON, A90)
  • Anna Forbord, child of Jared Forbord (Minneapolis Center, ZMP)
  • Reagan Fowers, child of Seth Fowers (Command Center, DCC)
  • Talan Gardner, child of Brian Gardner (Allegheny County ATCT, AGC)
  • Kayli Greco, child of Anthony Graziano (New York Center, ZNY)
  • Chaeli Haupert, child of Amy Haupert (Fort Worth Center, ZFW)
  • Rafael Hiciano III, child of Rafael Hiciano Jr. (Omaha TRACON, R90)
  • Riley Lancaster, child of Clint Lancaster (Anchorage Center, ZAN)
  • Amara Moorhead, child of Matthew Moorhead (Minneapolis Center, ZMP)
  • Erin Murray, child of Matthew Murray (Boston Center, ZBW)
  • Brooklyn Nash, child of Christopher Lauer (Cleveland Center, ZOB)
  • Jackson Nutter, child of Benjamin Nutter (Hanscom Field ATCT, BED)
  • Lauren Pollak, child of Marc Pollak (New York Center, ZNY)
  • Baron Roberts, child of Bryan Roberts (Dallas TRACON, D10)
  • Lily Schmidt, child of Charles Schmidt (Denver International ATCT, DEN)
  • Farayi Smith, child of Ryan Smith (Atlanta TRACON, A80)
  • Abigail Sneve, child of Chad Sneve (Hickory Tower, HKY)