Peyton Dress, a Hickory Flat Elementary School fourth-grader, and Claudia Evans, a Dean Rusk Middle School eighth-grader, have won full scholarships to NASA Space Camp. The students are eligible to attend one Space Camp Aviation Challenge or Robotics six-day camp program during the next year at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The scholarship covers tuition, room and board.

Peyton is in the Chess Club, Drawing Club, Science Olympiad Team and Duke TIP Program at Hickory Flat Elementary School. He is very interested in robotics and plans to participate in Space Camp's Robotics program.

Claudia is on the school News Team, Chess Club, Beta Club, Art Club, Jr. Optimist Club and the Academic Bowl Competition Team. She also plays basketball for the Cherokee Youth Basketball Sequoyah Chiefs, which had an undefeated season this school year.