LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A student from Arkansas who is attending Tuskegee University has now been selected as a 2025-2027 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship recipient.

Carrington Thompson is a junior Plant and Soil Science major and is also the first Voyager recipient from the Natural State.

His uncle and a family friend, who are both agriculture professionals, sparked what later became Thompson’s passion for agriculture as both a career and a way of life.

“Watching them both inspired me,” Thompson described.

While in high school, Thompson became a member of Future Farmers of America (FFA). When he arrived at Tuskegee as a freshman, he discovered there was no chapter at the school, so he started one.

The chapter is now operating in a partnership with the Macon County Career Tech FFA.

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