Texas Bank and Trust (TB&T) is pleased to announce the selection of 29 Tyler ISD high school seniors to serve on its 2024-2025 Student Board of Directors. The TB&T Student Board is a prestigious program recognizing outstanding high school seniors in the community.
Seniors, representing Legacy High School, Tyler High School, and, for the first time, Early College High School, include Fatima Ali, William Barker, Tharyn Buenaventura, Grayson Bunt, Yoselin Bustamante, Caitlyn Clark, Sophia Chavez, Shloak Dalal, Rebecca Dong, Stephanie Esparza, Ava Greene, Daira Gauna, Nathan Kiblinger, Cole Kimmel, Anthony Palau, Michael Peveto, Sebastian Raney, Michael Rowan, Reese Rowe, Abariza Rooker, Shontice Schooling, Madeleine Singley, Carson Spillman, Mila Teuber, Daniel Tierrablanca, Alba Tomas-Martinez, Ariana Torres, Alyssia Waddell, and Jawhar Yasin. They will join with 50 other seniors from All Saints Episcopal, Brook Hill, Bishop TK Gorman, and Grace Community Schools to make up the 16th senior class to participate in the TB&T program in Tyler.
The 2024-2025 Student Board members were introduced to the TB&T bank staff in an Orientation Reception on Monday, August 26, in the main lobby of the bank’s West Grande Branch location. Parents and school administrators were in attendance.
The Student Board program is designed to introduce students to banking and money management at a critical point in their lives and provide them with the essential economic building blocks to earning, spending, saving, and investing money. This year, the students will test their innovation and business development skills with the return of the popular program, Investment Quest, first introduced to the Student Board 10 years ago. As aspiring “entrepreneurs,” the student board members will have eight months to conceptualize a product, service, or business they could potentially bring to market.
Texas Bank and Trust established the Student Board - its first and most enduring financial literacy program - in 1978.
Students from Legacy, Tyler High, Early College High, All Saints, Grace, Gorman and Brook Hill may apply during their junior year beginning in January. Students are selected based on their grade point average, extra-curricular activities, and work activities. Students must submit an essay with their application as well as two letters of recommendation from either a faculty member or administrator to be considered for the program. Students accepted into the 2024 Student Board program were notified in early June.
Since its inception, the Student Board has introduced more than 3,600 area high school seniors to banking and money management.
For information on how to participate in the 2025-2026 Student Board program, please contact Vice President Abigail Duty at (903) 579-8141.