10/13/2025
Congratulations to Georgia Munden! She has been selected as our FIRST Black Plumbing - Abilene Teachers Federal Credit Union Star Student of the Month for this school year!🌟
She's a senior at Merkel High School with a 97.86 GPA and plans to attend either Tarleton State or Texas A & M to specialize in Artificial Insemination!
Georgia is a BIG part of her school, in FFA and within her community!
With academics, she's been or is currently involved with:
• Senior Class President
• National Honors Society President
• National Honor Society - Vice President her junior year (last year)
• College Courses (Cisco College): This Semester - College Algebra & Dual credit Sophomore American literature.
• College Courses (Cisco College): Next Semester - Statistics and Sophomore British Literature
• She’ll graduate with 24 college hours in May 2026 with a Business and Industry Endorsement on her diploma.
• Yearbook – All 4 Years
• Business Ads Editor
• Homecoming Program
• Livestock Show Program
• Photographer
• Competes in VASE
• SAE's (Supervised Agriculture Experience)
• LDE's (Leadership Development Events)
• SDE's (Speaking Development Events)
FFA is a HUGE part of high school for Georgia as well!
Georgia has been an active FFA officer throughout all three years of high school, serving as Chapter President for the past two years!
She has also represented Merkel FFA as both a Big Country District Officer and an Area Officer.
Her competition experience is extensive, including participation in Junior Quiz Team, Wool Judging, Livestock Judging, Cotton Judging, Public Relations, Job Interview contests and her Public Speaking Events.
Beyond competing, Georgia invests her time in conducting showmanship clinics, mentoring peers, and helping beginning exhibitors in our low-income community secure affordable animals to show!
She has been dedicated to showing goats since kindergarten and currently manages six head of her own, continuing to compete successfully.
Recently selected as an NRS Show Team Ambassador for 2025–2026, Georgia also operates her own small goat breeding business, which she manages independently with minimal assistance from her parents!
Georgia is so proud of her community and loves to help out in any way she can! Here's what she's been a part of:
• Merkel FFA program - helped organize canned food drives, created Christmas decorations for local nursing homes, and even shared her livestock knowledge by teaching other students—including her own competition—how to properly raise, feed, and show goats
• Meet the Badger
• Decorating floats for the homecoming parade
• Prepare the gym for graduation
You can find the full interview with Georgia on our website!
And if you know a student going above and beyond just like Georgia, nominate them at qcountryradio.com!
Our Star Student award is sponsored by Fat Matt Roofing & Cisco College!
