Local Students Win Yes I Can! Awards
LIVINGSTON, La. – Two Livingston Parish students have been selected as recipients of the 2025 Yes I Can award.
This distinguished award is presented by the National Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), which honors children and youth with disabilities who have excelled. The program recognizes 12 outstanding students across the nation with exceptionalities in the six categories of Academics, Arts, School & Community Activities, Self-Advocacy, Technology, and Transition.
This year’s local winners are Joseph Brignac, a student at Freshwater Elementary, who was nominated by his teacher, Emily Adams, in academics; and Jacob Draper, a student at French Settlement High, who was nominated by his teacher, Angela Leader, in arts.
As program winners, the students and their families will receive travel expenses to attend the National CEC convention award ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland in March 2025.