Tennessee Tech student Mark Rine received the John C. Lewis Young Leadership Award. He was recognized for individual and group efforts on the TTU campus and with the NAACP State Youth and College Division. “This has been the most rewarding and enlightening leadership position I have held, and I look forward to this continued bridging of gaps and necessary conversation. Our membership is rock solid and self-sacrificing. We are bold, fearless, confident, and well prepared.”