From the Community May 15, 2025

Some years ago, when then Conroe High School math teacher Sam Cable was attending a senior awards night, he was inspired to start a new scholarship program.

In 2016, he put an idea together to follow the progress of students with potential during their high school years and award them scholarships as a senior. This became the All Means All scholarship program through Conroe ISD’s Education Foundation also with the help of Nelda and Maris Blair. 

A group of 14 students were the first recipients in 2016. The 2025 All Means All scholarships were awarded to 10, ninth-grade students on May 6. 

“For the next three years, we will monitor their grades and performance at Conroe High, and then the $2,000 scholarships will be presented to each of the recipients upon graduation,” Cable, who is now retired, said. “The scholarship is designed to be an incentive for achievement during their high school years as well as a reward for excellent performance.” 

Cable said to date, the group has presented approximately 80, $2,000 scholarships to deserving students.

“We are constantly receiving requests for information about how to help in the program,” he said. “Our community is amazing in how it cares for others. We are constantly seeing how $2,000 can totally change a life. Thank you to all of you who have helped in this endeavor.”

There are 25 upper class AMA recipients at CHS representing approximately 150 academic classes among them. Each Monday, Cable receives a grade report for the participating students and stays in touch with the student and the student’s teachers if assistance is needed. 

“On the weekly reports of their grades the students are consistently reporting between 110 and 120 of the 150 classes to be As,” he said. “We are so proud of their achievements. This is exactly what the scholarship was designed to do.”

For many of the AMA students, they will be the first in their family to attend college. 

Visit the website cisdeducationfoundation.org for more about the Conroe ISD Education Foundation. 

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