2012

-- "Patience" awarded Best of Show at 2012 Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival Fine Arts Competition.

-- "Patience" and "Mother's Iris" awarded Honorable Mentions at the Fountain City Arts Center Open Show 2012.

--Graduated Salutatorian from Lincoln Memorial University with a B.S. in Chemistry.

2011

-- "Extravagance" awarded Best of Show at 2011 Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival Fine Arts Competition as well as first place in the floral division. "Sunset at the Pinnacle" received third place in the landscape division.

--"Orange Intensity" and "Face-Off" published in The Emancipator.

2010

-- "The Godfather" published in The Emancipator an LMU student publication.

-- 2010 Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival Art Competition - 4th Place in Florals, 4th Place in Landscape, 3rd place Animals.

--2010 TN Valley Fair - Best of Show fine arts competition; 1st place Florals, 2nd place Animals, 2nd place Father's Day Card design

2009

-- 2009 Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival Art Competition - 3rd in Florals, 5th in Animals, and 6th in Other

-- 2009 TN Valley Fair - 1st place in floral painting, 1st place in drawing, and 2nd place in animals

2008

- Won a Silver Key and an Honorable Mention at the 2008 Scholastic Art Awards.

-- First place at the 2008 TN Beta Club Convention in the colored pencil competition.

-- Won Best of Show in the 2008 TN Junior Federal Duck Stamp Design Contest.

-- Named the valedictorian of his graduating class.

-- Won the 4th Congressional District Art Competition, as well as 18 ribbons, 8 of them first places.

-- Won the CCHS Art Show.

-- Won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place in the youth painting division at the 2008 Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival.

-- Won 5th place in the colored pencil competition at the National Beta Club Convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

-- 2008 TN Valley Fair - 1st place youth painting, 1st place youth drawing, 1st place animal painting, and 3rd place drawing.

2007

-- First Place in 2007 TN Junior Duck Stamp Competition

-- 2^nd and 3^rd place overall in 4th TN Congressional District Art Competition; 1^st and 3^rd Place in painting division and 1^st and 3^rd  Place in drawing division.

-- 1^st Place in TN for Wildlife Forever’s State-Fish Art Contest

-- 2nd place in CCHS Show

-- 12 Ribbons at the 2007 TN Valley Fair (4 first place, 3 second place, 2 third place, 2 fourth place, and Sweepstakes ribbon winner for having won the most ribbons)

-- A painting was published in Teen Ink magazine.

-- Won the 2007 Fish On! Art Contest for his age division

2006