34 WCPSS Students Named Teaching Fellows
April 11, 2007 - 34 WCPSS Seniors earned NC Teaching Fellows scholarships this year. Another 13 students were recognized as alternates.2007 Teaching Fellows
The students named Teaching Fellows include Kathleen Denise Riggsbee and Christina Anna Rita Waltz of Apex High; Anna Christian Allen of Broughton High; Afeefa Awad Ayesh, Lauren Michelle Bajorek, Sarah Louise Belles, Caitlin Mary Donovan, Laura Michelle Grabowski, Jessica Lynne Morrow, Audrey Christie-Emily Nestianu of Cary High; Elizabeth L. Alford, Kerry Ann Mootoo and Matthew Sigma Wall of East Wake High; Crystal Nicole Espey of Fuquay-Varina High; William Andrew Dibble and Jenny Rose Hunnicutt of Garner High; Kenjo Kunzo Fujii, Sarah Elizabeth Grzesik and Lindsay Rae Williams of Green Hope High; Ivy Elizabeth McCreary of Knightdale High; Jasmine Chantal Brunson, Kristen Kathleen Eure and Katharine Christene Locke of Leesville Road High; Elizabeth June-Heline Dobbins and Megan Elizabeth Lyles of Middle Creek High; Christopher Richard DiMassimo of Millbrook High; Jessica Nicole Dobyns and Scott Kendrick McFarlane of Sanderson High; Karen Lientte Hawley and Sarah English Smith of Wake Forest-Rolesville High; Nickolas Christopher Fields, Andrea Denise Jones and Laura Nicole Pierrie of Wakefield High.
2007 Teaching Fellows Alternates
The students named Teaching Fellows alternates include Lisa Nicole Fanelli, Amelia Nicole Gardner and Kimberly Ann MacDougall of Athens Drive High; Jenna Lynn Myers and Katharine Anne Schulthels of Cary High; Megan Marie Keith of Fuquay-Varina High; Tracy Renee Cottrell of Knightdale High; Amy Marie Wolf of Leesville Road High; Lauren Nicole Pilley of Millbrook High; Cassandra Marie Haran and Melissa Lauren Jones of Sanderson High; Jessica Leigh Thomas of Wakefield High; and Allyson Lauren Sutton of East Wake School of Health Sciences.
Cary High had seven, the largest number of Teaching Fellows, Leesville Road High had four.
The Teaching Fellows Program provides a $6,500 per year scholarship for four years to 500 outstanding North Carolina high school seniors. Recipients must be legal residents of North Carolina and citizens of the United States. Upon acceptance of the scholarship, the student agrees to teach for four years following graduation from college in one of North Carolina’s public schools or United States Government schools in North Carolina. If the recipient cannot repay the scholarship through service, the loan is repaid to the State with a 10 percent interest.
The mission of the program has been to recruit talented high school graduates into the teaching profession and to help them develop leadership qualities such as visionary thinking and risk-taking; qualities
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Teaching Fellows recipients are selected through a collaborative process that occurs at the school district and regional levels. Selection committees are composed of education, political, business, and community leaders from across the state. Over 1,200 volunteers are involved each year in identifying the recipients.
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