39 WCPSS Students Named NC Teaching Fellows

May 23, 2008 - Thirty-nine Wake County Public School System high school seniors have been named North Carolina Teaching Fellows and seven students have been named alternates.

The Teaching Fellows Program provides a $6,500 per year scholarship for four years at one of 18 North Carolina colleges or universities in turn for the students agreeing to teach for four years in one of North Carolina’s public schools.

The 39 Teaching Fellows attend 13 different WCPSS high schools. Cary High had eight students earn the scholarships. There were five Fellows at Green Hope High and four at Middle Creek High.

The 39 WCPSS Teaching Fellows include:

Apex High: Amanda Louise Carey, Allison Paige Huber, and Adrian Darnell West

Athens Drive High: Ranya Marwan Samara, Kevin Michael Still and Cuong Minh Tran

Broughton High: Morgan Victoria Huggins

Cary High: Emily Dawn Ash, Nelson Douglas Blair, Opal RaeAnn Carleton, Abigail Lea Huggins, Elizabeth Lashley Knight, Chase Landon Miller, Carolina Ines Perez, and Steven Malone Thomason

Enloe High: Samantha Elise Duke and Helen Alese Wright

Fuquay-Varina High: Dale Allen Jones and Jennifer Lynn Prince

Green Hope High: Lauren Patricia Boop, Christopher Angelo Phillips, Laura Noelle Schoedler, Jacqueline Leigh Serany, and Danielle Megan Taweel

Leesville Road High: Mallory Gwyn Nickel, Whitney Leigh Overturf and John Talmadge Willis

Middle Creek High: Rachael Nichole Beckner, James Allen Carter, Dillon Alexander Redding, Kirby Mae Treadaway

Sanderson High: Brianna Erin Castillo

Southeast Raleigh High: Marie Nicola Davis  and Jasmine Moize Gibson

Wake Forest-Rolesville High: Alise Raquel Miller and Alyson Marie Quigley

Wakefield High School: Justin Wade Carrington, Rachel Lea Gillem, Jordan Elise Koonce

Alternates are named to take the places of Fellows who choose not to pursue the scholarship.

Alternates from WCPSS high schools include Lauren Nicole Casteen of Broughton High; Sarah Marie Center and Jessica Lee Roberts of Cary High; Cecily Michelle Parrott and Lindsay LeAnne Tobin of Garner High; Caitlin Elise Yencha of Green Hope High; and Megan Ashley Towell of Middle Creek High.

In awarding the scholarships, the Teaching Fellows Screening committee members looked for qualities – such as academic achievement, leadership potential, strength of character, strong demonstrated interest in the profession and a desire for learning – that are associated with successful teachers.

The Teaching Fellows Program, was enacted by the General Assembly in 1986. The mission of the program is to recruit talented high school graduates into the teaching profession.

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