56 WCPSS Students Named NC Teaching Fellows

May 3, 2010 – Fifty-six Wake County Public School System high school seniors have been named North Carolina Teaching Fellows and 22 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 56 Teaching Fellows attend 18 different WCPSS high schools. Broughton and Sanderson high schools had six students earn the scholarships. There were five Fellows at Green Hope and Wakefield high schools. There were four at Enloe, Holly Springs and Middle Creek.

The 56 WCPSS Teaching Fellows include:

Katia Martinez	Athens Drive High School
Kelly Ann Womack	Athens Drive High School
Hannah Faith Burke	Broughton High School
Caeley Aidan Kane	Broughton High School
Bradley Thomas McClure	Broughton High School
Sarah Cathleen O'Grady	Broughton High School
Anna Stuart Sprecher	Broughton High School
Mary Alice Sprinkle	Broughton High School
Kalavik Anne McNamara	Cary Senior High
Elias Max Orbon	Cary Senior High
Han Kyoul Park	Cary Senior High
Porcelain Raquelle Cheek	Enloe Magnet High School
Lauren Katherine Kepke	Enloe Magnet High School
Adam Andrew Raby	Enloe Magnet High School
Gabrielle Shantel Turgeon	Enloe Magnet High School
Bethany Diane Irwin	Fuquay Varina High School
Casey McLeod Nickalson	Garner Magnet High School
Ashley Danielle Nickens	Garner Magnet High School
Ashley Marie Byrd	Green Hope High School
Andrea Alison Estes	Green Hope High School
Linelle Jade Gorman	Green Hope High School
Leigh Alexis Iler	Green Hope High School
Bryan Anthony Warwick	Green Hope High School
Amanda Ashleigh Carmenate	Holly Springs High School
Tyler Jordan Ellzey	Holly Springs High School
John Tyler Farrell	Holly Springs High School
Julia Kathryn Lawless	Holly Springs High School
Matthew Alan Currin	Knightdale High School
Jasmyn LaTrese Graham	Knightdale High School
Elizabeth Marie Hawryluk	Leesville Road High School
Pierre Eugene Lourens	Leesville Road High School
Jenna Corinne Polleck	Leesville Road High School
Kyle Matthew Boyette	Middle Creek High
Lauren Amber Bullock	Middle Creek High
Melissa Susseth Ordonez	Middle Creek High
Brandon J. Williams	Middle Creek High
Samuel James Carter	Millbrook Magnet High School
Dorothy Rochelle Burden	Panther Creek High School
Kelly Nicole Ottaway	Panther Creek High School
Andrea Restrepo	Panther Creek High School
Elizabeth Ellen Ammons	Sanderson High School
Rachel Elizabeth Duffus	Sanderson High School
Jessica Rachel Litz	Sanderson High School
Katherine Ann Meeks	Sanderson High School
Samuel Rayford Pearce	Sanderson High School
Hannah Elise Thornton	Sanderson High School
Christina Dianne Goodson	Southeast Raleigh Magnet High
Jessica Briana Peacock	Southeast Raleigh Magnet High
Victoria Monique Jones	Wake Early College for Health and Sciences
Brooke Ashley King	Wake Early College for Health and Sciences
Mariah Elizabeth Richards	Wake Forest-Rolesville High
Mitchell John Fekaris	Wakefield High School
Erin Kay Meyer	Wakefield High School
Elizabeth Dale Oestreich	Wakefield High School
Burton Joseph Westermeier	Wakefield High School
Colin Russell Williams	Wakefield High School

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

Alternates from WCPSS high schools include Kelsey Alanna Shea, Kjersti Cecile Sigler and Erin Trythall Wilson of Apex High; Sarah Kathryn Davis of Broughton High; Carrie Susanne Barbour of East Wake School of the Arts; Clare Angela Vestal of Enloe Magnet High; Lydia Dawn Jones of Fuquay Varina High; Kylie Kilkenny Chalker, Calais Rebecca Johnson, Corey Wayne Roe, Katherine Rose White and Bethany Rowena Wilcox of Green Hope High; Brittany Alexandria Coley of Knightdale High; Sarah Beth Duncan and Kathryn Elaine Fair of Leesville Road High School; Allison Rebecca Ehinger of Middle Creek High; Emily Ann Bower, Alan Everett Chandler and Jenna Leigh McBrayer of Millbrook Magnet High; Laura Elizabeth Stiegler of Sanderson High; Ashley Elizabeth Brandenburg of Southeast Raleigh Magnet High; and Alyssa Jo Ponsolle of Wake Forest-Rolesville 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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