Catamount School teacher recipient of Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award
WCU Stories March 11, 2021
Amanda Clapp
Amanda Clapp, of Sylva, has received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers, which recognizes outstanding teachers in the North Carolina public primary and secondary schools.
Clapp is a science teacher at the
Catamount School, the laboratory middle school operated by Western Carolina University in partnership with Jackson County Schools. Additionally, she serves as an instructor of science education methods for the university.
The award will provide $175,000 over five years for her project “Building Bridges: Using STEM to Cross the Rural-Urban Divide.”