Presidential Awards finalists named
Butler County Times Gazette
Three mathematics educators and three science educators have been named 2021 state finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Kansas had seven mathematics applicants and 11 science applicants. There were two nominees from Butler County school districts Gavin Wuthrich of Frederic Remington High School, Remington-Whitewater USD 206 was nominated in mathematics while JD Hand of Augusta High School, Augusta USD 402 was nominated in science.
The 2021 state finalists for mathematics are Melissa Schoepf, Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior-Senior High School, Salina Diocese; Elizabeth Self, Kepley Middle School, Ulysses Unified School District 214; and Kimberly Tate, Chisholm Middle School, Newton USD 373.
Melissa Schoepf, a mathematics teacher at Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior-Senior High School in Hays, was among six educators named last week as 2021 state finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Three mathematics educators and three science educators were named 2021 state finalists for those awards, which are administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. What an awesome accomplishment! Thomas More Prep-Marian said of Schoepf in a post Friday on its website.
The six state finalists will compete to be named one of the two national finalists from Kansas, for which there will be one each in the areas of mathematics and science, the Kansas Department of Education said in a news release Friday. Each national finalist will receive $10,000, it said.
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Ideal career: Psychiatrist
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LAWRENCE Four outstanding juniors will be the University of Kansas nominees for Harry S. Truman Scholarships.
The students are competing for the prestigious national awards, which provide up to $30,000 for graduate study. The awards are given to college juniors for leadership in public service. They are highly competitive, with only about 60 Truman Scholars named nationwide each year.
This year’s KU nominees:
Radhia Abdirahman, majoring in global & international studies and human biology (applied behavioral sciences)
Rachel Hall, majoring in global & international studies and political science and minoring in intelligence and national security studies
Gustavo Murillo-Espinoza, majoring in molecular, cellular & developmental biology and a minor in Latino/a studies
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