15 Receive Student Teaching Scholarships for Spring 2004

Fifteen College of Education students have been awarded Student Teaching Scholarships for spring semester 2004.

The students, their hometowns and their departments are:
  • Melia Brooke Woods, Duluth,  communication sciences and disorders;
  • Nicholas Moon, Lawrenceville, physical education and sport studies;
  • Stephanie Gamble, Athens, speech language pathology;
  • Emily Moore, Martinez, language education;
  • Laura Rychly, Augusta, middle school education; 
  • Amy Elizabeth Lockwood, Lawrenceville, social science education;
  • John Thomas Maddox, Waycross, Spanish;
  • Lysa A. Sullivan, Athens, and Kristina Hamman, Conyers, elementary education;
  • Latessa Rose Bortner, Clermont, and Collene Bryan, Conyers, mathematics education
  • Jamie Bennett, Millwood,  Emily Foss, Augusta, and Kyle Andon Rhodes, Tifton, business education.
Scholarship recipients must be U.S. citizens, enrolled in an approved teacher program at the college and must demonstrate an intention to make a career in education in Georgia. Financial need is a primary requisite. Scholarships are awarded for full-time student teaching semester only. This year, 35 applications were reviewed and rated by a faculty committee.

Scholarship funding is $750 for each student teacher. Funding comes from UGA Foundation and Trust accounts.

Tuesday, October 28, 2003
WRITER: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
CONTACT: Anita Miller, 706/542-4047, amiller@coe.uga.edu