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TURNER — Audrey Varney, of Turner, has been chosen as a recipient of the White-Reinhardt Scholarship, one of 10 teachers and classroom volunteers nationwide to receive the honor.
Varney is a senior atthe University of Maine in Farmington, where she is on the dean’s list, and plans on being an elementary teacher. She has also done extensive volunteer work, including an internship with the Maine Cooperative Extension / Maine 4H, teaching STEM lessons to children.
The scholarship, from the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture, awards the $1,500 scholarships for recipients to attend the National Ag in the Classroom Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 23-26. The conference helps educators from across the nation learn how to incorporate real-life agricultural applications into science, social studies, language arts, math and nutrition lessons. Scholarship recipients were judged on their past use of innovative programs to educate students about agriculture as well as plans to implement information gained at the NAITC conference in their own lesson plans and share the information with other teachers and volunteer educators. Aside from Varney, this year’s recipients came from Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, North Carolina, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota and Tennessee.
PHOTO: Audrey Varney (Submitted photos)
