Educator

Sara Clark, Ph.D. Sonoraville High School Calhoun, Georgia The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2013 $10,000 Agriscience Educator’s Award Columbus Scholar. Sara Clark grew up in Waycross, Georgia, working in a commercial greenhouse. She has taught agricultural education for over 20 years […]

Matthew B. Eddy Southeast Polk Community School District Pleasant Hill, IA The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2012 $10,000 Agriscience Educator’s Award Columbus Scholar. Matthew Eddy grew up in Osceola, Iowa, on a diversified crop and livestock farm with his parents and […]

Camilla C. Walck, Ph. D., NBCT International Baccalaureate Biology Teacher Princess Anne High School Virginia Beach, Virginia Camilla Walck is an educator that is dedicated to teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. Her passion for biology is contagious – engaging and exciting her students about the scientific world. For the past […]

Michele Sutton Tompkins Seneca Tioga BOCES Ithaca, New York The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2011 $10,000 Agriscience Educator’s Award Columbus Scholar. Michele Sutton grew up in Greenville, NY, on a small hobby farm with her parents and three siblings. She was […]

Melissa Braun Gillett Secondary School Gillett, Wisconsin The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2011 $10,000 Agriscience Educator’s Award Columbus Scholar. Melissa Braun’s passion for agriculture has always been a part of her life, as she was raised on a dairy farm in […]

Paul Heasley State College Area School District State College, Pennsylvania The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2011 $10,000 Agriscience Educator’s Award Columbus Scholar. Mr. Paul Heasley has taught Agricultural Sciences in grades 9th – 12th for 30 years. The program’s courses are […]

Coit Hendley Teacher Eleanor Roosevelt High School Greenbelt, Maryland Mr. Hendley has been teaching for 32 years, and is currently teaching five sections of AP Chemistry and one section of Research Practicum. He has developed the AP Chemistry program into one that involves three teachers, eight sections and 240 students. The program has been recognized […]

Leslie Brinson Biology Teacher North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Durham, North Carolina As an experienced teacher looking back on her career, Leslie sees the importance of activities outside the classroom–whether field trips, after-school research projects or science competitions. What these activities have in common is that the students are engaged, physically and mentally […]

Deborah Wasylik Teacher Dr. Phillips High School Orlando, Florida Creating curiosity in science class is important to Deborah Wasylik. She accomplishes this when she tells her students that before she became a teacher she had climbed inside a pyramid, jumped out of an airplane and sold drugs! She grew up with an adventurous family in […]

Lisa Konkel Agriscience Educator Big Foot Union High School Walworth, Wisconsin The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2010 $10,000 Agriscience Educator’s Award Columbus Scholar. Lisa Konkel grew up on a registered Holstein dairy farm, and was active in 4-H and FFA programs. […]