AEA awards scholarships
March 18, 2008
The Andover Education Association (AEA) has announced its annual
Student Teacher Scholarships for the 2007-08 School year.
Andrea Camacho and Tara Scribner will each receive a $300
scholarship from the AEA.
Andrea Camacho is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin,
and a graduate of Andover Central High School. Her parents are
Marla and Hector Camacho. She is currently completing her K-12
certification and student teaching at Pflugerville High School and
Park Crest Middle School in Pflugerville, Texas, and her
cooperating teachers are OD Wilson and Rick Lucio. Majoring in
music studies, instrumental emphasis on bassoon performance and
teacher certification, she is the president of the University of
Texas Student Music Educators’ Association and UT Chapters of TMEA
and MENC. While at Texas, she has studied bassoon under the
tutelage of Kristin Wolfe Jensen and performed in chamber music
festivals in New Hampshire, the Czech Republic, and in Napa Valley
with the UT Wind Ensemble. This summer, she will perform a month
long tour of Europe with the UT Wind Ensemble performing their
newly commissioned work by John Corigliano, his Third Symphony
Circus Maximus. She currently holds a studio of ten middle school
and high school bassoonists in the Austin area and plans to teach
high school band in Texas.
Tara Scribner graduated from Andover High School in 2004. During
high school she was active in the marching band, the drama
department, and also the school newspaper. She was also active in
her church youth group, and participated in several mission trips
to various parts of Eastern United States and Mexico. Tara has
spent the last four years at Kansas State University majoring in
elementary education. During her last two summers she worked full
time as a camp counselor at a boy scout camp in Kansas City and an
arts camp in New Jersey. During spring break of 2007 Tara
participated in an alternative spring break program in New Orleans,
where she helped paint houses that were damaged by Katrina. Tara is
currently in Manhattan doing her student teaching in a first grade
classroom that is primarily ELL. She will graduate this May.
Congratulations to these two fine future teachers. We are proud to
call them Andover grads, and the AEA is excited to be able to help
them financially as they finish their educational journey.
