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Tonganoxie High School FFA advisors Beth Schartz and Zach Callaghan received the recognition last month pictured left at the Kansas Agricultural Educators Association’s Winter Symposium event in January at the Garden Inn Hotel in Hays.
Tonganoxie and McLouth schools were well presented during the awards ceremony at the Kansas Agricultural Educators Association Winter Symposium event in January at the Garden Inn Hotel in Hays.
Tonganoxie FFA consultants Zach Callaghan and Beth Schartz, as well as McLouth FFA consultant Nichole Hinrichsen have received Kansas Association awards for careers and Tech Ed Ideas Unlimited and professional.
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McLouth advisor Nichole Hinrichsen was named Young Teacher of the Year.
THS was also named outstanding high school/middle school program.
Hinrichsen, a THS graduate, was named Young Teacher of the Year.
Callaghan won the Turn the Key Award and placed first in Ideas Unlimited Ag Mechanics. He was also third in mechanics, as well as in public relations. And he ranked second in supervised farming experience.
Schartz finished first in public relations and second in resume.
Hinrichsen won first place in technology and the overall award.
Additionally, McLouth instructor Marie Umphenour has been accepted into the Curriculum for Agriculutral Science Education Institute for plant science. The highly competitive position provides professional development training, which will provide more agricultural science lessons, enabling more students for further science learning, which can be used in seventh- and eighth-grade exploratory agriculture, according to the website. of the school district.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
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New Teacher of the Year: Anita DeWeese
Young Teacher of the Year – Nicole Hinrichsen
Teacher of the Year – Laura Miller
Administrator of the Year: Chris Lackey
NAAE Awards
Exceptional Service by Carl Perkins – Lauren Van Allen
Outstanding Early Career Teacher – Melissa Zerr
Outstanding Agricultural Education Teacher – Lauren Van Allen
Outstanding Middle/Secondary Program – Tonganoxie
Mentor Teacher Award – Jacob Larison
Teacher Turn the Key – Zachary Callaghan
UNLIMITED IDEAS
Ag Mechanics
First: Zachary Callaghan
Second: Janet Gottstine
Third: Ashley Klozenbucher
Classroom
First: Laura Miller
Second: Meghan Strassburg
Third: Ashley Klozenbucher
Curriculum Vitae
First: Janet Gottstine
Second: Beth Schartz
Third: Zachary Callaghan
Technology
First: Nicole Hinrichsen
Second: Janet Gottstine
Third: Meghan Strassburg
Public relations
First: Beth Schartz
Second: Anita DeWeese
Third: Zachary Callaghan
Beginner teacher
First: Emma Johnson
FFA
First: Anna Williamson
Second: Ashley Klozenbucher
Third: Anita DeWeese
SAE
First: Anita DeWeese
Second: Zachary Callaghan
Third: Ashley Klozenbucher
General – Nicole Hinrichsen
Tonganoxie FFA breakfast is February 18th
The Tonganoxie FFA Chapter will kick off National FFA Week with its community breakfast later this month.
This year’s breakfast will be from 6 to 10 on February 18th at THS.
Tonganoxie FFA members receive SAE grants
Dalton Regehr, Emma Myers, Graham Foley, Grace Patterson and Isabelle Barker are among 60 Kansas FFA members who will receive SAE grants this year, it was announced last month.
Grants are used to initiate or enhance student supervised agricultural experience programs.
