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<\/p>\nI am so enthralled with the opportunity to be a Kenan Fellow this year. My life is continually blessed with amazing educators and scientists. I haven’t ever been involved in such an inspirational group of people.<\/p>\n
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I am proud to declare that I have worked at one of the best Middle Schools in North Carolina…Valley Springs Middle School<\/a> of Arden, NC since I graduated Appalachian State University in 2010.<\/a>\u00a0– I did take a short hiatus to get married.<\/p>\n Science is my passion, and I am happy to teach amazing 7th grade students a variety of scientific subjects.<\/p>\n Through my short few years of teaching, I have met and been encouraged by the most amazing educators. One such educator (my friend) encouraged me to apply for a Kenan Fellowship. I am so grateful that she supported me in applying for this tremendous opportunity.<\/p>\n I will forever be a student of life. Learning is one of my greatest passions; so, I suppose education is a promising profession for me. \ud83d\ude42 I want to inspire and be inspired by both the people and opportunities that I encounter\u00a0over the next year. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with scientists and be a scientist with my students as we study the world around us and report back to our Post-Doc, Dr. Julia Stevens<\/a>. My goals this year is to learn as much as I possibly can about being a scientist, about being an explorer, about educating others, and about encouraging others, as well as encouraging myself.<\/p>\n I am so enthralled with the opportunity to be a Kenan Fellow this year. My life is continually blessed with amazing educators and scientists. I haven’t ever been involved in such an inspirational group of people. I am proud to declare that I have worked at one of the best Middle Schools in North Carolina…Valley Springs Middle School of Arden,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WeRSoil\"](\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-lgohmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/238\/2016\/06\/image-1-e1467074075644-300x225.jpeg\")
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