Ten high school seniors were named Doris and Ralph Klose Scholars following the 2017 Klose Scholars Day in November in the Corbin Education Center at Wichita State University.

The Klose Scholarship is for students pursuing a degree in math or science education in the College of Education. Students will receive the tuition, fees and a book stipend scholarship, estimated to be a total of $18,000, once they are admitted into the Teacher Education program at the beginning of their junior year at Wichita State.

Sixteen high school seniors from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas competed for the Klose Scholarship. Klose Scholars Day provided students with the opportunity to interview with College of Education faculty and current Klose Scholars, present a mini-lesson and participate in a group activity. In addition to the day’s event, students submitted an application which included two essays.

More scholarship dollars from the Klose fund were committed to this year’s Klose Scholars, who will start the Teacher Education program in the year 2020, as a reward to students who competed in Klose Scholars Day. The six other students who competed were awarded a $4,000 scholarship to be dispersed over their junior and senior year in the Teacher Education program.

This year’s recipients of the Doris and Ralph Klose Scholarship are:

Mira Bischoff
Goddard Eisenhower High School
Wichita

Kalie Dudeck
Augusta High School
Augusta

Kristen Geiger
Maize High School
Wichita

Amanda Hartshorne
Booker T. Washington High School
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Fernando Martinez
Wichita Southeast High School
Wichita

Adrianna Mead
Topeka High School
Topeka

Chase Owens
Shawnee Mission East High School
Overland Park

Arika Schroeder
Goddard Eisenhower High School
Goddard

Neil Terry
Oxford High School
Geuda Springs, Kansas

Abby Wiggett
Wichita Northwest High School
Wichita

The College of Education will hold a formal press conference involving the Klose Scholars and their guests at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12, in the Corbin Education Center.

Information regarding the Doris and Ralph Klose Scholarship and other College of Education scholarship opportunities can be found at www.wichita.edu/coedscholarship.