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EDS Undergraduate Awards

Congratulations, Class of 2024!

EDS is excited to announce a set of awards to recognize outstanding graduating undergraduate EDS students! Read more about our recipients for the Class of 2024.
  • Paige Nguyen

    Paige Nguyen

    Award: Education Studies Outstanding Student Award
    Major/Minor: Education Sciences Major and Human Developmental Sciences Minor
    Career Goals: Elementary school teacher and administrative leader
    Favorite Inspirational Quote: "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible!" – Audrey Hepburn
  • Venus Spann

    Venus Spann

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Secondary Education Award
    Major/Minor: Linguistics, Cognition & Language Major and Single Subject Minor
    Career Goals: Secondary school teacher and pursue a PhD
    Favorite Inspirational Quote: "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." – Walden, Henry David Thoreau
  • Esther Bueno

    Esther Bueno

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Elementary Education Award
    Major/Minor: Education Studies Major and Psychology Minor
    Career Goals: Elementary school teacher
    Favorite Inspirational Quote: "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
  • Kole Kistler

    Kole Kistler

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Education Award
    Major/Minor: Education Sciences Major and Critical Gender Studies Minor with Honors Research
    Career Goals: University professor and teach about queer theory, intersectional feminism, educational policy, and disability justice
    Favorite Inspirational Quote: "Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who you are– so you can more wisely build the future.” – Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
  • Geovanni Aceves

    Geovanni Aceves

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Service-Learning/PAL Award
    Major/Minor: Mathematics & Education Sciences Double Major and Public Service Minor
    Career Goals: Secondary mathematics teacher
    Favorite Inspirational Quote: "You can often view glimpses of ingeniousness not as inexplicable miracles, but as the residue of experience; and when you do, the idea of genius goes from being mesmerizing to instead being actively inspirational." – Grant Sanderson

Congratulations, Class of 2023!

Read more about our recipients for the Class of 2023.

 

  • Alexandra Pina

    Alexandra Pina

    Award: Education Studies Outstanding Student Award
    Major/Minor: Double major in Education Sciences and Linguistics: Language Studies (Spanish)
    Career Goals: Middle school spanish and dual language teacher
    Favorite Inspirational Quote: “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” -Marcus Aurelius
  • Angelie Hoang

    Angelie Hoang

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Secondary Education Award

    Major/Minor: Major in Mathematics and minor in Mathematics Education 

    Career Goals: Secondary mathematics teacher

    Favorite Inspirational Quote: "To love through and because of mathematics is to build hopefulness, to cultivate creativity, to promote reflection, and to foster a thirst for deep knowledge and deep investigation.” -Francis Su
  • Chenelle McClain

    Chenelle McClain

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Education Award

    Major/Minor: Linguistics and Education Studies

    Career Goals:To advocate for equity and equality in education.

    Favorite inspirational quote: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela
  • Johanna Kye

    Johanna Kye

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Elementary Education Award

    Major/Minor: Education Studies Major and Psychology Minor & Transnational Korean Studies Minor

    Career Goals: Elementary school teacher

    Favorite inspirational quote: "Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all." -Emily Dickinson
  • Tori McMillan

    Tori McMillan

    Award: Education Studies Excellence in Service-Learning/PAL Award
    Major/Minor: Double major in Psychology with a Specialization in Cognitive Psychology & Black Diaspora and African American Studies with a Minor in Education Studies
    Career goals: Elementary school teacher
    Favorite Inspirational Quote: “I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.” -Audre Lorde