A Junction City High School graduate, Kathryn Westerhaus, is among 12 students at Fort Hays State University to be awarded the National Science Foundation’s Noyce Scholarship for the upcoming school year.

The scholarship is designed to help support high-achieving math and science students who want to become secondary or middle level teachers after graduation.

The scholarship is a ‘cost-of-attendance’ scholarship worth more than $13,000 per year and a stipend to attend state or regional conferences.

Students also enroll in a seminar class to discuss teaching in rural schools, attend a week-long field experience trip at a school in southwest Kansas, adnd are all members of the STEM-Ed Club at Fort Hays State University.

Westerhaus will be a senior majoring biology and secondary education. This is the second time she has received the Noyce scholarship.