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With their top finishes, the teams will now prepare for the national conference, set for June 26-29 at Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">KWU seniors Bailey Mann, of Frost, Texas; Lauren Shaw, of Arlington, Texas;\u00a0Grace Hutchinson, of Manhattan, Kansas, and Kloe Young, of Bennington, Kansas, took first in the Public Service Announcement. Kyla Moore, of Centerville, Iowa, won the Interactive Bulletin Board Elementary contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">\u201cThis, obviously, is quite an accomplishment as to represent Kansas Wesleyan and the state of Kansas nationally at a conference,\u201d said Lori Brubaker, KWU assistant professor of Teacher Education.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">\u201cAs chapter sponsor, I couldn\u2019t be prouder. We are doing great things in education, and our students and their achievements (at Education Rising Kansas) are a prime example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Educators Rising Kansas is a network of students, teachers and education leaders who are working to recruit and prepare the next generation of highly skilled teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">For additional information on Educators Rising, please visit edrisingks.org.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Release by Dan Froehlich<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">This was the first year colleges were able to compete in the Educators Rising Kansas competition, previously open only to high schools.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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