Mr. Kevin Whalen Named Agriscience Teacher Award Winner

The Agriscience Teacher Award recognizes agricultural instructors who have excelled with their classroom curriculum and activities in an attempt to provide students with the most up-to-date and beneficial knowledge for a future career in agricultural science areas. Wisconsin’s Agriscience Teacher of the Year is eligible to compete for national recognition at the National FFA Convention. The winner also receives a $150 check for their efforts.

STATE WINNER: Kevin Whalen, Arcadia

Mr. Whalen believes in taking traditional science practices and expanding them into a higher level of science that students at Arcadia High School may not have thought possible. Through his current agriscience curriculum, Kevin's students are able to make science connections linking to their physical and life sciences, chemistry and biotechnology concepts while meeting Wisconsin science and agriscience standards.

He also offers a wide array of classes and FFA activities that help students understand and grasp the different concepts that he is teaching. Along with taking traditional science to a new level, Mr. Whalen keeps up to date on new trends in agriscience by attending different workshops and conferences. He is then able to relate and teach his classes fresh information that will in turn prepare students for the 'real world.'

As the Wisconsin Agriscience Teacher of the Year, Whalen is eligible to compete for national recognition. Four national finalists will be selected in August and will receive money to purchase new equipment for their classrooms.

RUNNER-UP: Richard Henningfeld, Big Foot
  
  
AWARD SPONSOR: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Animal Sciences

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