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NAPP awards 8 of our students Photoshop World scholarships!

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

I’m thrilled to announce that we received word from NAPP today that 8 Valencia students were awarded scholarships to attend Photoshop World. Every year NAPP holds this 3 day conference twice a year and it seems as though just about every other year they come back to Orlando to hold a conference. After attending several conferences myself and having many of our students awarded this scholarship in past years I didn’t hesitate to do the same this year.

With as busy as I’ve been juggling so much, last week I found my self scrambling to put together the final nomination forms for each student I nominated. It’s an opportunity I couldn’t pass up devoting a little of my time towards knowing how much it will impact my students lives. I wish I could have sent all my students, but unfortunately they have a limit on the number of scholarships being awarded so I went through those students I have taught or worked along side the last couple of semesters and found several who demonstrated a strong level of talent, motivation, and/or will to go above and beyond the expectations. So I’m thrilled to say that after nominating the following students they ALL were awarded Photoshop World scholarships:

  • Aaron Fischer
  • Janae Britt
  • Kayla Hernandez
  • Stacy Frank
  • Jeff Janelle
  • Erin McLain
  • Brian Nutt
  • Val Melo

Congrats guys! I’ll be sure to email you all soon with an update…get ready for an awesome experience at Photoshop.

A big thanks again to Scott Kelby and the folks at NAPP – you guys have done an amazing job helping me encourage some our most deserving students.

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Comments

  • Posted: March 3, 2010 15:16

    Aaron Fischer

    I'm Stoked! big congrats to everyone else!!
  • Posted: March 3, 2010 16:25

    Jeff Janelle

    I'm totally psyched for this! I'll second what Aaron said...congrats to everyone else! And big thanks to Amanda for taking the time out of her schedule to recognize us. It means a lot!
  • Posted: March 3, 2010 18:38

    kristy pennino

    awesome amanda! congratulations to everyone! you will totally enjoy this conference!! :-)
  • Posted: March 8, 2010 15:26

    Meg

    Have a great time!