NCAFCS Awards & Scholarships

NCAFCS Awards & Scholarships
Nomination Forms for Awards and Scholarships.

• Professional of the Year Award, the highest honor given by the state association, recognizes members who have made outstanding achievements in family and consumer sciences; made significant contributions to the profession; and demonstrated sustained leadership and active involvement at the local, state and national levels as a longtime member of the profession. Eligibility: Actively employed in a family and consumer sciences related profession; or a current family and consumer sciences professional in home and community; or retired; consistent membership in AAFCS for 20 years or more.
• New Achievers Award recognizes emerging professionals who have exhibited the potential to make significant contributions to family and consumer sciences. Eligibility: Any AAFCS member who does not belong to the Student Unit, who has earned a family and consumer sciences degree, and who has completed three (3) to eight (8) years of service to the field is eligible to receive this award.
• Student Unit Award recognizes the pre-professional/graduate student who excels in academics; service to school and community; and leadership ability. Eligibility: Undergraduate or graduate Family and Consumer Sciences major who is a member of NCAFCS at the time of the nomination..
• Leader of the Year Award recognizes members who have made significant contributions to the family and consumer sciences profession through their involvement with AAFCS. Eligibility: Any AAFCS member who does not belong to the Student Unit and who has completed more than eight (8) years of service to the field
• Teacher of the Year Award recognizes exemplary FCS teachers who utilize cutting-edge methods, techniques, and activities to provide the stimulus for and give visibility to family and consumer sciences elementary and secondary education. Eligibility: Employed as a full time, permanent family and consumer sciences teacher in grades kindergarten through 12 (K-12), or full time permanent FCS Teacher who has retired within twelve months of the nomination; three current consecutive years of active membership in NCAFCS including the year of the nomination; created and runs a FCS program that exhibits creativity, innovation, and cutting-edge techniques and alignment with State or FCS National Standards focused on an original, expanded, or substantially modified traditional FCS content area, OR, a teaching emphasis consistently embedded in the nominee’s curriculum, i.e. service learning, technology, project based learning, STEM, communications. Recipients are eligible to compete at the national level.
• Augusta White Memorial Scholarship Fund is a memorial scholarship that was established to assist undergraduate students majoring in the areas of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Click on the link for the2023- 2024 Award Application: NCAFCS_AWARD_NOMINATIONS_2023-2024.pdf

Katherine B. Lyons Endowment