(Vienna High Press Release) Sydney Corzine, a senior at Vienna High School, has been selected as a Golden Apple Scholar. She is one of four inaugural state officers for Illinois Educators Rising organization and is the President of the VHS Future Educator Club.
As shared in the congratulatory email to Sydney, “This invitation to become a Golden Apple Scholar is a high honor. Nearly 2,000 students across Illinois have expressed interest by starting an application. You were selected in an intense and competitive process, and we feel confident in your potential to learn from our master practitioners to become a teacher who changes lives in an Illinois school of need.”
The Golden Apple program also includes scholar institutes that Sydney will attend. Sydney says she is excited about the focus of the institutes and that the phrasing of being a “rigorous, multi-week teacher preparation program that inspires, develops, and supports undergraduates to teach in schools-of-need” will be a huge step toward preparing her to have her own classroom one day.
Sydney is the first student from Vienna High School to be awarded as a Golden Apple Scholar.
VHS offers dual credit education classes, taught by Leslie Bradley, and at the end of this school year Sydney will have completed 12 college hours of education class, in addition to numerous dual credit hours in English, literature, government, and social work. Students in the education program at VHS complete observation hours at Vienna Grade School. Sydney has learned about a career in elementary education under the guidance of Mrs. Elaney Spore and Mr. Adam Hook.
Sydney is also on track to complete her College and Career Pathway Endorsements in Health and Human Services Education and Social Work.
Sydney plans on attending Southern Illinois University – Carbondale in the fall.
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