Bastrop Education Foundation honors 25 “Rising Stars” and their mentors

Twenty Five outstanding Bastrop High School students—and the educators those students named as having made a significant difference in their lives—were celebrated on May 26  at the fifth annual Bastrop Education Foundation “Rising Stars” Banquet.

Held at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa, the event drew more than 250 parents, Foundation board members, Bastrop ISD officials, and Foundation sponsors.  The Rising Star program supports and recognizes excellence in student achievement and in the essential role that educators play.   The Foundation so proud of these students—both honorees and nominees—and of the recognized teachers and counselors.  Together they exemplify Bastrop’s best!”

Honored as “Rising Stars” for 2011 were 25 students selected from a field of 107 students nominated by Bastrop and Cedar Creek High School teachers as exemplary, in terms of academics and leadership as well as participation in extracurricular activities and community service.  

Each selected student was asked to identify the educator whom the student credits as having made a significant difference in the student’s academic success, served as a positive role model or mentor, or helped shape the student’s hopes for the future.  The students’ selections were also honored at the event.

This celebrates the connection students and their teachers make.  The Foundation believes this teacher-student connection has a profound impact on student achievement and lies at the heart of teaching excellence.

The 2011 “Rising Stars” and the educators they saluted are: