Virginia Teach Noyce Scholarship Program
What was Virginia Teach?
Virginia Teach represented a partnership between the Virginia Tech Department of Mathematics, School of Education; Montgomery County and Roanoke City Public Schools; and New River, Southwest Virginia, and Virginia Western community colleges to increase the number and quality of new secondary school mathematics teachers. The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program was developed to meet these goals.
Who was eligible?
Candidates were required to:
- Be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident alien
- Be interested in a career in teaching
- Become a math major or enter the MAEd program in the School of Education
- Agree to teach in a high-needs school after graduation
- They complete the online application. The application included three essay questions (200 words max.).
- Candidates also submitted wo faculty letters of recommendation citing personal and academic merits Of these, at least one letter had to be from a mathematics professor.
Frequently asked questions about these requirements
How did candidates apply?
Scholarship Details
The Virginia Teach program provided scholarships to VT mathematics majors who completed the School of Education's teacher certification program. Click here to learn about the Mathematics Education Program, including a Sample plan of study.
One-year scholarship awards of up to $12,500 were awarded, to help students fund their masters year in the VT Math Ed program. Graduates left with a Masters of Arts in Education, and Virginia state teaching licensure for secondary school mathematics.
Noyce scholarship recipients agreed to teach for two years in a high-needs school for every one year they were funded by the scholarship. To this day, there remain high-needs schools in nearly every county in the state.
Scholars also served various leadership roles in the math education program, occasionally attending conferences, counseling peers about careers in teaching, and forming a community with other Noyce scholars.