Apologia Announces 2008 Scholarship Winner

08.18.2008

Joshua Kampfe Wins the Mike Pence Award for Academic Excellence

Each year, Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. gives the Mike Pence Award for Academic Excellence to an Indiana student who has been homeschooled throughout his or her high school years and plans to attend a four-year college or university. Named after Indiana’s second-district Congressman (a champion of family-related causes like home education), the award is designed to recognize academic excellence within Indiana’s homeschooling community. Since its inception in 1998, the program has provided $44,000 to outstanding homeschooled students to help them further their educational goals. Currently, the award recipient receives $2,000 per year for a total of four years.

Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. is pleased to announce that this year’s recipient is Joshua Kampfe, son of Kristen and David Kampfe. Joshua has been homeschooled in Fort Wayne, Indiana for the past 9 years and has an impressive list of accomplishments, including having completed 20 hours of college credit while still in high school. He has also won awards in the Indiana Regional Future City Competition, has received the National Merit Letter of Commendation, and is a member of the National Honors Society. Already an accomplished computer game designer, he plans to study computer art at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne in the hopes of working in the field of computer animation.