Awards & Scholarship

Outstanding Music Educator
Each year, NWKMEA honors an outstanding music educator in three categories: Elementary, Middle/Junior High School and High School.

Honor Administrator
Members of NWKMEA have a special opportunity to nominate an administrator as a candidate for the NWKMEA Honor Administrator Award. This annual award recognizes those administrators who have demonstrated continuing leadership in developing, improving, and supporting music education within a wider commitment to arts education, i.e., music, theater, visual arts, and dance.

Julie Groom Memorial Scholarship
Each year, KMEA Northwest District awards up to three $500 scholarships to junior or senior college students who are majoring in music education.

William "Bill" Schick Memorial Scholarship
KMEA Northwest District will pay first or initial NAfME/KMEA membership dues for those teachers who have just completed their music education degree and will be in their first year of teaching in the Northwest District.