Local resident receives $70,000 Bodenhamer Fellowship

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Local Mountain Home resident Anna Fisher has been selected as one of this year’s six recipients across the state for the $70,000 Bodenhamer Fellowship as an incoming freshman to the University of Arkansas. The award is considered one of the most prestigious the university offers to undergraduates.Fisher says she learned about the award, after her interview earlier this spring, from an e-mail she calls the most exciting she’d ever had.

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Parts of the interview stood out to Fisher.

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Fisher plans to study mechanical engineering and her interest in the field has sent her to Washington D.C. to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to support STEM legislation and to Shanghai, China to teach robotics workshops to local students.

She says she believes her community involvement was important because other candidates were on a level playing field academically.

Her extra work turned out to be more valuable than she anticipated.

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In addition to covering the normal cost of attending the university, the fellowship may be used to study abroad, to attend professional and educational conferences and for research and special equipment.

Fisher says she can’t list them all, but would like to thank everyone who contributed to her success.

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