2025
2025 Annual Conference Award Winners
Awards & Scholarships
Recognizing excellence, leadership, and scholarly achievement in Family & Consumer Sciences.
2024
2024 Annual Conference Award Winners
Hillary Mehlhoff
•FCS Teacher of the YearHillary is currently a FACS teacher and FCCLA advisor at South Albany High School. She is deeply involved in her school and community, advocating for her students and helping them to pursue their goals and grow their leadership skills.
Chris Ward
•Distinguished Service AwardChris has been an advocate for FACS for more than 30 years. She served as the head of the Home Economics Education department at OSU and advised students. Chris led a task force around the curriculum work with the new name change of FCS in the late 90s.
2019
2019 Student Scholarship Recipients
Joseph Vanek
•Oregon State UniversityShea Looper
•Oregon State University2018
2018 Teacher of the Year
Sheila Lenker (center)
•Teacher of the Year2018
2018 Professional of the Year
Kelsey Hibbert
•Professional of the Year2018
2018 ORAFCS Community Service Award
Melissa Whiteman, ABC House
•ORAFCS Community Service Award2018
2018 Student Leadership Award & Scholarship
Joseph Vanek
•Student Leadership Award & Scholarship2018
2018 Student Leadership Award & Scholarship
Shea Looper
•Student Leadership Award & Scholarship2016
2016 Student Scholarship
Jessica Motter
•Student ScholarshipJessica Motter, student teacher at Philomath High School was awarded a student scholarship for Spring 2016. Jessica will be graduating and looking for a FACS position for Fall 2017!