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Chapter News
AQP Chapter Teams With Local ASQ Section to Award
$1,000 Scholarship
 Submitted by: JoKay Haberstok,
AQP “Quest for Quality” chapter,
Richland, WA.
The AQP “Quest for Quality” chapter,
in conjunction with ASQ’s Columbia Basin
Section (614), is pleased to announce its 2002
scholarship recipient is Bethany Tara Samuelson. The
$1,000 award was presented at a joint dinner meeting
on June 11.
Samuelson, who resides in Kennewick, WA, graduated
from Richland High School. She’s attending
Seattle Pacific University where she plans to major
in pre-law. She was valedictorian of her class and
was named a Washington State Scholar. She also
received the Best Attorney Award three times in the
past two years in mock-trial competitions.
This marked the third year the AQP chapter worked
with the local ASQ section to review applications and
award a scholarship to a deserving high school
senior. This year there were nine applications from
students attending seven different high schools in
the area.
Students were asked to address the following in
their written essays, which were limited to three
single-spaced pages:
- How can quality processes, tools, and
techniques be used in the educational system to
accomplish the following:
a) Improve the educational environment for
all students and teachers.
b) Produce students who are well educated
and prepared to either continue their higher
education or enter the work force.
Applicants were also required to be specific about
the kinds of tools (e.g., team building,
communications, root cause analysis, comparisons, and
benchmarking) they would recommend and why. Resources
were provided, including Web addresses for ASQ, AQP,
and other quality-related sites to assist students in
researching materials for their essays.
A panel of AQP/ASQ-selected judges carefully
reviewed each application. The team assigned an
overall percentage score to each application. Then,
individual and team scores were discussed and the
award recipient was chosen using a team consensus
process. Applications were evaluated using the
following criteria: scholastics (25%), leadership and
professional character (25%), and the written essay
(50%).
Samuelson presented her essay at the dinner
meeting. More information about the joint scholarship
award and a copy of her essay are available on the
chapter’s Web site at http://www.3-cities.com/~gates/AQPQuest.htm
. Click on “Scholarship.”
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