Kimball High School's Pedersen Receives NSCS Counseling Excellence Award
LINCOLN – The Nebraska State College System (NSCS) has named Chauncey Pedersen the 2016 NSCS Counseling Excellence Award recipient. Pedersen, who has been the guidance counselor at the Kimball Junior and Senior High School since 2008, also coaches girls’ basketball. Pedersen worked at Mitchell, Nebraska, as an elementary teacher and coach for football and girls’ basketball before taking the counseling position at Kimball.
The Counseling Excellence Award was created to honor high school guidance counselors for exemplary service and commitment to students. Students at Chadron, Peru and Wayne State Colleges have the opportunity to nominate high school counselors for the award. Pedersen was honored at the annual Nebraska School Counselors’ Academy in Kearney, Nebraska, in early November.
Pedersen was recommended by students at Chadron State College who said Pedersen was a helpful, amazing counselor.
On behalf of the NSCS Board of Trustees, Lisa Stein, director of admissions at Chadron State College, presented Pedersen with a thank you gift and a plaque commemorating the honor. Stein also shared with the audience that Pedersen earned two degrees from Chadron State: a bachelor of arts in elementary education and a master of education in school counseling.
Pedersen thanked the NSCS and his colleagues for the recognition.
“Getting this award really means a lot to me, especially when you think about all the great counselors that are out there and also deserving of this award. It is a great feeling knowing that you are appreciated and were able to help those students when they were in high school getting ready to make that big jump for the next chapter in their lives,” Pedersen said. “We do it for the kids.”
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