Opportunity for College Students in Rec Therapy/ Therapeutic Rec.

College students in a Therapeutic Recreation or Recreational Therapy degree program can apply for a student scholarship to attend the American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s 2010 conference. It is called the “Peg Connolly Scholarship,” which is named in honor of the first President of ATRA, Dr. Peg Connolly. This year’s conference will be in Spokane, Washington this year. Applicants must be a student-member of ATRA in order to be considered.

Here is a link for the application. Please tell college students in RT/TR degree programs about this opportunity.

http://atra-online.com/associations/10488/files/PegConnolly2010.pdf

I, Danny Pettry had won one of the 8 Peg Connolly Scholarship awards in 2004 while I was a graduate student in Recreational Therapy. I had an opportunity to go to the conference which was in Kansas City, Missouri that year. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet many recreational therapists across the United States and around the world. I still keep in touch with many of these people today by email.