Andrew Stickings, a graduate from the class of 1994, will be presented with the Outstanding Young Alumni award. Stickings, the Outstanding Young Alumni recipient, grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has taught in the area for 15 years since graduating from UMFK.

Andrew currently is a fifth grade teacher at Ecole Grosvenor Wentworth Park School.

Teaching ran in Andrews' family. His dad was the principal of Queen Elizabeth High and his brother Tim also is a teacher and UMFK alumni.

Andrew has taught with compassion and creativity. He motivates his students through various teaching strategies and approaches his most popular and rewarding to date being through the use of file making and the production of high quality movies.

The parents of the students he teaches have nothing but high praise for his style for encouraging, motivating and molding these young lives.

With his guidance and encouragement, his students have created various films on history and the environment and have even gone so far as to win national awards for their work. Andrew loves to travel and learns as much as he can about various places and people, happily sharing his love with his students.

Andrew toured the Battlefields of France with a group of teachers in 2007 and enjoyed sharing that experience with his students. He has been a hockey and soccer coach through the years.

Andrew is married to Alison (a librarian) and they have two children, Ainslie (4 yrs), and Oliver (2).