With 41 applicants vying for only a few coveted positions, the selection committee was challenged in selecting members of  the 2012 NATS Intern Program as they narrowed an excellent field of applicants to twelve interns comprising the class of 2012. The 2012 class in5cludes teachers who primarily teach in university settings as well as those whose focus is the independent studio. Interns will work with master teachers George Shirley, Donald Simonson, Julia Faulkner, and Lisa Popeil and vocal literature coordinator, Cynthia Vaughn, at the Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado hosted by program alumnus Tiffany Blake June 12-22, 2012. Past President Scott McCoy is the NATS Intern Program Coordinator.

The NATS Intern Program Class of 2012 consists of Chuck Chandler (Rome, GA), Shauna Fallihee (Oakland, CA), Klaus Georg (Chicago, IL), Susan Hochmiller (Ft. Collins, CO), Hsin Yi Lin (Corpus Christi, TX), Elizabeth McDonald (Consecon, ON), Megan Pfeiffer Miller (Stuttgart, Germany), Emily Martin Moberly (Denver, CO), Cory Renbarger (Houghton, NY), Alissa Rose (Wellsboro, PA), Stacy Tappan (Chicago, IL), and Meredith Ziegler (Storrs, CT).

Interested in participating in the 2013 NATS Intern Program? Application materials will be available on the NATS website in late summer. If you are interested in contributing to the support of the Summer Intern program, donations may be made to the James McKinney Memorial Fund through the NATS Foundation.

"THIS is what continuing education is all about. Meeting amazing people in my beloved field and unashamedly stealing each other's ideas, concepts, methods, and knowledge… Making connections between seemingly unrelated concepts that suddenly reach a confluence so powerful you know it will revolutionize the pesky recurring pattern that Student ABC has been having trouble releasing. So much fabulousness we have to actually stretch our brains bigger to hold it all, and guess what? We are stretching." –Katy Peterson, 2011 NATS Intern