Stephanie Chick, who will graduate in the spring of 2012, will be presented with the Outstanding Future Alumni award. The honor was given in recognition of her exemplary service to the campus community and her distinguished career as a student at UMFK.

Chick is president of the Ecology Committee and the senior class. She is an active member in Student Senate and in 2009 -2011 served as president. She planned and organized many student activities.

She has served on the UMFK President's Cabinet, the UMFK Presidential Search Committee, the Scholar Symposium Committee, EMPAC Committee, and the University of Maine System's Board of Trustees' Representative Search. Chick also worked on campus as a tour guide with the Admissions office.

Chick also is on the UMFK Bengal Dance Team and currently is working on a UMFK Greenhouse that took shape this past summer. The greenhouse will soon produce organic vegetables, which will be purchased by food service on the University. She has been working on a project to determine the heartiness of vegetables in an unheated environment in northern Maine.

In June 2011, she was accepted to the Maine NEW Leadership program that was hosted by the University of Maine in Orono.

Chick is working completing a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies with a concentration in social policy and political activism in May of 2012.

Chick is from Lisbon, Maine and her parents are Scott and Maureen. She has one sister, Jennifer, who also is in college at the University of Maine at Farmington.