Posted on April 3, 2001 at 12:35 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — The Alabama Association for Young Children recently named Decatur native Candace Kuby, 22, of Vestavia, as “Early Childhood Education Undergraduate of the Year” during its recent state conference in March. She is the first University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) student to win the award, which is presented annually to a student in recognition for their work and leadership in the community.

For more than two years, Kuby, a senior early childhood education major, worked at the science museum, McWane Center, in Birmingham, where she led tours for children ages 6 and under. She also led McWane’s overnight camp-ins on weekends, conducted science experiments with groups of children who visited the museum and taught science workshops for teachers and parents of young children. She taught some of the workshops with her mother, Pat Kuby, Ph.D., a professor of early childhood education at Athens State University.

In addition to her accomplishments at McWane, Kuby was recently accepted to the prestigious Bank Street College in New York City, where she will study for her master’s degree in early childhood and elementary education. The Bank Street College is known as one the nation’s top graduate schools in early childhood education. Kuby will begin classes this fall.

Kuby is the daughter of Carl and Pat Kuby of Decatur.