Teresa Perkins, program coordinator of Simply Delicious Restaurant located at North Pulaski High School, has been selected as Arkansas’s Educator Excellence Award Winner for 2012 from the Education Foundation of the National Restaurant Association (NRAEF). The NRAEF sponsors ProStart, the restaurant management and culinary arts program students at NPHS participate and compete in. (They placed second this year in the Management Division and third in Culinary at the state competition.) Perkins will be honored at an awards ceremony during the National Restaurant Associations Annual Trade Show to be held in Chicago May 4 – 7.