2017 Classroom Grants Recipients

Eve Carson Service Learning Grant ($1000)

·  Jillian Gordon – Clarke Central HS – “Combating Food Deserts through Garden Based Education”

Sara Orton Glickman Collaborative Project-Based Learning Grant ($1000)

·  Julie Throne – Cedar Shoals HS – “Cedar Shoals Fish House”

C.B. Lord General Classroom Grant ($1000)

·  Carrie Maxey – Chase Street ES – “The Past in the Present: Discussing History through Historical Fiction Book Clubs”

Friends of Eve Carson General Classroom Grant ($1000)

·  Brittany Moore – Cedar Shoals HS – “Learning and Growing through Living”

Mary and Harold P. Horton Elementary School General Classroom Grant ($500)

·  Jennifer Biddle – Whit Davis ES – “Building at Whit Davis”

Lane Turner Norton Literacy Grant ($500)

·  Kelly Hocking – Barrow ES – “Increasing Reading Fluency through the Art of Shadow Puppet Plays”

Jenny Penney Oliver General Classroom Grant ($500)

·  Claude Gonzalez – Clarke Central HS – “Outdoors/Indoors”

Todd Cooper Memorial Grant for Technology and Equipment ($500)

·  Jennifer Biddle – Whit Davis ES – “Coding with Ozobots”

Carol Ann Colquitt Special Education Grant ($500)

·  Erika Douglas Greene – Gaines ES – “Project REAL”

Jimmy Morris Memorial Fine Arts Grants ($500 each)

·  Melanie Powers – Whitehead Road ES – “Music to Go”

·  Rosemary Milsap – Cedar Shoals HS – “Lights Up! A Musical Theater Production Project”

General Classroom Grants ($500 each)

·  Hilary Ruston – Coile MS – “Robotic Cougars Enter HydroDynamics”

·  Sarah Parido – Burney-Harris-Lyons MS – “Guitars for BHL Students Sounds Finger ‘Pickin’ Good”

·  Chris Camp – Winterville ES – “Drumming Rhythmic Concepts”

General Classroom Grants ($250 each)

·  Sarah Walls – Gaines ES – “LID Classroom Buddies”

·  Shaugnessy McCann – Hilsman MS – “Physics is a Ball”

Arthur Moog Middleton Memorial Media Center Grants ($250 each)

·  Kerry Hogan – Cedar Shoals HS

·  Lindy Weaver – Clarke Central HS