(posted on July 26, 2009)
A $15,000 grant from the Waccamaw Foundation and the Knight Foundation has enabled Horry County Schools to award mini-grants to teachers for projects and programs to enhance 21st Century Skills. Twenty teachers’ applications were selected among 49 submissions.
Below is a list of mini-grant recipients with a description of projects:
- Bianca Bashor, Burgess Elementary School, to develop inquiry based science workstations for kindergarten;
- Mary Beth Bennett, St. James Middle School, to create e-lessons to teach students to access information in the media center and access electronic resources available via the Internet with their home computer;
- Terra Bodkins, North Myrtle Beach Primary School, to create electronic portfolios of student work;
- Janice Camp, Adult Education, to purchase language exercises for adult learners;
- Robin Donaldson, Green Sea Floyds High School, to purchase a document camera to allow for the classroom display during instruction;
- Sherry Flowers, Aynor High School, to create original artworks and use technology to transfer original artwork onto tee-shirts to promote fine arts;
- Etta Greene, Green Sea Floyds High, to allow students to enhance speaking, writing, research and reading skills as they to respond to real life situations and make decisions using flip cameras, mock interview, and video journals;
- Tara Hannan, Loris Elementary School, to purchase equipment for digital learning;
- Rebecca Hinson, Green Sea Floyds High School, to purchase a document camera;
- Anthony Kroll, Adult Education, to purchase postsecondary study guides for adult education students planning to pursue a college degree or serve in the military;
- Kimberly Lawson, Myrtle Beach Primary School, to purchase recorded books;
- Linda Leisen, Pee Dee Elementary School, to purchase recorded books;
- Lyndsey Martin, Myrtle Beach High School, to enable students to produce video segments while applying content knowledge;
- Peggy McGill, Aynor High School, students will make tee-shirts to help learn new vocabulary;
- Charles Mercavich, Black Water Middle School, to purchase hand drums for a world drumming course;
- Dawne Oliver, Conway Elementary School, to purchase a document camera for shared reading and writing activities;
- Angie Smith, Burgess Elementary School, students will create standards-based short videos to enhance the displays in the Burgess Elementary School Museum;
- Marsha Smith, Homewood Elementary School, students will use microphones, webcams, blogs and digital cameras to make videos and communicate with each other and others across the country;
- Byrn Tomaro, Loris Elementary School; for amplification systems to improve the listening and learning environment of at-risk students; and
- Sean Uthe, the Academy for Technology and Academics, to teach students the theory behind renewable energy sources of wind, solar, and fuel cell technology.
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