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In all, the cooperative awarded $30,121 Thursday and Friday to winning teachers and their team members in the fifth annual Bright Ideas grant program. The money comes from utility customers who agree to round up their monthly bills to the nearest dollar. Those extra cents go into the grant fund.
This year, 40 grants will benefit more than 6,800 students in southern Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties, according to a cooperative news release.
Representatives from the cooperative and the trust greeted teachers with balloons, gift bags and their checks at each school. Next month, the cooperative will host a luncheon at Palmetto Electric's New River facility off U.S. 278 to honor the teachers and their administrators.
The cooperative invited teachers earlier this year to submit proposals for innovative classroom projects. Last month, 110 grant applications, totaling more than $97,700, were received from teachers in the three counties.
Southern Beaufort County winners, their projects and schools:
• Leslie Hunter, Writing Experiences, Cross School
• Ashley Holmes, Minds in Motion, H.E. McCracken Middle School
• Ann Nienow, Number Nights, Hilton Head Christian Academy
• Denise Ondishko, World Music Sets the Base for World Knowledge, Hilton Head Island Early Childhood Center
• Colleen Beck, Geocaching, Hilton Head Island International Baccalaureate School Elementary
• Dolphine Mullen, Feed Me!, Hilton Head Island IB School Elementary
• Ansley Westbrook, Good Vibrations, Hilton Head Island IB School Elementary
• Kathryn Weatherhead, Digital Microscopy Training for Students and Volunteers, Hilton Head Island High School
• Barbara Burckart, Let's Get Active!, Hilton Head Island Middle School
• Sarah Benedik, Physics Blast!, Hilton Head Preparatory School
• Kim Kachmann-Geltz, Learning by Listening, Hilton Head Preparatory School
• Kathryn Ramseur-Riley, Copper Etching with Chemistry and Art, Hilton Head Preparatory School
• Tiffany Santini, Let's Learn Spanish in Costa Rica!, Hilton Head Preparatory School
• Jill Diaz, A Child's Organic Snack Garden, May River Montessori
• Ellen Latimer, "Principal's Picks," Okatie Elementary School
Jasper County winners, their projects and schools:
• Steve Shamblen, Enhancing Technology Availability to Disadvantaged Students, Beaufort-Jasper ACE
• Althea Wigfall, Something Smells Fishy, Hardeeville Elementary School
• Mary Walker, Concrete Real World Application in Education, Hardeeville Middle/High School
• Shirley Peeples, I've Got Your Back!, Ridgeland Elementary School
• Jane Ryans, Buzz Fever, Ridgeland Middle School
• Karen Creech, My Vote Counts!, Thomas Heyward Academy
