Update: Grant-winning Beaufort County teachers, projects announced
Beaufort County School District teachers received more than $21,000 in grants from the Foundation for Education Excellence on Tuesday to pay or innovative classroom projects.
The foundation sent a "prize patrol" to 17 schools Tuesday to award a total of 34 grants, ranging from $162 for an individual teacher to $1,500 for a group.
The winners:
| Teacher | School | Project |
|---|---|---|
| John Cullinen | Battery Creek High | Reinventing Photography |
| Anthony Petrucci | Battery Creek High | Innovative Teacher Grant |
| Cheryl Connelly | Beaufort Middle | Civil War Inquiry Based Website Creation (Dr. Valerie Truesdale Innovative Teacher Grant Award) |
| Melanie Blanton | Beaufort Middle | Keeping it Classic: A Junior Classical League Club |
| Alayne Lawson | Bluffton Early Childhood Center | Building to Enhance Writing |
| Racheal Threadgill | Bluffton Middle | Scholastic Math Innovative Teacher Grant |
| Norma Evans, Lisa Pope, Kelly Pulaski & Willa Simpson | Coosa Elementary | Nothing could be finer than teaching SC History |
| Lynda Jernigan | Coosa Elementary | Get Graphic: The World in Worlds and Pictures |
| Beth Vargas-Giel | HHI School Creative Arts | Nutty About Language |
| Jennifer Smith | Hilton Head Elementary | Language Arts Differentiated Centers |
| Lena H. Beason | Hilton Head Elementary | Fascinating Biographies for Young Readers |
| Tara Cibula & Rebecca Stempel | Hilton Head Elementary | Raz-Kids App |
| Abby Mehle | Hilton Head Elementary | Waste Reduction Learning Resource |
| John Quindlen | Hilton Head High | Mini-sensor auto guidance control system |
| Matthew Pfeiffer | Hilton Head High | Practical Applications of Orienteering in the Lowcountry |
| Tiffanie Elrod | Hilton Head Middle | Literacy Improvement for Energetic Students |
| Brooke Mendenhall & Amy Fleury | MC Riley Elementary | Spheros Robotics Balls for Engaging Learners |
| Tammy Murphy | MC Riley Elementary | We're Going Green |
| Amy D Edwards | Mossy Oaks Elementary | Bringing DRAMA (the good kind) to 5th Grade |
| Suzi Prekop | Mossy Oaks Elementary | OSMO @ MOES |
| William James | Mossy Oaks Elementary | Wedging Wisdom |
| Bree Lauffer | Okatie Elementary | It's a Small World… Exploring the Microscopic World |
| Catherine May | Pritchardville Elementary | Planting the Seeds of STEM |
| Michelle Quisenberry, Jennifer Taylor & Lori Ulmer | Pritchardville Elementary | Imagination in 3D |
| Emalee Baker, Kristen Howell, Kyra Hartley, Jennifer Farmer, Sarah Crowley & Randi Harms | Red Cedar Elementary | To Red Cedar… And Beyond! |
| Randi Harms, Kristen Howell, Jenny Farmer, Sarah Crowley & Kyra Hartley | Red Cedar Elementary | If we plant it, they will come |
| Michelle Morrison | Red Cedar Elementary | "Talk to Me" |
| Eric Mohrman | River Ridge Academy | Story Starter: Incorporating Literacy through LEGO Stop Animation |
| Samantha Ford | River Ridge Academy | Mindware Madness |
| Peter Grabowski & Eric Mohrman | River Ridge Academy | RRA First LEGO League Team |
| Christina Peth | River Ridge Academy | Story Builders |
| Chandra Payne, Paula Whitaker & Emily Bryant | River Ridge Academy | Raider Garden |
| Christy McCullough, Jana Shea, Austin Peay, Rhonda Parker, Amanda Savage-Speegle, Dori Plejdrup & Anthrown Roberts | Robert Smalls International Academy | The Green House Classroom |
| Euguene Brugger | Whale Branch Middle School | News 2U Interactive Social Studies Program |
This story was originally published October 27, 2015 at 11:24 AM with the headline "Update: Grant-winning Beaufort County teachers, projects announced."