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Bright Ideas
With Coastal Electric Cooperative and its Foundation, teachers have the power to put their Bright Ideas to work.
Bright Ideas awards teachers money for creative, innovative lessons that light up students' love of learning.
$20,000 awarded to teachers by Bright Ideas Prize Patrol
Coastal Electric Cooperative and its Foundation awarded over $20,000 in Bright Ideas grants this year to school teachers in Bryan, Liberty and McIntosh County. The winning teachers were caught totally by surprise when the Bright Ideas Prize Patrol came to their classroom to present them with giant balloon bouquets, gifts and a big presentation check.
Earlier this year teachers were invited to apply to win grants of up to $2,000 each. The Bright Ideas program encourages teachers to develop creative, innovative programs that might not otherwise be funded thru the school system. A panel of independent judges reviews and scores the applications.
The Cooperative awarded 13 Bright Ideas grants this year. Since the program’s inception more than $90,000 has been awarded to local teachers. The grants are open to teachers instructing students in grades K-12.
Bright Ideas is made possible in part thru the voluntary donations of the Cooperative's Members who participate in Operation Round Up® -- Members allow their electric bills to be rounded up to the nearest whole dollar. Those nickels and dimes each month are turned over to The Coastal Electric Cooperative Foundation which oversees the fund. The Foundation uses the money to assist with food, health, shelter, safety, and educational needs within the community.
View our image gallery from the 2008 Bright Ideas Prize Patrol
Videos - Bright Ideas 2008
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Congratulations to our 2008 Bright Ideas Winners!!!
- Carol Hough of Waldo Pafford Elementary in Liberty County for her project Living Science!
- Michael Crosby of Lewis Frasier Middle School in Liberty County for his project Outdoor Science Classroom.
- Melissa Sands of Frank Long Elementary in Liberty County for her project Flipping for Digital Storytelling.
- Portia Randolph of Bradwell Institute in Liberty County for her project Alternatively Speaking.
- Joanne Remppel of Bradwell Institute in Liberty County for her project Black & White Photography.
- Amy Dilmar of Liberty County High School in Liberty County for her project Learn It, Live It, Love It.
- Patricia Jenkinson of Liberty County High School in Liberty County for her project GPS in the Geometry Classroom.
- Kimberly Boucher of Liberty Elementary in Liberty County for her project Science Outdoors.
- Carla Howard of Richmond Hill High School won a grant for her project Simulated Abuse Leads to Real Learning. She will use the money to purchase an interactive mannequin to introduce her Early Childhood Education students to the three preventable types of infant abuse -- fetal alcohol syndrome, the affects of drugs on an infant and shaken baby syndrome.
- Mary Jo Fina of Richmond Hill High School for her project, Cameras Across the Curriculum. Her class will use digital cameras and photo editing tools to produce photographic journals of local historical sites
- Debra Rowe of Todd Grant Elementary School in McIntosh County for her project, A Garden to Remember. Her second grade students will participate in creating a butterfly garden where they can watch the life cycles of plants and butterflies they are studying in Life Science.
- Leslie Poppell of Todd Grant Elementary School for her project, Hands-on Science Students will construct a weather station and chart the weather from day to day and compare the weather patterns throughout the seasons.
- Donna Kunkel of McIntosh County Academy for her project, World Shaking Events Decade Project This assessment will give the advanced world history students the opportunity to actually experience their decade by dressing in the costumes, researching their cultural events, and by representing their decade in a presentation to their peers, family and friends.