2005
Bright Ideas Grant Recipients
2004 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Imagination Education" Marie Swann - Washington
High School
"Our Learning Garden" Abbey Whitford - Bridgeton Elementary
"Taking Our Students Back in Time" Alice Faucette - Bath
Elementary
"Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, Frogs Do Too" Roxanne Beeman
& Shannon Zerniak -
Eastern Elementary
"Leapin' into Learning" Susan Tankard - Bath Elementary
"Taking Care of E-Business" Stacey Cole - Southside High School
"Lights, Camera, Action" Joyce Allen - Pungo Christian Academy
"Ring-Ding-Dong" Gregg Brookins - Pungo Christian Academy
"Learning Up Close" Teresa Patti - Pungo Christian Academy
"Under the Big Top" Joan Kellum - Eastern Elementary
2003 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Really Teaching Math" Jennifer Woolard -
Northside High School
"I'm All Ears" Donna Johnson - Pungo Christian Academy
"Learning By Volumes" Melissa Austin - Fred Anderson Elementary
"What the Owl Ate for Lunch" Mary Bilbro - John Tayloe
Elementary
"Writing Through a Microscope" Christy Caroon - Pamlico County
Primary
"Education for 800 Please!" Stacey Cole - Southside High School
"No News is NOT Good News" Gladys Howell - Northside High
School
"It's Elementary" Rima Jakub - Bath Elementary
"Make Math & Science Easy for Me" Tina Clark - Pungo
Christian Academy
"But This is Math Class!" Barbara Jones - Aurora Middle School
"Be a Survivor" Nancy LaBarge - Northside High School
"NC Stock Market Simulation" Gwendolyn Lee-Tyson, Aurora Middle
& SW Snowden
"Check it Out!" Alida Bron Sawyer - John Tayloe Elementary
"Skills with Thrills!" Shelia Smith - Pamlico County Primary
"Celebration of Flight" Bob Waters - Columbia High School
"There is Life Down There" Connie Benson - Pungo Christian
Academy
2002 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Read On!" Debbie Varner - Pines Elementary
"Publication Station" Amy Barsanti - Pines Elementary
"Hatching Eggs In The Classroom" Carol Wainwright - Chocowinity
Middle
"Let's Get Wired" Eddie Cahoon - Northside High
"Getting the Salt Out" Sonya Roughton - Chocowinity Middle
"Geometric Concepts Through Quilting" Barbara Jones - Aurora
Middle
"Exploring Energy & Power" Laura Hummell, lead teacher -
Manteo Middle
"Panthers Pun Around!" Gladys Howell, lead teacher - Northside
High
"Teacher, Is It a Rembrandt?" Donna Johnson - Pungo Christian
Academy
"Tessellmania" June Zurface - Aurora Middle
"What's Bugging the 1st Graders?" Jackie Butcher - Terra Ceia
"Solving Earth's Puzzles" Jerry Meadows & Thomas Tharps -
Mattamuskeet High
"Science Too!" Roxanne Beeman - Eastern Elementary
"Know This" Isis Woods & Johnnie Hawkins - West Craven
Middle
"History Alive" Andrea Sawyer - Northside High
2001 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Science is Alive" Connie Benson - Pungo
Christian Academy
"PCPS Songbook 2000" Dr. Frank Tatem - Pamlico County Primary
"Writing in Modern Times" Ilene McClain - Bath Elementary
"Baby Think It Over" Vicki Harrell - Southside High School
"Throwing, Turning & Pulling" Penny Paul - Washington High
School
"Mind Storming Robotics" Darlene Parent - Mattamuskeet Middle
School
"CDE: Create, Design & Exhibit" Sandra Hoag & Scott
Smith - Arapahoe Charter School
"Write On!" Alida Bron Sawyer - John C. Tayloe Elementary
"Accelerated Math" Holly Potter - SW Snowden Elementary
"Books In A Bag" Debbie Poe, Betty Burleson & Kathleen
Ormond - Northeast Elementary
"Kindergarten Math Counts" Roxanne Beeman - Eastern Elementary
"Learning by Listening" Paula Ange - Pines Elementary
2000 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Accelerated Math" Ilene McClain, Margaret
Woolard and Lynette Keel - Bath Elementary
"Racing with Math" Cherry Rouse and Darleen Smith - Beaufort
County Elementary
"Research Mysteries" Mary Bilbro - John Cotton Tayloe
Elementary
"Ceramics for Students" John Lohman - Southside High School
"Homemade PortaScope Telescope" James White - Southside High
School
"Listen to me Read" Lynn Whittington - Chocowinity Primary
School
"Accelerated Reader" April Henderson - Pungo Christian Academy
"Classroom Jeopardy" Melissa Austin - Fred Anderson Elementary
"Vermicomposting in the Classroom" Georgette Rush - Fred
Anderson Elementary
"Schoolwide Enrichment Days" Nancy Piner, Hal Holloman, Claudia
Bemis, Susan Howard, Melissa Austin and Kathy Fitzgerald - Fred Anderson Elementary
"Composting" Joyce Hill - Arapahoe Charter School
"Experience with Experiments" Jerry Meadows - Mattamuskeet High
School
"The Art of Bouldering" Jennie Adams, Emmy Casey, Ann Law,
Maureen Donald, Scott Smith and Chevonne Davis - Arapahoe Charter School
"Ocracoke School Surfing Class" Joan O'Neal & Gary Zbel -
Ocracoke School
1999 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Making the Internet Work for You" Brenda
Respess - Terra Ceia Christian School
"Storytime Mathematics" Cherry Croom Rouse - Beaufort County
Elementary
"Accelerated Math" Beverly Holt - Bath Elementary School
"Education Should be a Racquet" Ilene McClain - Bath Elementary
"Classic Literature for Exceptional Students" Rima Jakub -
Aurora High School
"America at School" Nancy Wilson - Bridgeton Elementary
"Creepy, Crawly Critter Connections" Laura Bilbro-Berry -
Tayloe Elementary
"SOS: Save Our Students" Alida Bron Sawyer - Tayloe Elementary
"Sunshine Classroom Library" Kitty Hodgepeth - Pines Elementary
"Yes Sir! Thank you, Ma'am" Jennie Adams - Arapahoe Charter
School
"Math & Science Discovery Center" Tina Clark & Lori
Dozier - Pungo Christian Academy
"Accelerated Reader" Marcy Morgan - Pungo Christian Academy
"Integrating Technology & Improving Writing Skills" Melissa
Austin - Fred Anderson Elementary
"Discovering North Carolina" Mary Kay Bradshaw - Washington
County Union
"Taking a Byte Into Technology" Alta Harrison Allen - Pines
Elementary
1998 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Mission Possible" Marie Swann - Washington
High School
"Baby Think It Over" Ann Basnight - Northside High School
"Interviewing Ocracoke's WWII Veterans" Alton Ballance -
Ocracoke School
"AlphaSmart" Melissa Austin - Fred Anderson Elementary
"From the Dismal Swamp to the Atomic Bomb" Jennie Adams -
Arapahoe Charter School
"The Art of History" Ron Clark - Snowden Elementary
"Mobile Math" Lisa Chestnutt, Thomas Midgette, Linda Woolard -
Davis Elementary
"Connections" Lois Moye - Pamlico County High School
"Are We Getting Enough Oxygen" Ceresy Jenkins - Chocowinity
High School
"A Story Quilt" Emmy Casey - Arapahoe Charter School
1997 Bright Ideas
Grant Recipients
"Blast Off to Learning" Robert Waters - Dare
County Schools
"Books Alive" Alida Sawyer, Dale Baker, Rose Ann Bass - John
Cotton Tayloe Elementary
"Read to Me" Laura Bilbro-Berry - John Cotton Tayloe Elementary
"Real World Explorations" Jane Rouse - Belhaven Elementary
"The Science Around Us" Jennie Adams - Arapahoe Charter School
"Yearbook of Learning" Ron Clark - Snowden Elementary
"Growing Bright" Lisa Chestnutt, Thomas Midgette, Linda Woolard
- Davis Elementary
"Pressed for Time" Gail Watts - Pamlico High School |