2. School

2006 Bright Ideas

Coastal Electric awarded $20,000 to teachers over a 2-day period. Check out the fun we had!!!
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Frank Long Elementary School Teacher Wanda Smith won a $1,435 grant. Pictured with her are members of the Bright Ideas Prize Team who came to visit her and share the good news. The team includes: Coastal Electric employees Cecilia Stender, left of Smith, Becky Tharpe, right of Smith and Clint Durrence, behind Tharpe; Foundation Director Barbara Smith, next to Stender, Board Director Steve Mullice and Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell.
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Frank Long Elementary School Teacher Wanda Smith won a $1,435 grant. Pictured with her are members of the Bright Ideas Prize Team who came to visit her and share the good news. The team includes: Coastal Electric employees Cecilia Stender, left of Smith, Becky Tharpe, right of Smith and Clint Durrence, behind Tharpe; Foundation Director Barbara Smith, next to Stender, Board Director Steve Mullice and Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell.

  • Wow! Melissa McCallar won a $1,575 grant to buy equipment so students can create an electronic portfolio of their work. Now, they will have a digital academic portfolio so as they move from one grade to the next they can show teachers their progress.
  • The gang is all here. Coastal Electric employees Anne Cordeiro, Cecilia Stender, Clint Durrence, Mark Bolton and Becky Tharpe, Board director Steve Mullice and Foundation director Barbara Smith listen as CEO Whit Hollowell interviews winning teacher Melissa McCallar.
  • Celebration - Melissa McCallar is congratulated by the Bright Ideas Prize Team, employees and directors of Coastal Electric Cooperative and its Foundation, and students on her winning a $1,575 grant.
  • Celestine Barrett, a teacher at Jordye Bacon Elementary, was surprised at an unrelated school assembly, with news that she had won a $975 grant to create a student newspaper at her school.
  • Celestine Barrett with a Liberty County High School Panther, and members of the Bright Ideas Prize Team, employees and directors of Coastal Electric Cooperative and its Foundation.
  • Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell interviews Celestine Barrett at Joryde Bacon Elementary.
  • Anne Cordeiro, the director of communications at Coastal Electric Cooperative, congratulates Celestine Barrett on her win. With them is Froggie, who travels often to schools.
  • The filming continues. The Bright Ideas Prize Team spent two days delivering news to teachers. Both days the team had a role to play in creating newscasts for CEC news.
  • Frank Long Elementary School teacher Wanda Smith tells Coastal Electric CEO about her project Epal Explorers. Soon students will be communicating with students around the world.
  • Frank Long Elementary School Teacher Wanda Smith won a $1,435 grant. Pictured with her are members of the Bright Ideas Prize Team who came to visit her and share the good news. The team includes: Coastal Electric employees Cecilia Stender, left of Smith, Becky Tharpe, right of Smith and Clint Durrence, behind Tharpe; Foundation Director Barbara Smith, next to Stender, Board Director Steve Mullice and Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell.
  • Frank Long Elementary School teacher Becky Busby won a $1,270 grant to buy high-tech microscopes for her students. Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell asks her about the project while students look on.
  • Frank Long Elementary teacher Becky Busby is surrounded by members of the Bright Ideas Prize team, employees and directors of Coastal Electric Cooperative and its Foundation, and her students. Busby won a $1,270 grant for Microscope Mania.
  • Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell explains to Bright Ideas winner Patricia Moody that as a Touchstone Energy Cooperative one of the co-op's core values is innovation. Hollowell said Moody's project, Natural Resources Rock, is a perfect example of innovation.
  • Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell congratulates Patricia Moody on winning a $1,960 grant for her project, Natural Resources Rock!
  • Students in Patricia Moody's class at Frank Long Elementary and members of the Bright Ideas Prize Team, employees and directors of Coastal Electric Cooperative congratulate Moody on winning a grant.
  • Members of the Bright Ideas Prize Team, employees and directors of Coastal Electric Cooperative and its Foundation, congratulate Bright Ideas winner Susan Fennell on her winning a $1,445 grant for her project, Sounds of Learning.
  • The Bright Ideas Prize Team filming at Waldo Pafford Elementary School.
  • Bright Ideas Prize Team member Becky Tharpe with a bouquet of ballons. The Prize Team comes with balloons and gifts for the winning teachers. The day is all about celebrating the winners.
  • Coastal Electric CEO Whit Hollowell congratulates Nicole Carter, a teacher at Waldo Pafford, on winning a $1,330 grant to do a student newspaper.
  • Bright Ideas winner Nicole Carter with other teachers at Waldo Pafford and members of the Bright Ideas Prize Team. Carter and the other teachers were in training that day at Midway Middle School. The Prize Team tracked Carter down to deliver news that she won a grant.
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