
AC Reynolds Middle School
Project: Keeping it Clean
Featured Teacher: Jennifer Williams
Project Summary: Students grades 6-8 will learn where germs reside in the school. The students will also learn effective hand washing techniques in order to prevent disease transmission. The 8th grade students will be actively involved in teaching the other grade levels about effective hand washing techniques.
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Brevard Middle School
Project: Lights, Camera, Action
Featured Teachers: Christina Dodson & Annie Talley
Project Summary: Initiation of the development of a broadcasting studio for the school. This addition will allow the students to broadcast the morning announcements by way of closed circuit televisions that are already set up. Enrichment classes will be taught broadcasting. The dream/vision is to eventually have a fully operational broadcasting studio.
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Davidson River School
Project: Stone Age Technology
Featured Teacher: Joseph Russo
Project Summary: Purchase flint knapping supplies and other instructional materials for a hands-on lesson that teaches World History students how to make arrowheads, axe heads, and other Stone Age tools.
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Jonathan Valley Elementary
Project: Measurement Matters
Featured Teachers: Jon Serenius and Carla Billups
Project Summary: Students will use a variety of tools and technology to gather data, using mathematics to support science, in the content areas of: water, weather, force and motion, and ecosystems. Some of this data will be used in citizen science projects.
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North Henderson High School
Project: Passive Solar Heating Systems Development
Featured Teachers: Gary Massey, Gary Blackwell and Hale Durant
Principal: Frank Edney
Project Summary: Students will design and build passive solar heating units based on several design models. Finished products will be monitored to determine their effectiveness and need for refinement. After refinement, the units will be used to supplement electric heating in the school greenhouses and other areas of the school.
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Pisgah High School
Project: Electric Wheelie Car Build
Featured Teachers: Sam Warren, Principal Danny Miller, Chip Singleton
Project Summary: The electric wheelie car will be built in the career department. It will involve at least 3 curriculum areas and their students. The car kit will be purchased from the Shop Rat Foundation for the students to design, machine, weld, wire, and assemble.
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Rosman Middle School
Project: Calder Mobiles
Featured Teacher: Elizabeth Ballard
Principal: Greg Carter
Project Summary: Use a class set of fiction books to inspire the art students to make mobiles and art pieces in the style of Alexander Calder, the featured artist of the book being studied.
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AC Reynolds Middle School
Project: Read, Infer, Create
Teacher: Rose Szabo
Project Summery: Students will create a miniature scene, from their book, using pre-cut foam core for book construction. The miniature will be in 3-D, scaled to 1/12”. Students will design their interpretation of the book cover, and write a descriptive paragraph of their scene, inferring details from their book.