Everlena Ross, Board Member, Danville Regional Foundation and David Holshouser, Board Chair, Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce, presented ten education grants to Pittsylvania County Schools.

“Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt”
Kate Wells and Ava Baines
Tunstall Middle School

A novel read in language arts will be used to stimulate journal writing and develop reading comprehension.
 

Students will investigate and understand how electricity flows
through a series and parallel circuit and construct electromagnets.

“InDesign in the Classroom”
Pictured: Adrian Nester
Not pictured: Mariah Sells
Tunstall High School

Project will upgrade the school newspaper with software
capabilities allowing newer text and graphics. 
 

“Learning Facts with Rhymes ‘n’ Times”
Not pictured: Lynn Simpson, Wendy Reynolds, Denise Williams
Union Hall Elementary School

 Use of multi-sensory program designed to enable students to master multiplication with variety of hands-on activities and art.

“Reading….Oh the Places You Can Go”
Pictured: Amity Griffith
Not pictured:  Amy Scott
Tunstall Middle School

Students will be provided novels for required reading with science, civics, and math teachers incorporating lessons and activities enhanced by the novel.

“Jeopardy in the Classroom”
Tara Mills
Tunstall High School

Project will add a Jeopardy set to apply to more students
and to gear learning toward different learning styles.

“Geometric Modeling in the Classroom”
Pictured (center): Cheryl Williams

Not pictured:
Patricia Craft, Valerie Dawson, Cindy Shields,
Mildred Dearing
Gretna Middle School

Students will use geomodel folding shapes and interactive geoboards activity
books to provide visual and hands on activities to help develop geometric concepts.

“RazKids”
Nancy Merricks
Gretna Elementary School

 This is a computer based program with on-line books and reading quizzes. 
Students will read aloud with vocabulary and pronunciation support
and/or read with support.

“Measuring Matter Matters”
Linda Bowden, Katie Reynolds and Linda Gibson
Gretna Elementary School

 This will allow students an opportunity to experiment using various metric and customary measuring instruments within different learning environments.

Not pictured: Denise Dallas

“Ninth Grade Orientation and Transition Program”
Denise Dallas
Tunstall High School