Six JCSS Educators Awarded Bright Ideas Grants

Six educators within the Jackson County School System have been awarded Bright Ideas Grants from Jackson EMC. 

East Jackson High School eighth grade teacher Nikki Dowdy was awarded $1,612 for her Georgia Cartography Lab, while East Jackson Middle School's Vikki Huff was awarded $2,000 for Physics in Structural Engineering. Legacy Knoll Middle School's April Balenger was awarded $1,530 for her Literacy Forensics. 

Three educators from West Jackson Middle School were awarded grants; Haylee Smith for $1,120 for Beyond "Night": Connecting History to Today's Students, Tonia Harbin for $1,470 for Elements Bring The Periodic Table To Life, and Ka Charand for $1,765 for Energy Transformation Stations.

Bright Ideas is a grant program from Jackson EMC that awards funds for creative and innovative classroom projects developed by middle school teachers. This grant program provides funds to state certified educators in a middle school in Jackson EMC’s service area.