The Spring 2011 BEP/Nissan Teacher Mini-Grant Awards Breakfast, held Wednesday, May 11 at Stones River Country Club, recognized 49 Rutherford County teachers from 25 schools who received awards for outstanding project proposals.

The Business Education Partnership Foundation at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce is pleased to congratulate the following teachers for their innovative ideas which won their classrooms a BEP/Nissan Teacher Mini-Grant for Spring 2011.

The grants provide up to $500 per request for classroom project ideas from Rutherford County teachers. This season, the BEP received 164 applications and awarded 53 grants to 49 teachers in 25 Rutherford County and Murfreesboro City Schools.
 
Awards were presented to teachers at the BEP/Nissan Mini-Grant Awards Breakfast on May 11th at the Stones River Country Club.

Award presenters included Lee Rennick, BEP executive director; Emil Hassan, BEP Board Chair; Susan Brennan, Nissan Vice-President of Manufacturing, Smyrna; Julie Corcoran, Nissan Director Projects-Battery Plant; Greg Jones, Nissan Director of Monozukuri Human Resources Smyrna & Decherd Manufacturing.
 

Teacher, Grant Name, School
Toni Downs
Math Attack
Black Fox

Courtney Pragel
Spanning the Globe from Baker Road
Brown's Chapel Elementary

Felecia Jackson
Chemistry is Cooking
Cason Lane Academy

Dawn Crawford
Frog Pond
Cedar Grove Elementary

Kandee Dunn
Project Orbit
Cedar Grove Elementary

Tyson  Hoppe
Seeing Sounds and Hearing Science
Cedar Grove Elementary

Tammy Lancaster
Metamorphosis Mayhem
Cedar Grove Elementary

Kim Raybon
Keeping it Green in First Grade
Cedar Grove Elementary

Lisa Snider
Capture Math
Cedar Grove Elementary

Marc Guthrie
Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
Central Magnet School

Lauren Lane
Oh Weather, Where Art Thou?
Central Magnet School

Brent Meadows
The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
Central Magnet School

Jennifer Clarke
Christiana Wildcat Weather
Christiana Elementary School

Debbie Burton
It's a Date!
David Youree Elementary

Stacey Burt
Sine of the Times
Discovery School at Reeves-Rogers

Kristy Mall
Up, Up, and Away!
Discovery School at Reeves-Rogers

Megan Ferens
EXCELLent Cytology
Eagleville School

Terri Horn
Growing Up Gardeners
LaVergne Primary

Jennifer Pirtle
Today and Beyond!
LaVergne Primary

Holly Sutton
Science Learning Centers
LaVergne Primary

Molly Swann
Caring for Cool Creatures
LaVergne Primary

Elena Burgess
Mama Mia! Fraction Garden Pizzeria
McFadden School of Excellence

Christa Campbell
Keepin' It Warm in the Winter
McFadden School of Excellence

Lisa Carney
Take a Ride with Science
McFadden School of Excellence

Lisa Carney
Composting Crazy!
McFadden School of Excellence

Cindy Cliche
Planting the Seeds for Math and Science
McFadden School of Excellence

Kathy Daughterty
Scent-sational Gardening
McFadden School of Excellence

Lark Petty
I Spy…Urban Birds!
McFadden School of Excellence

Robin Newell
Butterfly Buddies
Mitchell Neilson Primary

Jonathan Griffith
Stained Glass: A Geometric Art
Oakland High School

Barbara Turner
2nd Annual Take Charge of Your Finances
Oakland High School

Web Hutchings
LEGO Architecture
Oakland Middle School

Lucas Holma
Acids, Hormones, and Roots… Oh Why?
Riverdale High School

Emily Marshall
Compost Happens
Riverdale High School

Emily Marshall
No Whey!
Riverdale High School

Kevin Vaughn
Fire and Ice Demo Day
Riverdale High School

Perry Louden
Inventing with da Vinci
Rockvale Middle School

Kim Hinton
Dissolved Oxygen Content of the Stones River
Siegel High School

Justin Stanford
Physics K'NEXion
Siegel High School

Barbara Dickerson
Spice Up Learning
Siegel Middle School

Allison Riebel
Learning with Puppets
Smyrna Elementary School

Cara Young
Color from Natural Dyes
Smyrna High School

Cara Young
Paper Making
Smyrna High School

Diane Brand
Stomp, Smyrna Style
Smyrna Middle School

Cassandra Cowan
OUR VersaTile Games
Smyrna Middle School

Garry Gannon
Rocketry
Smyrna Middle School

Garry Gannon
Custom Cruiser
Smyrna Middle School

Carin Miranda
The First Drop is Always the Biggest
Smyrna Middle School

Joanne Elliott
Wizards of Weather
Smyrna Primary School

Amy Cunningham
Cooking with Class
Stewarts Creek Elementary

Amanda Henry
Succeeding Students Through Art
Walter Hill Elementary School

Gina McClanahan
Math by Design
Walter Hill Elementary School

Kim Bohn
An Ode to George Odom
Wilson Elementary School