AMERICUS — Becky Schabeck, a teacher in the Sumter County Schools System, was awarded a Bright Ideas Grant for $995. Bright Ideas is a grant program sponsored by the Flint Energies Foundation and Flint Energies. Awards are issued for innovative lessons and projects to energize learning.
Schabeck has purchased Letters Alive software, which is a supplemental reading program that uses research-based lessons to teach phonics. The software is presented to the students using a 3D augmented reality world incorporating animals, science and literacy.
Bright Ideas, a grant program sponsored by the Flint Energies Foundation and Flint Energies, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative, awards teachers money for innovative lessons and projects to energize learning in their students. In 2018, a total of $26,500 was awarded using participating Flint members’ small change through Operation Round Up. Since 2006, nearly $225,000 has been awarded to fund 227 projects reaching more than 6,800 students in Middle Georgia.
The Bright Ideas program distributes money as grants of up to $1,000 for teachers of grades K-12 at public or private schools located in the Co-op’s 17-county service territory. The grants are not for professional development or Smart Board purchases.