In addition, a grant to benefit all teachers in the system was funded for $1,420.

Members of the Grants Committee who determined the awards are Aliquippa Allen, chairman; Amie Attaway, DHS; Kim Easley-Bell, DMS; Patricia Bolden, USJ, and Amy Hasty, WES.

The committee called on the expertise of the school systems technology coordinator, Jeremiah Dial, for the cost and specifications of technology requests.

Since the Foundations beginning in 1993, it has awarded $856,483.26 to education professionals in the Demopolis school system for projects, programs and equipment that cannot be paid for through the systems budget.

Grants are financed through Foundation memberships, fund-raisers and interest on investments.

Demopolis High School

Cynthia Whitlock, The Power of Print 2011, $996.03 partially funded for two rolls of poster paper and one roll of laminating film.

Cynthia Whitlock, Technology: Keep on Rolling!, fully funded for $6,800, for a portable set of classroom computers.

Cynthia Whitlock, Keeping Readers Reading, $1,821.50 fully funded to increase the contemporary fiction collection in the library.

Rachel Etheridge, Surfing the Math Waves with the Promethean Board, $1,958.43 fully funded for a classroom SMART Board.

Connie Boutwell, Continuing Access to Technology, $957.54 fully funded for replacement lamps for LCD projectors.

Demopolis Middle School

Tracy Pearson, Life Steps for Students, $899.40 fully funded, for a video series to enhance character development.

Coty Geohagan and Julie Massey, The SMART Revolution, $3,071.34 partially funded for a classroom SMART Board.

Megan Edmonds, Educating with ELMO, $1,500 partially funded for an ELMO visual presenter.

Charlene Jackson, Creating Interactive Classrooms with Smartboards, $2,939.98 fully funded for a classroom SMART Board.

Patricia McVay, Smartboard Mathematician, $2,939.98 fully funded for a classroom SMART Board.

Andrea Turberville, Smartboard Mathematician, $2,939.98 fully funded for a classroom SMART Board.

Derrick Hester, Launching Research and Intervention with Laptops, $5,400 fully funded for laptop computers.

Dana Freeman, Give Me Five!.

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