Local school media specialist wins career-enrichment grant
Sonya Terry, media specialist at Pathways Elementary School, has won a 2005-06 LSTA Career Enrichment Grant for $948 to attend the American Association of School Libraries (AASL) Conference, which takes place Oct. 5 to Oct. 9 in Pittsburgh.
Career Enrichment Grants is a statewide program to aid North Carolina library staff by funding participation in selected professional conferences.
Grant funds will be awarded to support library staff attendance at eleven other conferences in 2005-06.
Elementary school begins weather-watching project
Students from Frank Porter Graham Elementary School and the Orange County HAM radio club raised a HAM radio tower on the school roof Saturday to begin a weather observation project.
Meg Millard, a fourth and fifth-grade teacher at the school, was one of 50 teachers across the country to win a $10,000 Toyota TAPESTRY Grant in February 2005.
Students will observe and measure local weather patterns at the school, then use the HAM radio to compare their findings to worldwide patterns.
